Accomplishments: Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV
Dr. David Glenn Weismiller (Medicine) was invited to be a part of the American Academy of Family Physicians Annual Conference on Adult Medicine in Las Vegas earlier this month. He presented on the care and wellness of transgender persons. As of 2018, 1.4 million U.S. adults identify as transgender. Accessing health care can be challenging for…
Drs. Bobby Brar and Pooja Patil (both Medicine) recently had their research on the use of marijuana during pregnancy published in The Journal of Maternal-Fetal & Neonatal Medicine. Brar and Patil both are resident physicians.
The study, co-authored by UNLV School of Medicine faculty physicians Drs. Michael Gardner, James Alexander, and Nora…
A number of UNLV communicators and other staff members received high marks from the Las Vegas Valley Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America during the recent Pinnacle Awards ceremony. The Las Vegas chapter sends the entries to judges outside the local market for evaluation to provide the most objective evaluation and determination of…
Jay Shen (Health Care Administration), Catherine Dingley (Nursing), Ji Yoo (Medicine) and Sfurti Maheshwari and Kalyn Frost (both Public Health), and Soo Kim (Journalism and Media Studies), along with community partners Duy Nguyen, Octavio Posada, and Weiss Solano from the Asian Community Development Council, recently presented at the 6th Public…
Ruby Nugent and Aidy Weeks (both Libraries) will be presenting during a webinar, "Tips and Tricks for Successful Onsite Academic Interviews," sponsored by the African American Medical Librarians Alliance Caucus of the Medical Library Association on Oct. 30 at 2 p.m. The free webinar is the second part of a series focused on empowering current…
Rachel Kelly, Elli Tian, and Dr. David Howard (all Medicine) presented their research at the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists 2019 Annual Districts V, VII & IX meeting in Kapalua, Hawaii, earlier this month. The project was, "A Comparison of Nutritional Content of Prescription versus Nonprescription Prenatal Vitamins." Kelly…
Dr. David Glenn Weismiller (Medicine) presented at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Family Physicians held in Philadelphia last month. His presentation, "Adult Immunizations. Are You Ready for your Vaccine Today?" addressed the ongoing challenges of vaccine declination in the United States. Vaccines are considered one of the…
Danielle Jones (Medicine) has had her research published in the American Journal of Perinatology Reports. Co-authors are Dr. David L. Howard (Medicine), who is her research mentor; Samantha O. Haikal; and Megan D. Whitham.The project, "Universal versus Risk-Based Management of Unknown Group B Streptococcus Status at Term," compared the…
Kenneth Izuora (Medicine), Edwin Oh (NIPM), Jeffrey Ebersole (Dental), and Arpita Basu (Kinesiology & Nutrition Sciences), along with Aaron Calvano, '19 BS Kinesiology, published an invited review in Food & Function based on their ongoing collaborations on the role of dietary bioactive compounds in diabetes, insulin resistance, and…
Mellanye Lackey (Libraries) co-authored an article, "Building the Systematic Core in an Academic Health Sciences Library," published in the Journal of the Medical Library Association. She is director of the Health Sciences Library.
Dr. Joshua J. Goldman (Medicine) was awarded a Clinical Research Leaders Scholarship from the Plastic Surgery Foundation (PSF). According to the organization, "By offering this initiative, the PSF intends to develop and strengthen a future workforce of plastic surgery researchers who are equipped to lead their field. The initiative…
Buddha Dawn, Lin Zhao, Guangming Cheng, Magdy Girgis, Jeryl Hauptman and Yanjuan Yang (all Medicine) are members of the research team whose noteworthy work recently was recognized in Circulation Research, the official journal of the American Heart Association. The team, headed by Dr. Dawn, studies the use of stem cell therapy for heart…