Accomplishments: Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV
Dr. Deborah Kuhl's (Medicine) work as a trauma surgeon and researcher is prominently is featured in a lengthy New York Times article about the disturbing increase in deaths and injuries from traffic crashes throughout the United States. The Times piece, "Why Are American Drivers So Deadly?" traces Kuhl's early career, operating on crash victims,…
Dr. Jyoti Mago (Dental) presented a poster with Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) during the American Public Health Association meeting titled "Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and Threats Analysis of ChatGPT in Oral Health Education." The authors concluded ChatGPT has the promise to augment the oral healthcare…
Michael Dial (IHS Doctoral Alumni), under the mentorship of Graham McGinnis (Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences) published a research article titled, "Effects of time-restricted exercise on activity rhythms and exercise-induced adaptations in the heart," in the journal Scientific Reports. Co-authors include current and former students from…
Kavita Batra (Medicine), Jagdish Khubchandani (New Mexico State University), Srikanta Banerjee (Walden University), and others published a study, "Risk of mortality among people with rheumatoid arthritis and depression," in the Egyptian Rheumatologist journal. This study found that depression increases the likelihood of mortality among those…
Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) has coauthored an article titled, “Understanding the knowledge, attitudes, practices (KAP) of healthy eating among adolescents in Chongqing, China: An empirical study utilizing structural equation modeling (SEM),” in the journal Nutrients (Impact factor 5.9) with coauthors from…
Gregory Brown, Kavita Batra, Emily Dorin, Raveena Bakhru, Andrew Han, Arianna Palermini, Robert Sottile, Sherine Khanbijian, and Michael Hower (all Medicine) co-published an article, "Comparing AIT and EFT in Reduction of Negative Emotions Associated with a Past Memory: A Randomized Control Study," in the Psychology journal.
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Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) coauthored an article titled, “Association between body weight misperception and snacking patterns among adolescents: a population-based cross-sectional study,” in collaboration with colleagues from Chongqing Medical University in the journal, BMC Public Health (Impact factor 4.5). The…
Jessica Tay and Nicole Angel (both Medicine) worked "The ABCs of Newborn Resuscitation" and "Transport-Easy as 1-2-3" programs. They have been presented to paramedic students and EMS providers in Clark County and Latin America (the Dominican Republic and Guatemala). A poster from the project was presented at the American Academy of Pediatrics…
Jeffrey Martin, Henry Krasner, Crysty-Ann Olaco, Kavita Batra and Dale Netski (all Medicine) along with Nicolette Harmon (Public Health) co-published an abstract of their upcoming study, "Community Level Correlates of COVID-19 Booster Vaccine Hesitancy in the United States: A Cross-Sectional Analysis," in Proceedings of the 1st International…
Dr. Deborah Kuhls (Medicine) and a team of researchers at UNLV’s Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine have been analyzing crash, injury, and non-adjudicated citation data for over a decade to inform prevention and policy initiatives. Findings are published in quarterly TREND newsletters. The information provides a deeper understanding of risk-taking…
Charlton Bassett, Hunter Triplett, Keegan Lott (all Medicine) with Katherine M. Howard and Karl Kingsley (both Dental) recently published their study, "Differential Expression of MicroRNA (MiR-27, MiR-145) among Dental Pulp Stem Cells (DPSCs) Following Neurogenic Differentiation Stimuli," in the MDPI journal, Biomedicines.
Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) published a paper titled, “Asynchronous Online Teaching of Research Methods to Graduate Students: Application of the Multi-Theory Model of Health Behavior Change,” in ICERI 2023 Proceedings. The article is a case study of a successful pedagogical application of his fourth-generation…