Accomplishments: Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV

Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) coauthored an article titled, “Application of the multi-theory model to determine predictors of initiating and sustaining stress management behaviors in undergraduate college students,” in the Journal of Public Health in the Deep South in collaboration with coauthors from the…
Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine), as a senior collaborator, coauthored an article titled, “Global, regional, and national burden of meningitis, its risk factors, and aetiologies, 1990–2023: A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2023,” in the journal,The Lancet Neurology (impact factor: 45.5).…
Dr. Deborah A. Kuhls (Medicine) was inducted as a Master of Critical Care Medicine at the 37th Annual Convocation of the American College of Critical Care Medicine.
Kenneth Izuora (Medicine) co-authored a clinical practice guidance document summarizing evidence-based strategies to assist healthcare professionals with the diagnosis and management of adults with pre-diabetes and diabetes. This publication is the 2026 update to the American Association of Clinical Endocrinology Diabetes Management Algorithm.
Dr Vivek Pamulapati (Surgery; Medicine) presented a quickshot titled, "Unplanned Extubation in Critically Ill Trauma Patients: Risk Factors and Clinical Outcomes," at the 2026 Society of Critical Care Medicine's Critical Care Congress in Chicago, Illinois. This study evaluated the risk factors and morbidity associated with self-extubation in…
Sarah Hartzell, Ph.D., (BeHERE NV) was a guest on the Public Health Epidemiology Conversations Podcast (Episode #449). In the conversation she discusses the behavioral health workforce shortage and the importance of engaging with people, especially youth, about considering the pursuit of a career in behavioral health. 
Sarah Kazemeini, Kendra N. Coleman, Marianne Estrada, and Kavita Batra (all Medicine) have published their work titled “Institutional Efforts to Support First-Generation, Low-Income (FGLI) Medical Students in the United States” in the Journal of Medicine, Surgery, and Public Health. This work systematically maps existing evidence on…
Min Ju Kang and Dr. Aroucha Vickers (both Medicine), presented a poster titled, “One Year, Two Eyes, One Diagnosis: B-Cell Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma,” at the North American Neuro-Ophthalmology Society 2026 Annual Meeting. The poster describes a case of sequential bilateral optic neuropathy in a 76-year-old patient, ultimately diagnosed as B-cell non-…
Dr Brandon Karcher (Medicine) and his co-authors in the Department of Surgery published a challenge in trauma and acute care surgery case report titled, "Management of devastating mesenteric trauma leading to short gut syndrome," in Trauma Surgery and Acute Care Open.
Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) presented a virtual oral paper titled, “The genesis of Perfection Quotient (PQ) in health promotion research,” at the 4th International Congress on Behavioral & Social Science Research (ICBSSR 2026) held in Rome, Italy. Perfection Quotient is a novel behavioral model developed by…
Sharmistha Roy (Social and Behavioral Health), Ashis Roy (Epidemiology and Biostatistics), and Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) published an article titled, “Multilevel mental health determinants among college students: A social ecological scoping review,” in the journal, Mental Health & Prevention (Impact factor…
Yonsu Kim (Healthcare Administration and Policy), Ji Won Yoo (Internal Medicine), Chris Cochran (Healthcare Administration and Policy), and Sheniz Moonie (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) published an article "Dynamic associations of neighborhood social and physical environment with ED visits for asthma: A spatial change score analysis" in Journal…