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Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV News

The Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV is becoming a world-class center for medical education, patient care, and research. We aim to prepare Nevada's doctors with the most innovative and technologically advanced forms of medical training while also forming community partnerships to serve the healthcare needs of our diverse and urban population.

Current Medicine News

Marc J. Kahn, MD, MBA, dean of the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine, giving his State of the School Address on April 15, 2024.
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Faculty and staff joined the dean of the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at his fourth State of the School Address, the second one to be hosted at the Medical Education Building.

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UNLV study uses wastewater surveillance model to detect, manage emerging viruses and offer clues on public health challenges of vulnerable populations.

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Business and Community |

Dedicated to helping underserved communities in Nevada, UNLV Health is leading transformative health care while educating and training Nevada’s future health care practitioners.

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Faculty respond to the mental health crisis with multiple programs focused on addressing the shortages and challenges in Nevada on April 5.

Michael Patros, Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV Class of 2024 President, after finding out where he matched for residency training during Match Day.
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The medical school celebrated the class of 2024 matches and welcomed 87 residents to their graduate medical education programs.

Dr. Ovunc Bardakcioglu (left), associate professor and chief of colorectal surgery, and class of 2025 medical student Jessica Fields during a robotic surgery simulation training.
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The development of a UNLV Academic Health Center will provide high-value quality care for the community, a source of economic diversity for our economy, and cutting-edge research.

Medicine In The News

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If you haven't heard the terms autosexual or autoeroticism, you're not alone. These two sexual identities and their meanings are still relatively unknown and rarely discussed. But in recent years, there's been more representation of autosexuals who experience autoeroticism in mainstream media.

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We're committed to digging deeper into the health care issues affecting our community. Here in southern Nevada, we face a major physician shortage. However, there's good news. The Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV is taking major steps toward bringing new doctors into the valley.

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Increasing manmade and natural disasters require new thinking about the role of health care staff, effective triaging, community partnerships, and security.

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Making health care more accessible for our under-served communities is the goal of a collaboration between the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV and Volunteers in Medicine of Southern Nevada.

Nevada Business

A portion of the spin4 crohn’s & colitis cures event will support the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV to help expand resources for IBD patients in Southern Nevada.

Las Vegas Review Journal

It doesn’t appear on the calendar. There are no shopping days devoted to it. No one even remotely looks forward to its arrival. But for those afflicted by its wrath, allergy season is as real as any other time of year, bringing with it sneezes, runny noses and fatigue instead of glad tidings and good feelings.

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Recent Medicine Accomplishments

School of medicine student Raul Marquez, internal medicine resident Dr. Taha Shaikh, DO, and internal medicine faculty member Dr. Badrunissa Hanif presented a clinical vignette poster - "A Rare Cutaneous Manifestation of Syphilis in an Immunocompetent Patient" at National American Conference of Physicians (ACP) in Boston. Raul Marquez was the…
Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) and Asma Awan (Social and Behavioral Health) have been awarded a grant titled, “Reducing Implicit Bias among Emergency Room (ER) Staff” by Sarasota Memorial Health Care System, Florida. The grant will develop a training program based on Sharma’s multi-theory model (MTM) of health…
Kavita Batra (Medicine) with Ravi Batra (Public Health) co-authored a study, "Global, regional, and national incidence and mortality burden of non-COVID-19 lower respiratory infections and etiologies, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021," which was recently published in Lancet. Ravi Batra is a doctoral…
Irma Corral (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; Psychiatry and Behavioral Health) has been elected to a second term as vice president of the Nevada Psychological Association - Southern Region Board. The Nevada Psychological Association is a 501c(6) non-profit professional association representing licensed psychologists and others affiliated with…
Dr. Kenneth Izuora (Medicine) presented findings from the UNLV Health Immunization Workflow Assessment project to the Council of Medical Specialty Societies during its Quality Improvement and Data Leads meeting held on March 26, 2024. UNLV Health is one of the health systems selected from across the country to participate in this Quality…
Kian Habashi (Medicine) presented a poster, "The Need for Teaching Skills Training During Pre-Clerkship Years of Medical School," at the 26th Annual Graduate and Professional Student Research Forum at UNLV. The study by Habashi, in collaboration with Kencie Ely and Rosalie Kalili (both Medicine), aimed to integrate teaching competencies into the…