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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.
Campus News |

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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Campus News |

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.
Campus News |

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.
Business and Community |

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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All 12 Women's National Basketball Association teams have a team of trained orthopedic surgeons and physicians providing care for them.

Cosmopolitan

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.

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Recent Medicine Accomplishments

Michael Dicaro, Brianna Yee, KaChon Lei, Kavita Batra and Buddhadeb Dawn (All Medicine) published an abstract for their study "Mesenchymal Stem Cell Therapy for Treatment of Acute Myocardial Infarction: A Systematic Review," in the Journal of American College of Cardiology. Dicaro and Yee are the medical residents and Lei is a Cardiology Fellow…
Manoj Sharma's (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) article, “Application of the multi-theory model to explain veterinarians' intentions to use telehealth/telemedicine” was recognized as a top-cited article from the Journal of the British Veterinary Association, Veterinary Record, for the period January 1, 2022, to December 31, 2023.…
Kenny Do, Eric Kawana, Dr. Sisi Tian, and Dr. Jo-Lawrence Bigcas (all Medicine) published a systematic review in the Ears, Nose, & Throat Journal. This research paper examines the use of radiofrequency ablation (RFA) in treating Warthin's tumors of the parotid gland. Warthin's tumors are the second most common benign tumors of the parotid…
Tina Brandon Abbatangelo, Nancy Nguyen, Rachel Kim, Christina Demopoulos (all Dental Medicine) along with Timothy Grigsby (Public Health), Kavita Batra (Medicine) presented their study, "Investigating e-cigarette use perceptions among dental students: A cross-sectional study," at the Nevada Public Health Association Annual Conference on April 17,…
Lisa J. Toelle, Allison J. McNickle, Declan Feery, Salman Mohammed, Paul J. Chestovich,  Kavita Batra, Douglas R. Fraser (all Medicine) published a study "The pulmonary contusion score: Development of a simple scoring system for blunt lung injury" in the Surgery in Practice and Science journal.  This scoring system with high…
Lisa J. Toelle, Allison J. McNickle, Declan Feery, Salman Mohammed, Paul J. Chestovich,  Kavita Batra, Douglas R. Fraser (all Medicine) published a study "The pulmonary contusion score: Development of a simple scoring system for blunt lung injury" in the Surgery in Practice and Science journal. This scoring system with high specificity and…