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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
Dr. David Jackson shares how Gynecologic Surgery and Obstetrics' priorities include training physicians, providing elite care, and establishing transformational research.
This month’s frosty headlines and highlights from the students and faculty of UNLV.
Dr. Rebecca Scherr was not only a patient of Dr. Beverly Neyland's from birth, but a student of hers during her medical school training.
Approach aimed at lifting Nevada from its low rankings in health care access.
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Embracing the idea that we’re “better together,” UNLV’s academic health center takes another step forward.
Meet two of the key members of the school of medicine development and alumni relations department.
Medicine In The News
Four weeks after his son, Denali, 16, died by suicide in 2018, Jason Mayne went back to work. Given a month to grieve, Jason thought he could return to his job as a health and safety trainer for Nevada Gold Mines in Elko County, as usual. But after he responded to a fatality at his workplace, the nightmares and panic attacks began and would not let up.
Nevada ranks 45th in the US for active physicians per 100,000 residents, and with seemingly little appetite to fund residency programs at the federal level, officials in the Silver State are mulling new ways to tackle a worsening issue.
Kennedy Jackson, a UNLV theater arts major, still remembers the hummingbird she saw fluttering outside of UNLV’s Beam Hall one year ago. She was walking back from studying for finals, and the campus was abuzz with pre-finals stress and pre-holiday anticipation. But in just a few short hours, the excitement and jitters would turn into utter fear.
Las Vegas’ lack of a comprehensive kids’ hospital has deadly consequences. Could a solution be on the horizon?
Las Vegas’ lack of a comprehensive kids’ hospital has deadly consequences. Could a solution be on the horizon?
The highly acclaimed Apple TV show “Ted Lasso” first appeared in 2020 to rave reviews. Ostensibly, it is a show about a college American football coach in the Midwest who finds himself coaching a Premier League soccer team in the U.K. despite knowing little about U.K. culture, colloquialisms or the game of soccer itself.
