Accomplishments: UNLV Health Primary Care: Internal Medicine
Ahmed Gill, Omar Al-Taweel, Dalia Hawwass, Chowdhury Ahsan (all Medicine) and colleagues presented three posters to the European Society of Cardiology Congress. Their presentations were titled, "Transcatheter aortic valve replacement in patients with a concomitant aortic aneurysm," "Short-term outcomes of patients transferred from non-acute care…
Buddha Dawn (Medicine) has been appointed as a section editor (associate editor) for cardiovascular regeneration for Stem Cell Reviews and Reports, a Springer Nature journal. The journal publishes original research papers, review articles, translational stem cell studies, hypotheses and commentaries, protocols, as well as letters to the editor on…
Drs. Sandhya Wahi-Gururaj, Aditi Singh (both Medicine) and Chad Cross (Environmental and Occupational Health), along with Drs. Bhavana Bhaya, Dimal Patel, Justin Jeffries, and Edward Co, all former chief internal medicine residents (Medicine), presented their research poster at the Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine Online 2021 meeting…
Dr. Buddha Dawn (Medicine) recently published an article, “Vitamin D3 Induces Mesenchymal-to-Endothelial Transition and Promotes a Proangiogenic Niche through IGF-1 Signaling,” in iScience, a Cell Press journal. The results show that vitamin D3, a natural compound, can promote blood vessel formation by inducing an endothelial phenotype in…
Dr. Nabil Noureddin (Medicine) recently published his article “Progression of Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease-Associated Fibrosis in a Large Cohort of Patients with Type 2 Diabetes” in the Digestive Diseases and Sciences Journal. He is the first author on this original research that aimed to provide large-scale data on progression and regression…
Dr. Buddha Dawn (Medicine) recently co-authored an article, “WJMSC-derived Small Extracellular Vesicles Enhance T Cell Suppression through PD-L1," in the Journal of Extracellular Vesicles, the official journal of the International Society for Extracellular Vesicles. The results show that PD-L1 is essential for Wharton’s jelly mesenchymal stem cell…
Ji Won Yoo (Medicine) with a team of physicians from the department of family medicine and neurology from Korea University recently published an article, "Association of High-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol Variability and the Risk of Developing Parkinson Disease" in the prestigious journal Neurology. The paper explores the longitudinal…
Dr. Sandhya Wahi-Gururaj (Medicine) published her paper, “Cancer Survivorship in Hematologic Malignancies: Lifestyle Changes after Diagnosis” in the Cancer Medicine Journal. Wahi-Gururaj and colleagues performed a cross‐sectional study of 116 patients at a community oncology center who completed anonymous questionnaires. The study demonstrates…
Dr. Majid Mekany (Medicine) published his paper, “Patient Sleep Quality in Acute Inpatient Rehabilitation,” in PM&R journal. He is a coauthor on this original research project that aimed to assess patient sleep quality in the acute inpatient rehabilitation setting. The authors provided a validated sleep questionnaire to 73 patients admitted to…
Dr. Nabil Noureddin (Medicine) published a paper, “Sex Differences in Age at Wait-List Registration for Liver Transplantation (LT) with Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis (NASH) as Primary Indication,” in Clinical Transplantation journal. He is the co-first author on this project that showed there is a shift in which NASH is becoming the leading…
Dr. Will Johnson (Medicine) had his street-art-influenced work displayed at the Helios Fina Art Studio during a local art show called "The Sign" as well as at First Friday Las Vegas. Johnson, a resident in internal medicine, believes that cultivating one's well-being is crucial for physicians to be better providers in the long term.