26 Faculty physicians from the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV were recently named by Desert Companion Magazine. The physicians were chosen by their peers in an online nomination process. The UNLV honorees are: Dr. Ovunc Bardakcioglu – colon & rectal surgery, Dr. Mario Gaspar de Alba – developmental behavioral pediatrics, Dr. Kenneth Izuora – endocrinology diabetes & metabolism, Dr. Aditi Singh, Dr. John Varras and Dr. Sandhya Wahi Gururaj – internal medicine, Dr. Nadia Gomez – obstetrics & Gynecology, Dr. Erik Kubiak – orthopaedic surgery, Dr. Mathew Ng and Dr. Robert Wang – otolaryngology, Dr. Rebecca Scherr – pediatric gastroenterology, Dr. David Di John – pediatric infectious disease, Dr. David Parks - pediatric pulmonology, Dr. Michael Scheidler –pediatric surgery, Dr. Beverly Neyland, Dr. Fatehali Peera and Dr. Dodds Simanga – pediatrics, Dr. Richard Baynosa and Dr. John Menezes – plastic surgery, Dr. Alison Netski – psychiatry, Dr. Johnson Kay – rheumatology, Dr. Annabel Barber, Dr. Jennifer Baynosa, Dr. Daniel Kirgan, Dr. Deborah Kuhls and Dr. Charles St. Hill – surgery.