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Department of Health Physics and Diagnostic Sciences News

The department of health physics and diagnostic sciences within the School of Integrated Health Sciences provides a high-quality educational experience for undergraduate and graduate students in the areas of health physics; medical physics; comprehensive medical imaging; radiochemistry; and radiography.

Current Health Physics and Diagnostic Sciences News

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People |

The associate dean of research in Integrated Health Sciences leans into his own immigrant story to provide others with opportunities.

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Research |

Three-year grant from U.S. Dept. of Energy will highlight AI-based and experimental learning to understand effects of occupational and medical radiation.

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Campus News |

Sparked by the connection of two alumni, the partnership is key to UNLV being the top producer of radiologic technologists in Nevada.

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Research |

Working in the field of immunotherapy, Amani Makkouk’s career was set in motion by her time as a master’s student in the School of Integrated Health Sciences.

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Research |

At UNLV, Haven Searcy gains two degrees and experience analyzing the effects of radiation on the environment.

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Campus News |

As future frontline health care workers, UNLV radiography students spend a year learning how to properly position a patient for imaging.

Health Physics and Diagnostic Sciences In The News

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UNLV recently received a $1.5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to study the effects of radiation exposure and the risk of breast cancer in occupational and medical radiation.

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A Radiology Partners affiliate has teamed with a local university to bolster its talent pipeline. Desert Radiology Chief Operating Officer Matt Grimes, MBA, earned his degree in radiography administration from the ҳ| 鶹ýӳ, in 1996. Twenty years later when he joined the practice, one of his top priorities was reinstituting a collaboration allowing UNLV second-year radiography students to gain experience at DR facilities.

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The approach even goes further, with trips to more distant areas.

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H-bombs use a combination of nuclear fission and fusion and are far more powerful than atomic bombs.

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Seven years after the end of WWII, the US detonated the world's first hydrogen bomb.

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The world's first nuclear weapon — the atom bomb — devastated the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.

Health Physics and Diagnostic Sciences Experts

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Recent Health Physics and Diagnostic Sciences Accomplishments

Chad Hensley and Heidi Shelton (both Health Physics and Diagnostic Sciences) were the first imaging technologists to speak at the annual TravelCon Conference, the largest conference dedicated to traveling healthcare professionals. Hensley spoke on medical imaging's role in child abuse - a modality review, and Shelton spoke on fatal and gonadal…
Krishnakumar Nangeelil, Haven Searcy, and Zaijing Sun (all Health Physics and Diagnostic Sciences), along with Beverly Parker from the Community Environmental Monitoring Program (CEMP) at the Desert Research Institute, published an article titled, “Assessing Radiation Fallout in Public Zones near the Nevada National…
Associate professor Zaijing Sun (Health Physics and Diagnostic Sciences) received a three-year, $280,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for his upcoming project titled, "Developing Quasi Absolute Method (QAM) and 3-D Isotopic Imaging with Neutron Activation."  
Haven Searcy (Health Physics and Diagnostic Sciences) won the Junior Investigator Award and gave a presentation at the 31st Annual Meeting of the Council on Ionizing Radiation Measurements & Standards (CIRMS 2024). His submitted essay is titled "No nuclear fallout radioactivity was found on public zones around the Nevada National Security…
Krishnakumar Nangeelil and Zaijing Sun (both Health Physics and Diagnostic Sciences), along with Colby Fleming from the Nuclear Reactor Program at North Carolina State University, published an article titled, “Using neutron activation to assess heavy metal pollution in water and sediment along Savannah River,” in Environmental…
 Zaijing Sun, Krishnakumar Nangeelil, Haven Searcy (all Health Physics and Diagnostic Sciences) published an article titled, “Developing a Remote Gamma-ray Spectra Collection System by Coupling a High Purity Germanium (HPGe) Detector with a CosmicGuard Background Reduction Device,” in HARDWAREX. The paper introduces the design…