Accomplishments: School of Integrated Health Sciences
Drs Richard Rosenkranz and Sara Rosenkranz (both Kinesiology & Nutrition Sciences), along with colleagues from Kansas State University, recently published The association of overall dietary quality on stress, anxiety, depression, and academic performance in college students: a systematic review in the Journal of American College Health.…
Congratulations to John Mercer, Brooke Kleven, Dana Surwill, Thessa Hilgenkamp, Dustin Clow, Brach Poston, Brian Schilling, James Navalta and Sara Rosenkranz (all Integrated Health Sciences) for having earned the President's Interdisciplinary Challenge Award.
Their winning pitch emphasized the critical role of collaboration and data-driven…
Vernice Ollano, UNLV alumnae; Tedd Girouard (Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences); John Mercer (Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences; UNLV Sports Innovation Institute); and Mehdi Kordi from the United Kingdom published "The use of heated garments as a warm-up for sprint and submaximal effort cycling" in the Journal of Exercise Physiology - On…
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…
Dr. Jeffrey Cummings (Brain Health), research professor and Director of the Chambers-Grundy Center for Transformative Neuroscience at UNLV, was presented with a medal from Erik Ramanathan, the U.S. Ambassador to the Kingdom of Sweden, for his lifetime of work in Alzheimer’s research during a ceremony honoring the 10 previous winners of the…
Sharon Jalene (Integrated Health Sciences), associate dean of academic and student affairs and director of the applied health sciences program, spoke with Annette Logan-Parker from Cure 4 The Kids Foundation about the new Applied Health Sciences program and how it is educating health care professionals of the future.
Kenneth Izuora (Medicine), Amalie Alver (Medicine), Arpita Basu (Kinesiology), Kavita Batra (Medicine), Shelley Williams (Dental Medicine) and Jeffrey Ebersole (Dental Medicine) published “The Association of Dietary Micronutrient Intake and Systemic Inflammation among Patients with Type 2 Diabetes: A Cross-Sectional Study” in the journal…
Warren O. Forbes (Ph.D. 2023, Interdisciplinary Health Sciences - CSU San Bernardino) and Janet S. Dufek (Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences) recently published a paper titled, "The Influence of Induced Head Acceleration on Lower-Extremity Biomechanics during a Cutting Task," in the Biomedical Section of the journal Sensors. This paper examined…
Merrill Landers (Physical Therapy), chair of the department, was presented with the SPAHP Alumni Merit Award from Creighton University's Department of Physical Therapy. Landers, who graduated from the program in 1997, was recognized for his exceptional leadership in the profession and his service to his Las Vegas community, exemplifying the Jesuit…
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…
In the journal Preventive Medicine Reports, professor Richard Rosenkranz (Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences) recently co-authored a study: "Demographic correlates of weight-loss strategies in US adults: Cross-sectional analysis of NHANES data 2017–2020."
Faculty and students from the Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences department recently published a paper in the Human Physiology in Exercise, Health and Sports Performance special issue of the journal Sports, titled, "Validity and Reliability of Wearable Technology Devices during Simulated Pickleball Game Play." Merging two popular topics in…