Accomplishments: School of Dental Medicine
Dr. Christina Demopoulos, Dr. Flora Phipps, Dr. Marcia Ditmyer, and Dr. Lily T. Garcia (all Dental) accepted invitations to speak during the 2020 Nevada Public Health Association Annual (Virtual) Conference, which was themed Creating the Healthiest Nevada: Putting Prevention into Practice. Dr. Demopoulos presented “Putting Teeth into Early…
Jordan Ringer, Bryan Morrison, and Karl Kingsley (all Dental) published their research, "Evaluation of Hyaluronic Acid to Modulate Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma Growth In Vitro" in the upcoming issue of the Journal of Functional Biomaterials. Ringer and Morrison are Dental Medicine students who plan to graduate in 2021.
John Colombo (Dental) co-authored “Innovative Molecular and Cellular Therapeutics in Cleft Palate Tissue Engineering,” which appeared in the September issue of Tissue Engineering Part B: Reviews, and “Modeling Hypoxia Induced Factors to Treat Pulpal Inflammation and Drive Regeneration,” which appeared in the Journal of Endodontics.
Nareh Eshgian, Tanya Al-Talib, Stanley Nelson, and Neamat Hassan (all Dental Medicine) published a clinical research study on "Prevalence of hyperdontia, hypodontia, and concomitant hypo-hyperdontia" in the Journal of Dental Sciences. Anomalies in human dentition are some of the most common occurrences of congenital abnormalities. The…
Philip Hyunbae Son, Ah Reum Yoo, Fiona Britton, and Karl Kingsley (all Dental) published their research, "Differential Effects of Methylisothiazolinone (MIT) on Dental Pulp Stem Cells (DSPC)" in the upcoming issue of the Journal of Medical Discovery. Son and Yoo both are students who plan to graduate in 2021.
Andrew Graves and Karl Kingsley (both Dental), along with Sukdeep Sandhu, '20 DMD, published their research "Expression of miR-720 is Correlated with DNMT3 in Oral Squamous Cell Carcinomas" in the journal ExRNA. Graves will graduate from the DMD program with the class of 2021.
Jeffrey Ebersole (Dental) co-authored “Gingival Tissue Autophagy Pathway Gene Expression Profiles in Periodontitis and Aging,” which appeared online ahead of print in the Journal of Periodontal Research.
Dr. James Mah (Dental) co-authored “Effect of Botulinum Toxin Injection on Asymmetric Lower Face with Chin Deviation,” which appeared in Toxins as part of a special issue addressing the application of botulinum toxin in clinical medicine.
Jeffery Coon, Karl Kingsley and Katherine Howard (all Dental) published their work "miR-365 (microRNA): Potential Biomarker in Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma Exosomes and Extracellular Vesicles" in the latest issue of the International Journal of Molecular Sciences. Coon is a dental student who is planning to graduate in 2021.
Dr. Stanley Nelson (Dental) authored the 11th edition of Wheeler’s Dental Anatomy, Physiology & Occlusion, which is part of the vital source packet for School of Dental Medicine students. Nelson has been a co-author of the textbook since 2003, updating and adding new content to the previous three editions. The book is used for national board…
Dr. Lily T. Garcia (Dental) and Angela Amar (Nursing) accepted an invitation by Las Vegas City Councilman Brian Knudsen to appear on the city’s Access City Council program and share their thoughts about Southern Nevadans returning to their health care providers. They also discussed the multiple steps medical offices take to ensure safety during…
Dr. Linh Nguyen (Dental) is a former infectious disease epidemiologist for the Southern Nevada Health District. She is a member of a dedicated team at UMC and has been analyzing COVID-19 test swabs since late May. The UMC COVID-19 testing laboratories have the capacity to conduct 10,000 tests each day, which contributes to the preparation of…