Accomplishments: Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV
Nataliyah Tahir, Sophie Ahmad, Kavita Batra, Ashok Gupta, and Kenneth E. Izuora (all Medicine) presented their study "Assessing the Relationship Between Bone Loss and Oral Health Among Post-menopausal Women" at the Annual Meeting of Endocrine Society 2024 held in Chicago. Tahir and Ahmad are medical students.
Kavita Batra (Medicine) along with researchers from Italy, Turkey, Morocco, and Iran published a study "Social Media: Stress Factors or Coping Strategies? A Pilot Study in a Sample of Italian Teachers," in the Iranian Rehabilitation Journal (IRJ). This exploratory research explores the relationship between social media engagement and its…
Deanna Chea and Oscar Toro (both Medicine) are the winners of the 2024 American Family Physician Journal photo contest and will have the winning photo published in July’s edition. They will also receive an award at the AAFP National Convention in August.
Kavita Batra (Medicine) along with the GBD 2019 MSK in Adolescents Collaborators, published a study "Global pattern, trend, and cross-country inequality of early musculoskeletal disorders from 1990 to 2019, with projection from 2020 to 2050" in the Med journal. This study aimed to estimate the burden, trends, forecasts, and disparities of…
Kavita Batra (Medicine) recently contributed to a study published in Lancet in March 2024 related to the global fertility rates and its forecasting in 2021. The findings of this study were referenced by the Washington Post ("Opinion: A birthrate bomb?") in surveying the world population and what the existing rates of fertility means for…
Deborah A. Kuhls, Bertille Mavegam Tango, Kavita Batra (all Medicine), along with Courtney Coughenour, Max Gakh, William Porter, Darin Mains, Kacie Washburn (all Public Health), and William Sousa (Urban Affairs) presented findings from the Statistical Transparency of Policing (STOP) Project, resulting from SB 236 (2021) at…
Gregory Brown, Kavita Batra, Emily Dorin, Raveena Bakhru, Andrew Han, Arianna Palermini, Robert Sottile, and Sherine Khanbijian (all Medicine) presented a poster of their study, "Comparing AIT and EFT in Reduction of Negative Emotions Associated with a Past Memory: A Randomized Control Study," at the Association of Comprehensive Energy…
Aaron Peterson, Philip Borsellino, Ryder Davidson, Edozie Ezeanoloue, Gemma Lagasca, Jared Diaz, Kavita Batra, and Anne Weisman (all Medicine) published a study, "The Effectiveness of Mind-Body Intervention on Psychological Well-Being during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Pilot Pre-Post Interventional Study," in the Healthcare journal. Peterson,…
The Nevada Interprofessional Healthy Aging Network (NIHAN) was awarded a five-year grant by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) to continue their efforts to support healthy aging. Led by Ji Won Yoo, MD, associate professor and director of the geriatric fellowship program in the department of internal medicine, NIHAN aims to…
Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) coauthored an article within the GBD 2021 Diseases and Injuries Collaborators team titled, “Global incidence, prevalence, years lived with disability (YLDs), disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs), and healthy life expectancy (HALE) for 371 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and…
Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) coauthored an article within the GBD 2021 Forecasting Collaborators team titled, “Burden of Disease Scenarios for 204 Countries and Territories, 2022-2050: A Forecasting Analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021” in the journal, Lancet (Impact factor 168.9). The article…
Kyaw Min Tun, Kavita Batra, Sandhya Wahi-Gururaj, and Aditi Singh (all Medicine) with Neil Zhang (Cedars-Sinai Medical Center) and Atif Qasim (University of California San Francisco School of Medicine) presented their study, "Predictors of successful match into Gastroenterology fellowship" at the Digestive Disease Week (DDW)- 2024 held in…