Accomplishments: Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV
Lisa Durette (Psychiatry) co-authored a chapter about the role of child and adolescent psychiatrists within the child welfare system for Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America's edition Bringing the Village to the Child: Addressing the Crisis of Children’s Mental Health, An Issue of Child And Adolescent Psychiatric…
Kavita Batra (Medicine) published a study, "Serum-soluble ST2 as a novel biomarker for COVID-19 severity and mortality: A systematic review and meta-analysis," in the Journal of Health and Social Sciences. This meta-analysis identifies serum-soluble ST2 as a significant biomarker for assessing the severity and predicting mortality in COVID-19…
Kavita Batra (Medicine) along with GBD 2021 Causes of Death Collaborators published a study "Global burden of 288 causes of death and life expectancy decomposition in 204 countries and territories and 811 subnational locations, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021" in the Lancet journal. Per findings of…
Kavita Batra (Medicine) along with researchers from Morocco, Italy, Iran, Turkey, and Poland published a study "The effect of learned helplessness on the psychological health of healthcare workers" in the Journal of Health and Social Sciences.
Kavita Batra (Medicine) was recently invited to become a member of the Global Health Educators Community (GHECo), which is a part of the new Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH). The GHECo provides professional development and networking opportunities for professors who teach global health courses, design curricula and experiential…
Dr. Nate Hollister (Emergency Medicine) and his colleague Scott McDonald (Kinesiology) organized the Circus Meets Medicine conference held at UNLV on March 22, 2024.
The conference featured live demonstrations from artists as well as speakers discussing perspectives from elite performers and experts on injury management, biomechanics, and well-…
Rian Satterwhite (Service Learning & Leadership) was interviewed about the work of the Office of Service Learning & Leadership on the latest episode of Let's Talk UNLV, hosted by Tanya Crabb (Medicine) and Sammie Scales (Student Diversity Programs). "From fostering leadership development to providing vital support for students facing basic…
Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) coauthored an article titled, “Effect of dietary selenium intake on cardiovascular disease: A retrospective cohort study based on China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS) data,” in the journal Public Health Nutrition (Impact factor 3.2) in collaboration with colleagues from Chongqing…
Dr. Marc J. Kahn (Medicine), dean of the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV, was recently approved as an incoming member of the 2024-2025 COD Administrative Board for the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC). Kahn's term will formally begin in November.
Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health, Internal Medicine) and Asma Awan (Social and Behavioral Health) have been awarded a grant to develop a training program for reducing implicit bias among emergency room staff at Sarasota Memorial Health Care System based on the multi-theory model (MTM) of health behavior change. The intervention will help…
Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) published an article titled, “Mental health promotion by medical students: An untapped potential” for UJMS: UCMS Journal of Medical Sciences, a peer-reviewed journal published by his alma mater, University College of Medical Sciences, Delhi, India. The article discusses the role…
Kavita Batra (Medicine), as a member of the GBD 2019 Blindness and Vision Impairment Collaborators published a meta-analysis "Global estimates on the number of people blind or visually impaired by cataract: a meta-analysis from 2000 to 2020" in the journal Eye. This study found that the number of people blind and with moderate to severe…