Accomplishments: Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV
An application submitted by Anjali Agrawal and Josephine Sun (both Medicine) was selected by the Community Pediatrics Training Initiative (CPTI) Advocacy Training Grants program for a 2024 award!
CPTI is sponsoring them as a faculty-resident pair to attend the AAP Advocacy Conference in Washington, D.C., on April 14-16, 2024. The conference…
Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) has been elected a section councilor in the Integrative, Complementary, and Traditional Health Practices Section of the American Public Health Association for a three-year term. APHA is the largest and oldest professional organization in the field in the nation and Sharma has been…
Emylia Terry, Jennifer Pharr, Ravi Batra (all Public Health) & Kavita Batra (Medicine) published a study, "Protective and Risk Factors for Suicidal Ideation and Behavior Among Sexual Minority Women in the United States: A Cross-Sectional Study" in the LGBT Health journal. This study highlights that tackling structural inequities such as racism…
The Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine hosted national experts in the field of sports medicine during the NFL Health and Safety Super Bowl Medical Summit, on Feb. 9. Physicians, athletic trainers, physical therapists, and medical students learned about advancements in a number of different areas, including protective equipment, concussion…
Medical student Kian Habashi (Medicine) won second place at the Clark County Medical Society 2024 Virtual Research Symposium with his virtual poster on "Improved Advanced Care Planning in Geriatric Hip Fractures."
Henry Krasner, Jeffrey Martin, Crysty-Ann Olaco, Dale M. Netski, Kavita Batra (all Medicine) along with Nicolette Harmon (Public Health) published a study, "Community Level Correlates of COVID-19 Booster Vaccine Hesitancy in the United States: A Cross-Sectional Analysis," in the Vaccines journal. Krasner, Martin, Olaco are medical students and…
Gregory Brown (Medicine) blog, New Research in Advanced Integrated Therapy, was featured on the Association for Comprehensive Energy Psychology's website. Dr. Brown will be presenting his team's research at their annual meeting this spring.
Lubaba Haque, Kyaw Min Tun, Salman Mohammed, Neilmegh Varada, Jose Aponte-Pieras, and Gordon Ohning.
Lubaba Haque, Kyaw Min Tun, Salman Mohammed, Neilmegh Varada, Jose Aponte-Pieras, and Gordon Ohning (all Medicine) had their case report (23-0935R1), "A Rare Case of Pancreatic Schwannoma in a Patient with a History of Intra-abdominal Fibrosarcoma," published in the Annals of Internal Medicine: Clinical Cases (AIMCC).
Kenny Do (UNLV Medical Student) and Eric Kawana (UNLV Medical Student) published a case report regarding polymyalgia rheumatica that was originally thought to be cervical spinal stenosis in the journal Cureus.
Student Eric Kawana (Medicine) and Vladislav Zhitny (NYU Anesthesiology Resident/UNLV Medicine Graduate) published a study. The efficacy of radiofrequency ablation (RFA) in treating chronic thoracic and abdominal pain conditions was assessed. The study, following PRISMA guidelines, gathered 32 articles from 1992 to 2022, including observational…
Kavita Batra (Medicine) has been selected as one of few members to serve on the Technical Expert Panel (TEP) for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Practice Based Research Networks (AHRQ-PBRN). The goal of the TEP is to obtain insight regarding approaches or strategies for supporting the research of PBRNs and guidance for the…
Vladislav Zhitny (NYU Anesthesiology Resident/UNLV Medicine Graduate), Kenny Do (UNLV Medical Student), Eric Kawana (UNLV Medical Student) published a systematic review regarding the radiation exposure of interventional pain physicians in the Pain Physician journal. Millions of interventional pain procedures are performed each year to address…