Accomplishments: Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV
Buddha Dawn (Medicine) recently co-authored an article titled, “Anti-inflammatory, anti-fibrotic and pro-cardiomyogenic effects of genetically engineered extracellular vesicles enriched in miR-1 and miR-199a on human cardiac fibroblasts,” in Stem Cell Reviews and Reports. In this study, human induced pluripotent stem cell-derived extracellular…
Mayra Repetto, Anna Horvath, Melanie Shackleford, Andrea Thi, Rory Twells, Kavita Batra, Dale Netski, Nadia Gomez, Leanne Free (all Medicine) presented their research, “Contraceptive Health Information Quality on TikTok: A Cross-Sectional Analysis,” at the Latino Medical Student Association National Conference held in Atlanta, Georgia.
Charlton Bassett, Mathew Stephen, Pedro Gonzalez, Salman Mohammed, Laura Gryder, Kavita Batra, and Deborah Kuhls (all Medicine) presented their study titled, "Investigating health resource utilization following pediatric motor vehicle crashes by different levels of child restraint use: A descriptive analysis of Nevada (2005-2017)," at the Nevada…
Charlton Bassett, Bita Bashy, Zachary Leavitt, Ashley Prandecki, Ravi Batra, Kavita Batra, Aditi Singh (all Medicine) presented their study titled, "Burnout amidst the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic: A comparative evidence from India," at the Nevada Public Health Association Annual Conference held in Reno. Bassett, Bashy, and Leavitt are…
Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine), presented a paper titled, “Community-based Participatory Research (CBPR) Applied to Process Evaluation in Nevada: An Application of the Dovetailing of the RQFSM Model with CBPR,” at the 13th International Conference on Health, Wellness & Society in Vancouver, Canada. Participants…
Merika Charupoom (Public Health), Kavita Batra, Max Gakh, William Sousa, William Porter, Bertille Mavegam, Courtney Coughenour, and Deborah Kuhls presented their study, "An analysis of Police Traffic Stops data dashboards to find the most effective data visualization technique and strategy," at the Nevada Public Health Association annual meeting.…
Aidy Weeks (Libraries, Medicine) and Stephanie Fell (Libraries) were among a group awarded the 2023 Project of the Year by the Medical Library Association for their work on the Hispanic/Latinx Inclusive Terminologies Project. Launched in 2020, this project became a catalyst for changes in racial/ethnic medical subject headings, created a new…
Buddha Dawn (Medicine) recently delivered the Amarjit Arneja Distinguished Lecture at the 10th Annual Meeting of the North American Section of the International Academy of Cardiovascular Sciences in Tampa, Florida. His talk, “Therapeutic potential of mesenchymal stem cells,” was focused on the growing evidence from preclinical studies as well as…
Kavita Batra (Medicine) along with the GBD 2019 IMID collaborators published a study, "Global, regional, and national incidence of six major immune-mediated inflammatory diseases: findings from the global burden of disease study 2019," in the eClinicalMedicine (part of the LANCET Discovery Science, Impact factor=15.1). This study presents a…
UNLV President Keith Whitfield and Dr. Marc J. Kahn, dean of the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine, co-authored an editorial that recently appeared in the Las Vegas Sun. “Teamwork Essential for Better Health Care in Las Vegas,” highlighted the school’s plan for an academic health center where all of UNLV’s health science schools, as well as…
Kavita Batra (Medicine) co-authored a study titled, “Global, regional, and national burden of diabetes from 1990 to 2021, with projections of prevalence to 2050: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021,” (earlier published in the Lancet) was recently mentioned in the Washington Post as a part of its “Big Number” series,…
Dean Dr. Marc J. Kahn (Medicine) recently collaborated with colleagues from the University of Florida to author a chapter in the latest edition of Irwin & Rippe's Intensive Care Medicine. Kahn's chapter, "Anemia In The Critical Care Setting," is part of the ninth edition of what is considered by many to be the preeminent textbook for…