Accomplishments: Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV
Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) has coauthored a publication titled, “Associations of Deep Sleep and Obstructive Sleep Apnea with Family Relationships, Life Satisfaction and Physical Stress Experience in Children: A Caregiver Perspective,” in association with colleagues from Northwestern University, the University of…
Kavita Batra (Medicine) has recently been invited to serve on the Cancer, Reproductive, Cardiovascular, and Other Chronic Diseases Prevention (CRC) Cross-Sector Council with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). This council addresses many types of health outcomes, including occupational cancers, adverse reproductive outcomes…
Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) and Micajah Daniels (Social and Behavioral Health) have authored the article “College Students' Readiness to Change in Physical Inactivity Behavior using Perfection Quotient Behavioral Model” with colleagues from the University of Mississippi, University of Mississippi Medical Center,…
Dean Dr. Marc J. Kahn (Medicine), vice president of health affairs, had his sixth book published. The Business of Building and Managing a Healthcare Practice, by Springer Publishing, is co-authored by colleagues Neil Baum and Jeffery Daigrepont. The book, now available on Amazon and other online sellers, provides ethical ideas and…
Kavita Batra (Medicine) was elected to serve as the president-elect on the Nevada Public Health Association's Executive Board. The mission of NPHA is to serve as the voice for public health in Nevada in order to improve health and achieve equity in health status. Batra's work related to the COVID-19 surveillance (during her role as the…
Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) had his work on Introspective Meditation (manan dhyana), a technique for finding complete inner contentment (Santosha), that he has copyrighted, featured in The Daily Guardian, for one of its applications. This application is, “Introspective meditation as a spiritual tool before…
Endocrinology fellows Dr. Sanna Fatima and Dr. Ainy Aziz (both Medicine) placed 1st and 2nd for the poster competition at the Western Endocrine Association annual meeting held August 25-27 in Sedona, Arizona. Their poster titles were "Type B Insulin Resistance" and "Massive Adreno-myelolipomas due to Longstanding CAH."
Kavita Batra and Deborah A. Kuhls (both Medicine) received a grant of $650,000 from the Nevada Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Health Care Financing and Policing to conduct a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU)-related study. The aim of this study is to investigate contributing factors of high cost of Medicaid…
Bertille Mavegam Assoumou (Medicine), Jennifer Pharr (Environmental and Occupational Health), and Courtney Coughenour (Public Health) published an article, "Food insecurity and risky sexual behaviors among college students during the COVID-19 pandemic," in BMC Public Health.
Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) co-published an article titled, “Effects of cinnamon on anthropometric indices and headache-related disability of patients with migraine: A randomized double-blind placebo-controlled trial,” in association with colleagues from Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad University…
Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) presented a virtual keynote address titled, “The Emergence of the Fourth-generation Multi-theory Model (MTM) of Health Behavior Change in Health Promotion Research,” at the 1st International Health Literacy, Health Education and Health Promotion Congress and the 4th Congress on Health…
Kavita Batra, has been selected to serve as Deputy Editor for Elsevier’s latest publication, Journal of Medicine, Surgery and Public Health. The newly launched journal will take a worldwide view of disease and health, encouraging submissions that look at priority problems and those that take a global, national, or regional…