Accomplishments: Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV
Chia Liang Dai (Teaching and Learning), Ching-Chen Chen (Counselor Education), and Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) published an article titled, “Exploring yoga behaviors among college students based on the multi-theory model (MTM) of health behavior change,” in the International Journal of Environmental Research and…
Deborah A. Kuhls, MD FACS, FCCM, chief, Division of Acute Care Surgery and chief of Trauma at UMC (Medicine), along with Susan Briggs, MD, FACS associate professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School, co-presented "Leading through Challenging times: Mass Casualties" webinar series sponsored by the Society of Vascular Surgeons, July 12, 2023. This…
Drs. Kassandra Colletta, Zachary Selzler, Jacqueline Jacobs Vogel, and Glendell de Guzman (all Medicine) published "Technique for Minimally Invasive Treatment of Gestational Uterine Incarceration: A Case Series and Literature Review" in Obstetrics and Gynaecology Cases - Reviews (DOI: 10.23937/2377-9004/1410244).
Brooke Conway Kleven (Public Health), Lung-Chang Chien, Brian Labus, Chad Cross, (all Epidemiology and Biostatistics), Arturo Montes (Internal Medicine) along with Aaron Ritter, Rebekah Randall, and Charles Bernick of the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health had their research article, "Longitudinal Changes in Regional Brain Volumes…
Deborah Kuhls, MD, FACS, FCCM, (Surgery; Medicine) and members of the American Association for Surgery of Trauma Disaster Committee published, "Are trauma surgeons prepared? A survey of trauma surgeons' disaster preparedness before and during the COVID-19 pandemic," in Trauma Surgery & Acute Care Open 2023 2023;8:e001073. doi:10.1136/…
Buddha Dawn (Medicine) was recently reappointed to serve as a Member-At-Large of the Leadership Committee of the Council on Basic Cardiovascular Sciences (BCVS) of the American Heart Association for another two-year term (July 1, 2023 to June 30, 2025). The BCVS Council is one of the largest Councils of the AHA and one of the largest organizations…
Zachary Selzler, MD PGY-4, and Adam Levy, MD, (both Medicine) published work from the UNLV OBGYN Pelvic Floor Physical Therapy Clinic in an article titled, “Bulbocavernosus Reflex as an Objective Measure of Improvement Following Directed Pelvic Floor Rehabilitation for Treatment of Urinary Incontinence.”
Kavita Batra (Medicine), along with GBD 2021 Diabetes Collaborators, published a study, "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," in the Lancet journal. With an Impact Factor of 202·731 (2021 …
Kavita Batra (Medicine) along with researchers from India, SriLanka, and Towson University (USA) published a study, "Effect of addition of titanium dioxide nanoparticles (Tio2NP) on the antimicrobial properties, surface roughness and surface hardness of polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA): A Systematic Review," in the F1000 journal. This…
Amalie Alver, Kavita Batra, and Kenneth Izuora (all Medicine), along with Arpita Basu (Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences), published their study, "Food Diary Completion Does Not Significantly Impact Glycemic Control in an Observational Single-Institution Pilot Study of Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus," in Cureus.
Sophie Ahmad, Rafae Nauman, Kavita Batra, Kenneth Izuora (all Medicine), along with Ashok Gupta from Desert Radiology, presented their study, "Relationship between bone loss and oral health among post-menopausal women with or without diabetes," at the Endocrine Society Annual Conference, 2023 held in Chicago, Illinois. Ahmad and Nauman are the…
Gregory Brown, M.D., (Psychiatry and Behavioral Health; Medicine) just published "Advanced Integrative Therapy: Origins, Research, Theory and Practice" with co-authors Elizabeth Pace and Tabatha Bird Weaver in the Energy Psychology Journal, Volume 15:1, May 2023.