Accomplishments: Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV
In the American Geriatrics Society 2023 Annual Scientific Meeting, interdisciplinary UNLV 'NIHAN' and UNR Sanford Center ICECAP project teams — Sidkazem Taghva, Mingon Kang (Computer Science); Jay Shen, Pearl Kim, Yonsu Kim (Healthcare Administration & Policy; Public Health), Laurie Kim, Ji Yoo (Medicine) — were invited to present…
Salman Mohammed, Kavita Batra, Ariyon Schreiber, Justin Bauzon, and Ahsan Chowdhury (all Medicine) presented a poster, "Predictors of Intubation In COVID-19 Patients Treated With Remdesivir: A Single Institution Retrospective Study," at the American College of Physicians (ACP) National Abstract Competition. Mohammed is a medical student with the…
Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) received a grant of $449, 611 from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)’s “National Initiative to Address COVID-19 Health Disparities among Populations at High-Risk and Underserved” administered through the Nevada State Health and Human Services Department. He is the…
Vishvaas Ravikumar and Jacob Berkowitz (both School of Medicine Class of 2023), under the mentorship of clinical assistant professor Dr. Ramalingam Ratnasabapathy (Medicine) presented their clinical vignette, “Novel Presentation of B-ALL in a Patient in Remission from ALL”, at the ACP National Conference 2023 in San Diego. They qualified as both…
Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) coauthored a paper entitled, “COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy: a systematic review of cognitive determinants,” in the journal, Health Promotion Perspectives (Impact Factor 3.18) with authors from Tabriz University of Medical Sciences. The article highlighted initiation and maintenance…
Dr. Gregory Brown, M.D., (Psychiatry; Medicine) published an article in the 5-PATH International Association of Hypnosis Professionals Journal, Vol. 33, Spring: "Psychiatric Medications and Hypnosis." The article reviews major medication classes used in psychiatry and their general lack of impairing the ability to enter the 6 levels of hypnotic…
Ross P. Berkeley, M.D., (Emergency Medicine) and Rachel Kelly (Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine Class of 2022 graduate) recently published a manuscript titled, "The Glasgow Coma Scale: A Disconnect between Medical Documentation and Traumatic Brain Injury Litigation in the United States," in the peer-reviewed Medico-Legal Journal.…
Asma Awan (Social and Behavioral Health) and Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) presented an oral presentation titled, “Consumer Satisfaction Survey for a COVID-19 Health Program Evaluation: The RQFSM Framework for Process Evaluation,” at the International Aegean Conferences Social Sciences and Humanities – VII held in…
Asma Awan (Social and Behavioral Health) and Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) presented a paper titled, “Community-based participatory evaluation of public health initiatives: a strategic gap analysis using the RQFSM (reach, quality, fidelity, satisfaction, management) framework,” at the 7th International Conference…
Associate professor Jingchun Chen (NIPM) and colleagues were awarded a grant on March 1, 2023.
Title: The impact of COVID-19 on Alzheimer’s disease, focusing on sharing genes and pathways in immune cells from the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) Foundation grant for one year with $100,000.
This grant is to…
Robert Cochrane (Interdisciplinary Health Sciences PhD candidate), James Navalta (Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences), and Anne Weisman (School of Medicine) recently published "The Hero’s Journey as a Novel, Narrative, and Improvisational Group Intervention on Quality of Life for People with Parkinson’s Disease" in Heroism Science. Parkinson’…
Kavita Batra (Medicine) has received an "Outstanding Mentor" award from the Graduate Professional Student Association at their 25th Annual Research Forum on April 15, 2023. This award recognizes academic faculty who have demonstrated continued success in preparing graduate students and trainees for their academic and professional pursuits. Batra…