Accomplishments: Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV
Vishvaas Ravikumar, presenter, and Jacob Berkowitz, co-author, (both Medicine) won the medical student clinical vignette category for their poster, "Novel Presentation of B-ALL in a Patient in Remission from AML", at the Nevada Chapter Scientific Meeting 2022 of the American College of Physicians (ACP). They will be traveling to San Diego in April…
Kyaw Min Tun, , Mark Hsu, Kavita Batra, Chun-Han Lo, Tooba Laeeq, Tanhe Vongsavath, Salman Mohammed, and Annie S. Hong (all Medicine), published an article, "Efficacy and Safety of Fecal Microbiota Transplantation in Treatment of Clostridioides difficile Infection among Pediatric Patients: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis," in the journal…
The Division of Acute Care Surgery, Pediatrics, and Pediatric Surgery in the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV collaborated on a pediatric cervical spine clearance guideline for treating children after traumatic injuries. The results of this quality initiative project titled, "A Pediatric Cervical Spine Clearance Guideline Leads to Fewer…
Three team members from Traffic Safety Research at the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV were recognized last week at the School of Public Health's Delta Omega Honor Society Induction Ceremony. Laura Gryder was inducted as an honorary member. Kavita Batra and Bertille Mavegam Tango Assoumou were elected to serve as Delta Theta chapter…
Christoph W. Sossou, Sadaf Fakhra, Kavita Batra, Dalia Hawwass, Aditi Singh, Buddhadeb Dawn, and Chowdhury H. Ahsan (all Medicine), along with a diverse group of researchers from the University of British Columbia, Emory University, St. George's University School of Medicine, Arrowhead Regional Medical Center, and Newark Beth Israel…
Bertille Assoumou (Medicine), Courtney Coughenour (Environmental and Occupational Health), Amruta Godbole (Epidemiology and Biostatistics), and Ian McDonough (Economics) published an article titled, "Senior food insecurity in the USA: a systematic literature review," in the journal Public Health Nutrition.
After examining 20 articles, they found…
Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health) and Kavita Batra (Medicine) were featured in the news outlet, "Sunday GuardianLive," through which they discussed the problem of excessive "screen-watching" among preschoolers in India. This has come to light through their previous research study published in the Community Health Equity Research…
Ph.D. candidate Nikki Bennett (Anthropology) and Ph.D. advisor Peter Gray (Anthropology, Medicine) published a research article titled, "A Study Evaluating Consumer Motivations, Perceptions, and Responses to Direct-to-Consumer Canine Genetic Test Results," in Animals. This study evaluated the user experience of using personal genetic…
A Persian translation of the popular book by Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health, Internal Medicine) titled, Introspective meditations for complete contentment (Santosha), was published this month (ISBN 978-622-7703-38-02). The book combines the collective wisdom from Eastern and Western thoughts and is based on the behavioral tenets…
Se Won Lee and Ji Yoo (both Medicine) published a review article titled, "The Role of Physical Activity in Older Adults and Practical Intervention," in HCA Healthcare Journal of Medicine. Dr. Lee is also program director of Mountain View Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation residency under Sunrise Health GME Consortium.
Unique experience and literature review of pyoderma gangrenosum of the hand was published in Orthopedic Surgery in October 2022. This article, published by Soohwan Kang and Ji Yoo (both Medicine), is about common clinical challenge to differentiate infection vs. inflammation or other words, use of antibiotics vs. steroid as trial of error…
Seung Lee, So Young Joo, and Ji Yoo (all Medicine) published three original articles in a series of publications about "robot and virtual reality assisted pain therapy for chronic scar patients" in the Journal of Clinical Medicine in June, July, and November 2022. Drs. Lee and Joo are visiting professors in the Kirk Kerkorian School of…