Accomplishments: Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV
Marc J. Kahn (Medicine) was the senior author for a chapter in the textbook, "Blood Substitutes and Oxygen Biotherapeutics," published by Springer Nature. His chapter was titled, "Platelet Substitutes."
Emily Strickler (Medicine), with the Traffic Safety Research Team at the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine, presented "Nevada Non-Adjudicated Distracted Driving Citations from 2018-2021: A descriptive analysis" at the Association of Traffic Safety Information Professionals (ATSIP) 2022 Traffic Records Forum. The presentation discussed the project…
Buddha Dawn (Medicine) delivered an invited lecture titled “MSC therapy: Clinical evidence and scientific progress” at the ‘Mesenchymal stem/stromal cells - from basic research through clinical studies to registered products' symposium. The symposium was part of the Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society (TERMIS) 2022…
Allison McNickle, Stephanie Jones, Mais Yacoub, Stephanie Streit, Judith Ben Ari, and Douglas Fraser (all Medicine) co-authored "BIG Kids" Application of a modified brain injury guideline in a pediatric trauma center," published in the Journal of Pediatric Surgery in collaboration with Dina Bailey of UMC Trauma Services. This study evaluated the…
Mary Froehlich, Allison McNickle, and Douglas Fraser (all Medicine) co-authored an article "Airway Management in Self-Inflicted Gunshot Wounds to the Face" published in Surgery in Practice and Science. This study investigated the institutional practices for managing the airway in patients with severe facial trauma.
Kavita Batra (Medicine) and Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health), in association with researchers from Turkey and Italy, have co-authored an article titled, “Role of resilience in psychological adjustment and satisfaction with life among undergraduate students in Turkey: A cross-sectional study” in the Journal of Health and Social Sciences…
Kavita Batra (Medicine) and Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health) have coauthored an interdisciplinary article titled, “Animal-assisted interventions and post-traumatic stress disorders in military and veterans: A systematic review of the literature” in association with researchers from Italy, Canada, Poland, and the United States in the…
Dr. Vladislav Pavlovich Zhitny, Enes Djesevic, Gemma Lagasca, Aziza Dhalai, and Dr. Brian J. Mendelson (all Medicine) recently published "Regional and Acute Pain Anesthesiology Post COVID-19 Assessment and Recommendations for Fellowship Web Based Platforms" in Local and Regional Anesthesia.
Brianna L. Yee, Neilmegh L. Varada, Osman M. Rahimi, Chriselyn F. Palma, Omar S. Al-Taweel, and Chowdhury H. Ahsan (all Medicine) published "Scleroderma as an Uncommon Cause of Pericardial Effusion" in the Kansas Journal of Medicine. They all are with the internal medicine department.
Kavita Batra (Medicine) and Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health) published an interdisciplinary article, “Hoarding Disorder, Suicidality, and Treatment Modalities” in collaboration with Michael Kelson of Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine (New Jersey) in the Journal of Health and Social Sciences. The article presents a case for a…
Kavita Batra, Anne Weisman (both Medicine), Ravi Batra, and Manoj Sharma (both Public Health) along with researchers from the CDC Foundation, Nevada Department of Health and Human Services, and other countries, including India, Italy, Poland, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey, co-authored an article, "Evolution of SARS-CoV-2 Variants: A Rapid Literature…
Buddha Dawn (Medicine) co-authored a chapter, “The Structural Basis of Histone Modifying Enzyme Specificity and Promiscuity: Implications for Metabolic Regulation and Drug Design” in the book series Advances in Protein Chemistry and Structural Biology (Protein Design and Structure; Ed: Rossen Donev). This study identified several small…