Accomplishments: Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV
Neilmegh Varada (Medicine) presented the "Impact of Radiation Oncology Advanced Alternative Payment Model on Black Americans" at the American Society for Radiation Oncology annual meeting.
Dr. Paul Chestovich (Medicine) and Erin Breen (Engineering) sat down with the Review Journal recently to comment on the alarming trend of underreported pedestrian crashes near CCSD schools. Data tracking and reporting on these crashes leave gaps that the community would like to see addressed.
Daniel Cheng, Jennifer Baynosa, Daniel Kirgan, Charles St Hill (Medicine), Chad Cross (Public Health), and Shelley Williams (Dental Medicine) published the paper, "Comparing the effect of distance to treatment facility on reconstruction and breast conservation therapy for early-stage invasive ductal carcinoma between the nation and the mountain…
Buddha Dawn (Medicine) delivered the James Willerson Excellence in Science lecture at the North American meeting of the International Society for Heart Research and the International Academy of Cardiovascular Sciences in Winnipeg, Canada. His talk, “Regenerative potential of discarded materials,” was focused on potential therapeutic benefits of…
Kenneth Izuora (Medicine) co-authored the clinical practice guidelines of the American Association of Clinical Endocrinology (AACE) for the comprehensive care of persons with diabetes mellitus.
Kavita Batra (Medicine), along with researchers from India and Saudi Arabia published a study, "Assessing the Compliance of Dental Clinicians towards Regulatory Infection Control Guidelines Using a Newly Developed Survey Tool: A Pilot Cross-Sectional Study in India," in the journal Healthcare. The tool developed in this study can be used to…
Manoj Sharma, Ravi Batra (Social and Behavioral Health), Kavita Batra (Medicine), and coauthors from the University of Southern Mississippi, the University of Kentucky, and the University of Utah have published an article titled, “Assessing the testability of the multi-theory model (MTM) in predicting vaping quitting behavior among young adults in…
Kavita Batra (Medicine) co-authored an editorial, "Omicron variants of the SARS-CoV-2: A potentially significant threat in a new wave of infections," in the Disaster and Emergency Medicine journal. Batra has published several peer-reviewed articles related to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and its trajectory.
Siddharth Raich, Asma Awan, Christopher Johansen, and Manoj Sharma (all Social and Behavioral Health), and Kavita Batra (Medicine) presented two papers at Nevada Public Health Association’s Annual Conference on September 13 and 14, 2022.
The papers were titled, “Disparities in cervical cancer screening programs among minority women in the United…
Dr. Oriaku Kas-Osoka (Adolescent Medicine) will be honored by HELP of Southern Nevada on Sept. 30, 2022, for the work she does for the Shannon West Homeless Youth Center. She is an associate professor of pediatrics.
Gregory Brown, M.D., (Psychiatry and Behavioral Health) was elevated to Fellow status at the American College of Psychiatrists' 2022 Annual Meeting, which was held in August.
Jocy-Anna Chevalier (Public Health), Chad Cross (Epidemiology & Biostatistics), Rebecca Scherr (Pediatrics), and Sheniz Moonie (Epidemiology & Biostatistics) published an article on "The Impact of COVID-19 on Pediatric Obesity in Southern Nevada" in the Journal of Childhood Obesity.
In March 2020, schools in Nevada were issued a lockdown…