Accomplishments: Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV
Kavita Batra (Medicine) was recently invited to serve as a Topical Advisory Panel member with the Vaccines journal.
Glenn Barnes (Sports Medicine Center) has been certified by the Alliance for Physician Certification & Advancement in Musculoskeletal Sonography (RMSK). Certification requires submission of previously performed ultrasounds that are reviewed by experts, as well as passing a rigorous exam. Barnes is the only fellowship trained…
Kenneth Izuora and Amber Champion (both Internal Medicine) participated in a round table discussion with Senator Catherine Cortez Masto at the Silver Sky Assisted Living Facility in Las Vegas. The two physicians joined other medical professionals to provide input on how the Inflation Reduction Act might impact Medicare patients using insulin…
Ariyon Schreiber, Kim Inciong, Wilbur Ji, Justin Bauzon, Omar Al-Taweel, Keaton Nasser, Binna Chokshi, Jimmy Diep, Chowdhury Ahsan (all Internal Medicine), published "A Single-center Retrospective Study on the Incidence and Clinical Significance of the Electrocardiographic "Triangular QRS-ST-T Waveform" Pattern in Heart and Lung" in the Journal of…
Several colleagues from the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV published "Clinical Characteristics and Implications of Bradycardia in COVID‑19 Patients Treated with Remdesivir: A Single‑Center Retrospective Cohort Study" in the journal Clinical Drug Investigation. The results of the study highlight the need to evaluate the…
The UNLV Division of Acute Care Surgery worked with the UNLV Office of Traffic Safety to publish "Higher risk of auto versus pedestrian crashes in school-age children on school days" in the Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery. The study evaluated children who were hit by cars in Las Vegas and found that the risk of crash…
Alexis Hilts and Ariyon Schreiber (both Medicine) published "A Clinical Case of COVID-19 Vaccine-Associated Guillain Barre Syndrome" in the American Journal of Case Reports.
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.