Accomplishments: Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV
Cam Johnson (Medicine), has received the 2021 Las Vegas Top Tech Award in the education category.
Johnson leads efforts to ensure all technology needs of both the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV and UNLV Health are met. He has served UNLV for 20 years and joined the School of Medicine in November 2017.
Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health) and Kavita Batra (Medicine) have edited a research monograph entitled, “COVID-19: Impact on Public Health and Healthcare. Approaches to Decrease the COVID-19 Impact” published by MDPI (Switzerland).
Empirical evidence related to handwashing behavior, mask wearing behavior, sanitizer development,…
Mingon Kang (Computer Science), Ji Yoo (Medicine), and Jay Shen (Healthcare Administration and Policy) have been awarded a grant of $245,000 from the Minority Research Grant Program of Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
The research team will use novel computational and clinical strategies, including a deep learning-based risk score…
Camille Adajar (Medicine) and Dr. Wolfram Samlowski of the Comprehensive Cancer Centers of Nevada recently published "Cautious addition of targeted therapy to PD-1 inhibitors after initial progression of BRAF mutant metastatic melanoma on checkpoint inhibitor therapy" in the journal BMC Cancer.
The article addresses patients with metastatic…
Dr. Marc J. Kahn (Medicine), dean of the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV and vice president for health affairs, was an invited speaker at the annual (virtual) Association of American Medical College Meeting, "Learn, Serve, Lead."
Kahn's session was titled, "Leading Effective Change--Bypassing the 'Technical Fixes' and…
Kavita Batra (Medicine) was invited as a panelist to share her analytic experience with the use of "Online Photovoice (OPV) in Qualitative Research" at the 3rd International Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Conference, Turkey. This event was hosted by the Association for Contextual Behavioral Science, Turkey chapter, the…
Drs. Banveet Kaur Khetarpal, Awad Javaid, Christoph Sossou, Ariyon Schreiber, and Chowdhury Ahsan (all Medicine) recently co-authored an abstract, “Racial Differences and In-Hospital Mortality Associated With Stress-Induced Cardiomyopathy During the COVID-19 Pandemic," which was published in the Journal of the American…
Dr. Ross P. Berkeley (Medicine) was one of two tactical physicians featured in a profile interview recently published in EM Resident titled "Tactical Medicine Q-and-A: Life as a SWAT Doc." He is chair and program director of the department of emergency medicine.
Dr. Kavita Batra (Medicine) recently was elected as a member of the Nevada System of Higher Education’s Task Force on Sexual Misconduct that was established by the Nevada Legislature pursuant to Senate Bill 347. This membership on the task force was approved by the Board of Regents. The overarching goal of this task force is to…
Manoj Sharma (Environmental and Occupational Health) presented two posters at the American Public Health Association’s 149th annual meeting held as a hybrid virtually and in Denver. The first presentation was “Technology Use to Improve Social Connectedness among Older Adults during COVID-19: Enhancing Educational Interventions,” and second…
Laura K. Gryder-Culver (Medicine) presented "Occupant Protection Analysis of Use of Child Restraints by Age" at the 2021 Nevada Traffic Safety Summit hosted by Nevada Department of Transportation and Department of Public Safety to share best practices to reach the ultimate goal of Zero Fatalities in Nevada. Gryder-Culver is a significant…
Dr. Marc J. Kahn (Medicine) was a recent invited speaker at the 18th annual J. Willis Hurst History of Medicine Symposium at Emory University. His talk was titled, "Sports Hematology: Dopers and Hoaxers."