Accomplishments: Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV
Laura K. Gryder-Culver, Merika Charupoom (both Medicine), and Erin Breen (Transportation Research Center) presented "Marrying Pedestrian and Bike Data with Court Education Data and Community Demographics" at the 2021 Nevada Traffic Safety Summit hosted by Nevada Department of Transportation and Department of Public Safety to share best practices…
Dr. Deborah Kuhls (Medicine) was invited as a panelist to discuss consequences of risky driving behaviors as a part of her presentation titled "Fast and Furious: Let’s Talk ҳ| 鶹ýӳ Speed!" at the 2021 Nevada Traffic Safety Summit hosted by Nevada Department of Transportation and Department of Public Safety. Kuhls has been…
Dr. Ross P. Berkeley (Medicine) virtually presented "Las Vegas 1 October Mass Casualty Shooting: Lessons Learned" to medical students at Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine. Berkeley discussed perspectives on the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history from the viewpoint of being on scene as a tactical physician with the Las…
Karen Callahan (Epidemiology and Biostatistics), Ji Yoo (Medicine), Jennifer Vanderlaan (Nursing), Jay Shen (Healthcare Administration), public health doctoral student Zahra Mojtahedi, and master of public health student Katayoon Ghodsi, along with Guogen Shan of the University of Florida, and Jerry Reeves of CoMagine Health…
Kavita Batra (Medicine) recently co-authored a study titled "Perceptions of Dental Undergraduates towards Online Education during COVID-19: Assessment from India, Nepal and Sri Lanka" in a journal Advances in Medical Education and Practice. This study was conducted in three countries – India, Nepal and Sri Lanka to compare…
Pearl Kim and Jay Shen (Healthcare Administration and Policy), Ji Yoo (Medicine), public health doctoral student Zahra Mojtahedi, and Ja Seol Koo, Hee-Taik Kang, Jinwook Hwang, and Moon Kyung Joo (all international visiting scholars from Korea) recently co-authored an article, "Palliative Care and Life-Sustaining/Local Procedures…
Manoj Sharma (Social & Behavioral Health) and Kavita Batra (Medicine) published an article entitled, “Testing multi-theory model (MTM) in explaining sunscreen use among Florida residents: An integrative approach for sun protection" in the journal Healthcare in co-authorship with colleagues from University of North Florida,…
Ken Kuruvilla, James Clark, Oscar Estrada Munoz, Allison McNickle, Douglas R. Fraser, Deborah A. Kuhls, John Fildes, and Paul J. Chestovich (all Medicine) recently presented a paper titled Implementation of brain injury guidelines (BIG) for isolated traumatic brain injury in adults decreases resource use without adversely impacting outcomes”…
Laura Crankshaw, Allison G. McNickle, Kavita Batra, Deborah A. Kuhls, Paul J. Chestovich, and Douglas R. Fraser (all Medicine) recently presented a paper titled "The volume of thoracic irrigation affects length of stay in patients with traumatic hemothorax" at the 80th Annual Meeting of the…
Lindsay Cranker, Kavita Batra, Allison G. McNickle, Douglas R. Fraser, Deborah A. Kuhls, and Paul J. Chestovich (all Medicine) recently presented a poster titled "Trauma volume increased in lower socioeconomic communities during the COVID-19 pandemic” at the 80th Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma…
Dr. Awad Javaid (Medicine) recently wrote a manuscript as first author titled "Stress cardiomyopathy in hospitalized patients with cancer: machine learning analysis by primary malignancy type" which was published in ESC Heart Failure.
Demographics and outcomes of specific cancer types in hospitalized patients with stress cardiomyopathy were…
Sandhya Wahi-Gururaj (Medicine) co-presented "Pay It Forward with the 4 Es - Effective, Efficient, External, Evaluative Letters for Academic Promotion" with colleagues across the country at the Program Directors in Internal Medicine 2021 Online Meeting last month.
This presentation was based on work with the Promotional Support for…