Accomplishments: Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV
26 Faculty physicians from the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV were recently named “Top Docs” by Desert Companion Magazine. The physicians were chosen by their peers in an online nomination process. The UNLV honorees are: Dr. Ovunc Bardakcioglu – colon & rectal surgery, Dr. Mario Gaspar de Alba – developmental behavioral…
Dr. Kevin Kuruvilla (Medicine) presented "Implementation of Brain Injury Guidelines for Isolated Traumatic Brain Injury in Adults Decreases Resource Use Without Adversely Impacting Outcomes" at the 80th Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma and Clinical Congress of Acute Care Surgery in Atlanta.
Dr. Joshua J. Goldman led a team including students Demitri V. Franzoni, Mariam Al-Hamad Daubs, Dr. Mitchell E. Lyons, as well as Dr. Harry H. Ching, and Dr. Jo-Lawrence Bigcas (all Medicine) in publishing a report entitled, "Submental Paradoxical Adipose Hyperplasia Following Cryolipolysis: A Report and Management Recommendations"…
Jennifer R. Pharr (Public Health) and Kavita Batra (Medicine) recently published a study titled "Physical and Mental Disabilities among the Gender-Diverse Population Using the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System ... A Propensity-Matched Analysis" in a Healthcare journal.
The findings of this study advocate for developing policies and…
Kavita Batra (Medicine) recently contributed to a workshop on research methodology in social sciences and humanities at the International Federation for Fitness, Health, and Physical Education and Iron Games.
The overarching goal of this workshop was to describe guidelines for designing and conducting interdisciplinary and evidence-based…
Manoj Sharma (Environmental & Occupational Health) and Kavita Batra (Medicine) published an article entitled, “A theory-based analysis of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among African Americans in the United States: A recent evidence” in co-authorship with Ravi Batra (Coforge) in the journal Healthcare. The article lends support to…
Zahra Mojtahedi (Puiblic Health), a doctoral student, along with, Ji Won Yoo (Medicine), Karen Callahan (Public Health), Neeraj Bhandari and Jay Shen (both Healthcare Administration and Policy), master's of public health student Katayoon Ghodsi, and visiting scholar from China Donghui Lou recently published an article entiled "Inpatient…
Justin Bauzon, Caleb Murphy and Sandhya Wahi-Gururaj (all Medicine) recently published "Using Macros in Microsoft Excel to Facilitate Cleaning of Research Data" in the Journal of Community Hospital Internal Medicine Perspectives.
Retrospective chart review studies may be delayed by inability to export clean clinical data from an electronic…
Monica Rose Arebalos, Faun Lee Botor, Edward Simanton, and Jennifer Young (all Medicine) recently published "Required Longitudinal Service-Learning and Its Effects on Medical Students' Attitudes Toward the Underserved" in the Medical Science Educator Journal. Although medical students enter medicine with altruistic motives and seek to…
Mingon Kang (Computer Science), Ji Yoo (Medicine), Brendan Morris (Electronic and Computer Engineering), Zhaohuam Zhu (Physics and Astronomy), Qiang Zhu (Physics and Astronomy), Mira Han (Life Sciences), Kazem Taghva (Computer Science), and Shashi Nambisan (Civil and Environmental Engineering and Construction) were awarded National Science…
Samantha Slinkard-Barnum (University of South Carolina College of Nursing), Laura K. Gryder-Culver, Kavita Batra, Paul J. Chestovich, and Deborah A. Kuhls (all Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine) published the study "Skilled Maneuvering: Evaluation of a Young Driver Advanced Training Program" in the Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery. The…
Six faculty physicians at the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV were named Top Doctors in the August 2021 issue of VEGAS INC's Health Care Quarterly magazine. Singled out for providing excellent care by the publication were: Dr. John Brosious, Plastic Surgery; Dr. David Di John, Infectious Disease; Dr. Mitchell…