Accomplishments: Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV
Chad Morrison, Laura Gryder, Ty Olson, Douglas Fraser, Allison McNickle, Syed Saquib, Joseph Carroll, Samantha Slinkard-Barnum, Deborah Kuhls, and Paul Chestovich (all Medicine) researchers presented at the 34th annual Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma. They are researchers in the surgery department.
Morrison presented "The…
Dr. Jordan Grush (Medicine) co-authored "A Case Series of Chemical Dermal Injury Requiring Operative Intervention after Prolonged Dermal Methylene Chloride Exposure," which recently was published in the peer-reviewed Journal of Medical Toxicology. The case series describes three patients requiring transfer to a tertiary burn center after…
Manoj Sharma (Environmental & Occupational Health) and Kavita Batra (School of Medicine) published the article "Explaining handwashing behavior in a sample of college students during COVID-19 pandemic using the multi-theory model (MTM) of health behavior change: A single institutional cross-sectional survey" in collaboration with Robert…
Kavita Batra (Medicine), Patricia Cruz, Chad L. Cross, Neeraj Bhandari, Jennifer R. Pharr, Mark P. Buttner (all Environmental and Occupational Health), and Farooq Abdulla (University Medical Center of Southern Nevada) co-authored an article in The International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health titled “Incidence of Neonatal…
Dr. Marc J. Kahn (Medicine) co-authored a study, "A Comparison of Match Outcomes between Traditional Medical Degree and Dual-degree Applicants," which appeared this month in Plos One, a peer-reviewed medical journal. The study looks at the question: Do medical students with dual degrees have better luck matching to residencies than…
Bobak Seddighzadeh (Medicine, third-year student) published an article in Men's Health Magazine titled "How Safe Are the mRNA COVID-19 Vaccines? We Asked the Experts."
Samantha Slinkard-Barnum (Medicine) presented her work at the international Trauma Quality Improvement Program 2020 virtual Annual Scientific Meeting. Her poster,
Development of an Injury Prevention Evaluation Toolkit (IP-ET) for Trauma Center Injury Prevention Programs: Building Self Efficacy and Evaluation Capacity" was co-authored by Laura…
Kavita Batra (Medicine) and Manoj Sharma (Environmental & Occupational Health) published an article, "Investigating the Psychological Impact of COVID-19 Among Health Care Workers" in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health with coauthors from University of Utah and Coforge. It is a comprehensive meta-analysis…
Benita Wolff (Medicine) recently completed a one-year term as a visiting equity and inclusion administrative fellow for the Harvard University faculty of arts and sciences, Division of Science and the department of physics. Wolff was a member of the 2019-20 class of Harvard University's administrative fellowship program. She is the director…
Dr. Gordon Ohning (Medicine) led a group of residents and fellows through a project titled “Utility of Inflammatory Markers to Predict Adverse Outcome in Acute Pancreatitis: A Retrospective Study in a Single Academic Center,” which was published at Saudi Journal of Gastroenterology.
Ohning and his co-authors evaluated the utility of inflammatory…
Alona D. Angosta (Nursing), Andrew Thomas Reyes (Nursing), Chad Cross (Public Health), Komal Sood (Medicine) and Trevor Pollom (Anthropology) recently published an article, Cardiovascular Disease Knowledge, Risk Factors, and Resilience Level among U.S. Veterans with and without Post-traumatic Stress Disorder, in The …
Drs. Neilmegh Varada, Matthew Warren, and Kush Modi (Internal Medicine) recently presented a case report in the American Thoracic Society virtual meeting 2020.
Their case entitled “Unilateral Pulmonary Fibrosis Following Lobectomy” described an unusual presentation of unilateral pulmonary fibrosis as a sequela of lobectomy. The authors concluded…