Accomplishments: Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV
Vegas Inc.'s Healthcare Quarterly recently recognized 12 UNLV School of Medicine faculty physicians as "Top Docs" in its summer issue.
Those recognized are:
Dr. Buddha Dawn - Cardiology
Dr. Matthew Ng - Ear, Nose, and Throat
Dr. Robert Wang - Ear, Nose, and Throat
Dr. Kenneth Izuora - Endocrinology
Dr. Gordon Ohning -…
Dr. Katerina Roma (Medicine) published her manuscript, “Late Stage Diagnosis of Mucinous Adenocarcinoma of the Appendix: Case Report of an Unusual Tumor with a Rare Presentation” in the BMC Gastroenterology. After a thorough literature review, she reported for the first time a case of mucinous adenocarcinoma of the appendix presenting as…
Renato "Rainier" M. Liboro (Psychology), Jason Flatt (Environmental and Occupational Health), and Dr. Samuel Parrish (Medicine), served as panelists on a virtual presentation on "Health Disparities in the LGBTQ+ Community," earlier this month. The event was presented to diverse students of the School of Medicine and was sponsored by the registered…
Dr. John Fildes, Dr. Michael Gardner, and Dr. Deborah Kuhls (all Medicine) have been recognized by Nevada Business Magazine as Healthcare Heroes for 2020. The awards are:
Fildes in the Lifetime Achievement category
Gardner in the Humanitarian category
Kuhls in the Physician category
They were selected by a panel of judges from the Nevada…
Dr. Joshua J. Goldman, Dr. Richard Baynosa (both Medicine) and the Department of Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery were awarded a $5,000 Breast Reconstruction Awareness Fund Public Awareness Award to directly support efforts to increase breast reconstruction surgery awareness and education to women and their family members. Nevada is in…
Dr. Nabil Noureddin (Medicine) recently published a manuscript, “Driving NASH Forward Using the FAST Score but Obey the Traffic Lights,” in Hepatology Journal. He is the first author on the paper that commented on a recent study that developed a non-invasive score to identify patients at risk of progressive nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH…
Dr. Mahendran Jayaraj (Medicine) has been appointed by the American College of Gastroenterology to its International Relations Committee for a three-year term that will end in 2023.
Dr. Marc J Kahn (Medicine) and his colleagues published an article, "When Are Results of Single-arm Studies Dramatic?" in Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology. Although randomized phase three studies are a gold standard in medicine, this article describes an algorithm for determining when clinical go/no-go decisions can be made using data from single-…
Dr. Joshua J. Goldman (Medicine) has worked with residents in the department of plastic & reconstructive surgery as contributing authors to the StatPearls initiative, providing high quality, PubMed-indexed review articles and board-style questions on aesthetic and reconstructive surgery topics. The residents and their topics are:
Dr. Aradhana…
Dr. Joshua J. Goldman (Medicine) published a successful, complex reconstruction of the upper cervical spine and craniovertebral junction with a free vascularized fibula osseocutaneous flap. The case was the longest of its type with reconstruction to the skull base. This research is being followed with a meta-analysis of similar reconstructions…
Johan Bester (Medicine) has published an article in the American Journal of Bioethics. This article reviews the implications of ethical arguments surrounding the practice of intentionally leaving children unvaccinated to chicken pox to benefit older people. The article concludes that it is wrong to withhold what is morally owed children purely to…
Buddha Dawn (Medicine) co-authored an article, “A Phase I Study to Evaluate Two Doses of Wharton’s Jelly-derived Mesenchymal Stromal Cells for the Treatment of de novo High-risk or Steroid-refractory Acute Graft Versus Host Disease,” in Stem Cell Reviews and Reports. This study evaluated the safety of Wharton’s jelly MSCs in 10 patients with…