Accomplishments: Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at 51ԹϺ
Alina Swafford (51ԹϺ Sports Innovation Institute), Dr. Nate Hollister (Medicine), undergraduate student Scott McDonald, and John Mercer (Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences; 51ԹϺ Sports Innovation Institute) published a perspective paper representing a call to action to research circus movements. The focus of the paper is on the use of wearable…
Vaida Kazlauskaite, Brandon Eddy, and Sara Jordan (all Couple and Family Therapy) presented at the International Family Therapy Association Annual Conference in Aberdeen, Scotland. The presentation entitled "Provider Training to Help Parents with Cancer Communicate with their Children" focused on the quantitative inquiry regarding education and…
Henry Krasner, Claire Victoria Ong, Paige Hewitt, and Thomas A. Vida (Medicine) published a critical review in the International Journal of Molecular Sciences that sheds new light on what’s driving this mental health crisis: chronic stress may not just change how we feel—it may physically change how our brains work.
Mood disorders — like…
Kavita Batra (Medicine) and Manoj Sharma (Public Health), alongside the GBD 2021 Asthma and Allergic Diseases Collaborators, published a study in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine on the global burden of asthma and atopic dermatitis (1990–2021) with projections to 2050. While total cases are expected to rise, age-standardized prevalence rates should…
Dr. Jeffrey Cummings (Brain Health) will be recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general scientific society and publisher of the Science family of journals.
A tradition dating back to 1874, election as a AAAS Fellow is a lifetime honor, and all Fellows are expected to…
Buddha Dawn (Medicine) recently delivered a lecture at the Annual Conference of the International Society for Heart Research – Indian Section in Chennai, India. His talk, “Mesenchymal stem cell therapy: Translation to the clinic,” in the ‘Joint Session with ISHR – East meets West’ was focused on the significant progress in clinical applications…
Brett Allen, Alexis Knutson, Noama Iftekhar, Casey Giles, Jarrell Patterson, Joshua MacDavid, and Richard Baynosa (Surgery and Plastic Surgery) published an encompassing review article on the cutting edge field of robotic breast reconstruction.
Robert C. Wang, Suparna Shah, Jeffrey Moxley, Erik Kubiak and Muhammed F. Shand (all Medicine) published work titled, "Feasibility of Laryngeal Joint Replacement: A Proof of Concept Study in Cadavers." Their findings appeared in The Laryngoscope, a monthly peer-reviewed medical journal in the field of otolaryngology (ENT). The surgeons, working on…
Kavita Batra (Medicine), in collaboration with the GBD 2021 Japan Collaborators, co-authored the study, "Three Decades of Population Health Changes in Japan, 1990-2021: A Subnational Analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021," published in The Lancet Public Health. This research provides a comprehensive analysis of mortality, morbidity…
Kavita Batra (Medicine) as Deputy Editor and Jagdish Khubchandani as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Medicine, Surgery, and Public Health, along with Michael Wilblishauser, Fern J. Webb, and R. Andrew Yockey, published an editorial titled "Reforming Public Health Organizations in the Post-COVID Era." The commentary highlights the increasing…
Aaron Peterson, Philip Borsellino, Ryder Davidson, Edozie Ezeanolue, Gemma Lagasca, Jared Diaz, Kavita Batra, and Anne Weisman (all Medicine) presented their research findings on "The Effectiveness of Mind-Body Intervention on Psychological Well-Being During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Pilot Interventional Study" at the International Conference on…
Acute Care Surgery fellows Kevin Petersen, Vivek Pamulapati, and Christopher Demme (Medicine) presented challenging trauma cases to a panel of surgeons as part of the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma's "Experts on the Hot Seat" national webinar series. The panel was moderated by acute care surgery program director Allison McNickle.