Accomplishments: Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at 51ԹϺ
Sara Hunt (Behavioral Health Sciences; Mental and Behavioral Health Coalition) was recognized at the Nevada Psychological Association's (NPA) annual conference with the Outstanding Contribution to NPA Award.
Each year, the Nevada Psychological Association recognizes professional contributions to the organization and the practice of…
Kenneth Izuora (Medicine) co-authored the American Association of Clinical Endocrinology (AACE) Comprehensive Type 2 Diabetes Management Algorithm — 2023 update.
In the American Geriatrics Society 2023 Annual Scientific Meeting, interdisciplinary 51ԹϺ 'NIHAN' and UNR Sanford Center ICECAP project teams — Sidkazem Taghva, Mingon Kang (Computer Science); Jay Shen, Pearl Kim, Yonsu Kim (Healthcare Administration & Policy; Public Health), Laurie Kim, Ji Yoo (Medicine) — were invited to present…
Salman Mohammed, Kavita Batra, Ariyon Schreiber, Justin Bauzon, and Ahsan Chowdhury (all Medicine) presented a poster, "Predictors of Intubation In COVID-19 Patients Treated With Remdesivir: A Single Institution Retrospective Study," at the American College of Physicians (ACP) National Abstract Competition. Mohammed is a medical student with the…
Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) received a grant of $449, 611 from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)’s “National Initiative to Address COVID-19 Health Disparities among Populations at High-Risk and Underserved” administered through the Nevada State Health and Human Services Department. He is the…
Vishvaas Ravikumar and Jacob Berkowitz (both School of Medicine Class of 2023), under the mentorship of clinical assistant professor Dr. Ramalingam Ratnasabapathy (Medicine) presented their clinical vignette, “Novel Presentation of B-ALL in a Patient in Remission from ALL”, at the ACP National Conference 2023 in San Diego. They qualified as both…
Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) coauthored a paper entitled, “COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy: a systematic review of cognitive determinants,” in the journal, Health Promotion Perspectives (Impact Factor 3.18) with authors from Tabriz University of Medical Sciences. The article highlighted initiation and maintenance…
Dr. Gregory Brown, M.D., (Psychiatry; Medicine) published an article in the 5-PATH International Association of Hypnosis Professionals Journal, Vol. 33, Spring: "Psychiatric Medications and Hypnosis." The article reviews major medication classes used in psychiatry and their general lack of impairing the ability to enter the 6 levels of hypnotic…
Ross P. Berkeley, M.D., (Emergency Medicine) and Rachel Kelly (Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine Class of 2022 graduate) recently published a manuscript titled, "The Glasgow Coma Scale: A Disconnect between Medical Documentation and Traumatic Brain Injury Litigation in the United States," in the peer-reviewed Medico-Legal Journal.…
Asma Awan (Social and Behavioral Health) and Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) presented an oral presentation titled, “Consumer Satisfaction Survey for a COVID-19 Health Program Evaluation: The RQFSM Framework for Process Evaluation,” at the International Aegean Conferences Social Sciences and Humanities – VII held in…
Asma Awan (Social and Behavioral Health) and Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) presented a paper titled, “Community-based participatory evaluation of public health initiatives: a strategic gap analysis using the RQFSM (reach, quality, fidelity, satisfaction, management) framework,” at the 7th International Conference…
Associate professor Jingchun Chen (NIPM) and colleagues were awarded a grant on March 1, 2023.
Title: The impact of COVID-19 on Alzheimer’s disease, focusing on sharing genes and pathways in immune cells from the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) Foundation grant for one year with $100,000.
This grant is to…