Accomplishments: Department of Environmental and Global Health
Carolee Dodge Francis (Environmental and Occupational Health) and M. Crystal Lee (Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies) made a presentation at the 16th session of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues at the United Nations this month. The presentation, 鈥淭he Impact of National and International Policies on Indigenous Health and Well-鈥
Saruna Ghimire and Karen Callahan (Environmental and Occupational Health) recently published an article, "Nutritional Assessment of Community-Dwelling Older Adults in Rural Nepal," in the Public Library of Science with Binaya Kumar Baral from the Department of Biochemistry in the Nepal Medical College and Teaching鈥
Amanda Sokolowsky, Erika Marquez, Erin Sheehy, Casey Barber, and Shawn Gerstenberger (Environmental and Occupational Health) recently authored "Health Hazards in the Home: An Assessment of a Southern Nevada Community," which appeared in the February issue of Journal of Community Health. The study focused on health outcomes in鈥
Qing Wu (Nevada Institute of Personalized Medicine and Environmental and Occupational Health) received a 性视界传媒 IDeA Pilot Grant in the amount of $70,389 for his pilot study to develop personalized bone mineral density reference values. The study seeks to determine how genetic factors contribute to normal bone mineral density variation in鈥
Paulo Pinheiro, Karen Callahan, Nevena Cvijetic, and Rachel E. Kelly (all Environmental and Occupational Health) collaborated with the Nevada Central Cancer Registry and the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center of the University Miami Miller School of Medicine to produce a telling publication about breast cancer rate disparities鈥
Dr. Qing Wu (Nevada Institute of Personalized Medicine and Department of Environmental & Occupational Health) was awarded a Mountain West IDeA Clinical and Translational Research鈥揑nfrastructure Network (CTR-IN) Pilot award. Wu's project is titled "Develop Personalized Reference Values of Bone Mineral Density".
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Jay Shen, Chris Cochran, and Charles Moseley (all Health Care Administration and Policy) and Guogen Shan (Environmental and Occupational Health), published a paper, 鈥淩acial and Insurance Status Disparities in Patient Safety Indicators among Hospitalized Patients," in the summer issue of Ethnicity & Disease. Other co-authors are Olena Mazurenko鈥
Mark Buttner and Patricia Cruz (both Environmental and Occupational Health) received a one-year, $1.2 million award from the Nevada department of health and human services to conduct molecular biological environmental monitoring.
Szu-Ping Lee (Physical Therapy) received a $13,505 grant from the Mountain West CTR-IN and National Institute of General Medical Sciences of the National Institutes of Health for his 鈥淧rosthetic Assessments of Gait and Mobility in Individuals with Lower Limb Loss鈥 research study, which will explore functional mobility and limb loading鈥
Guogen Shan (Environmental and Occupational Health) is the author of a book, Exact Statistical Inference for Categorical Data, that has been published by Academic Press. The book is a comprehensive review of conditional and unconditional exact approaches to statistical inference and presents the advantages of using exact inference in data鈥
Patricia Cruz, Mark Buttner, and Theresa Trice (all Environmental and Occupational Health) and Katherine Howard (Dental) published an article, "Development of a Polymerase Chain Reaction Assay for the Rapid Detection of the Oral Pathogenic Bacterium, Selenomonas noxia," in the August issue of BMC Oral Health. 性视界传媒 master of public health鈥
Reimund Serafica, Alona Angosta (both Nursing), and Sheniz Moonie (Environmental and Occupational Health) are the authors of an article, "Measuring Enjoyment of Ballroom Dancing in Filipino Americans Using the Physical Activity Enjoyment Scale," which recently was published in the peer-reviewed publication Asian Pacific Island Nursing Journal.