Accomplishments: Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at 性视界传媒
Michael Hixon, Kathi Pauli, Ann Diggins, and Anne Weisman (all Medicine) held a workshop at the 2025 Learning Communities Institute (LCI) Annual Conference, titled "Clerkship Connections: Using Reflective Debrief Luncheons to Foster Community and Support Student Growth." Attendees explored the design and evolution of clerkship debrief鈥
Isabelle Avenido, Kathi Pauli, and Rosalie Kalili (all Medicine), along with individuals from Heersink School of Medicine, held a workshop at the 2025 Learning Communities Institute (LCI) Annual Conference, titled "Engaging Student Leadership in Learning Communities: Building from Scratch or Leveling Up: Practical Models,鈥
Kavita Batra, Joshua Khorsandi, and Michael Dagovetz (Medicine) published a study, "The association between COVID-19 vaccination status, knowledge, and attitudes among pre-service life science teachers in South Africa," in the Medicine journal. This was a collaborative effort from South Africa, Italy, and Spain. The study emphasizes the pressing鈥
Kathi Pauli (Medicine), director of learning communities and manager of well-being and integrative medicine, was nominated by Dr. Aftab Merchant and Ann Diggins and has received the Susan Shultz Award for Professional Staff at the 2025 Learning Communities Institute (LCI) National Meeting.
This award recognizes outstanding professional staff鈥
Acute Care Surgery Fellows Alex Chen, Alex Rowan, Chris Demme and Chris Gonzalez (all Medicine) successfully passed the American Board of Surgery's Surgical Critical Care Certifying Exam to become board-certified in critical care.
Angela Herrera, Rubaab Wahid, Jasmin Kumar, and Sunny Zhang, along with Amy Stone (all Medicine) received the Louise E. Arnold Excellence in Research or Innovation Poster Session Award with a score of 86/90 for their poster titled "How Group Closeness Shapes the Relationship Between Personality and Engagement in Medical School Learning Communities鈥
Manoj Sharma (Social & Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) and Kavita Batra (Medicine) coauthored an article in association with the Global Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases and Risk 2023 Collaborators titled, 鈥淕lobal, Regional, and National Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases and Risk Factors in 204 Countries and Territories, 1990-2023鈥 in鈥
Dr. Allison McNickle (Medicine) participated in the "Hot Topics in Pediatric Trauma: Best Practices and Review of the Literature" Panel at the 2025 Clinical Congress of the American College of Surgeons in Chicago. Her segment, Thinking BIG 鈥 Putting Pediatric Brain Injury Guidelines into Practice, reviewed management strategies for mild鈥
Henry Krasner and co-authors, Dr. Sukanta Maitra (Orthopedic Surgery) and Dr. Allison McNickle (Trauma Surgery) published the article, "A comprehensive analysis of traumatic atlanto-occipital and atlanto-axial dislocations: A case series from a level one trauma center," in Trauma Case Reports. This series reviewed the prehospital care, concurrent鈥
Salman Mohammed, Justin Bauzon, Kavita Batra, and Aditi Singh (all Medicine), along with other medical professionals, published a study titled, 鈥淏radycardia Associated with Remdesivir Treatment in Coronavirus Disease 2019 Patients: A Propensity Score-Matched Analysis,鈥 in the journal Medicine. This study examines the potential cardiac side鈥
Joshua Khorsandi, Liahm Blank, Kaloyan Momchilov, Michael Dagovetz, and Kavita Batra (all Medicine) published a study "From Ocean to Table: How Public Awareness Shapes the Fight Against Microplastic Pollution" in the journal Urban Science. Initiated and driven by medical students, the study synthesizes global public perceptions of microplastic鈥
Sharmistha Roy (Social and Behavioral Health); Ashish Kumar Biswas (Epidemiology and Biostatistics); Manoj Sharma (Social & Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) published an article titled, "Evidence-based clinical effectiveness of Kundalini Yoga: Systematic review of RCTs across multiple health conditions" in the journal, Alternative鈥