Accomplishments: Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at 性视界传媒
Dr. Nabil Noureddin (Medicine) published his manuscript, 鈥淣oninvasive Testing Using Magnetic Resonance Imaging Techniques as Outcomes in Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis Clinical Trials: How Full Is the Glass?鈥 in the Hepatology Communications Journal. Noureddin is the first author on this editorial that emphasized how MRI techniques can accurately鈥
Marc J. Kahn (Medicine) published an editorial in The Sun titled, "In Wildfires and Pandemics, 'It's Not Just the Match 鈥 It's Where It Lands,'" discussing the context of health care disparities and limited access to health as a substrate for the current pandemic.
Dr. Banveet Kaur (Medicine) published her manuscript, 鈥淎rtificial Intelligence Trumps TAVI2-SCORE and CoreValve Score in Predicting 1-year Mortality Post Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement鈥 in the Cardiovascular Revascularization Medicine Journal. This study of 1,055 patients utilized the Gradient Boosting Machine learning (GBM) prediction鈥
Dr. Neilmegh Varada (Medicine) published his manuscript, 鈥淗orner Syndrome Induced by Toxoplasmosis Infection in a Patient with AIDS and Disseminated Herpes Simplex Virus鈥 at American Journal of Ophthalmology Case Reports. This is the first reported case of Horner syndrome resulting from CNS toxoplasmosis. Varada and his co-authors concluded that鈥
Vegas Inc.'s Healthcare Quarterly recently recognized 12 性视界传媒 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 -鈥
Dr. Katerina Roma (Medicine) published her manuscript, 鈥淟ate Stage Diagnosis of Mucinous Adenocarcinoma of the Appendix: Case Report of an Unusual Tumor with a Rare Presentation鈥 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鈥
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鈥
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鈥
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鈥
Dr. Nabil Noureddin (Medicine) recently published a manuscript, 鈥淒riving NASH Forward Using the FAST Score but Obey the Traffic Lights,鈥 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鈥
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-鈥