Accomplishments: Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at 性视界传媒
Dr. Joshua J. Goldman (Medicine) has worked with residents in the department of plastic & reconstructive surgery as contributing authors to the StatPearls initiative, providing high quality, PubMed-indexed review articles and board-style questions on aesthetic and reconstructive surgery topics. The residents and their topics are:
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Dr. Joshua J. Goldman (Medicine) published a successful, complex reconstruction of the upper cervical spine and craniovertebral junction with a free vascularized fibula osseocutaneous flap. The case was the longest of its type with reconstruction to the skull base. This research is being followed with a meta-analysis of similar reconstructions鈥
Johan Bester (Medicine) has published an article in the American Journal of Bioethics. This article reviews the implications of ethical arguments surrounding the practice of intentionally leaving children unvaccinated to chicken pox to benefit older people. The article concludes that it is wrong to withhold what is morally owed children purely to鈥
Buddha Dawn (Medicine) co-authored an article, 鈥淎 Phase I Study to Evaluate Two Doses of Wharton鈥檚 Jelly-derived Mesenchymal Stromal Cells for the Treatment of de novo High-risk or Steroid-refractory Acute Graft Versus Host Disease,鈥 in Stem Cell Reviews and Reports. This study evaluated the safety of Wharton鈥檚 jelly MSCs in 10 patients with鈥
Dr. Awad Javaid (Medicine) recently presented his quality improvement project, 鈥淗eart Failure Quality Improvement at the Las Vegas VA鈥 at the American Heart Association鈥檚 Quality of Care and Outcomes Research Conference. His abstract was published in Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes. Javaid analyzed factors contributing to heart鈥
Dr. Jordana Haber (Medicine) published a case report, "Rare External Jugular Vein Pseudoaneurysm," in Clinical Practice and Cases in Emergency Medicine.
She also published a peer-reviewed manuscript, "Top 10 Evidence-based Countermeasures for Night Shift Workers," in Emergency Medicine Journal, addressing recommendations to increase sleep,鈥
Dr. Caleb Murphy (Medicine) published a manuscript, 鈥淭he Leadership Baseline: Assessing Servant Leadership and Leadership Self-Efficacy in First-year Health Professions Students鈥 in the Journal of Interprofessional Education and Practice. This study evaluated leadership attitudes among health professions students, an important gap in the鈥
Dr. Ross P. Berkeley (Medicine) published a manuscript, "Duty To Warn In The Emergency Department: Three Medical Legal Cases That Illustrate Provider鈥檚 Broad Risk and Liability" in the August issue of Clinical Practice and Cases in Emergency Medicine. The manuscript delves into medical-legal cases that define a physician鈥檚 duty to鈥
Jay Shen, Pearl Kim (Health Care Administration), and Ji Yoo (Medicine), along with Sung-Youn Chun and Jinwook Hwang, former international visiting scholars at the School of Public Health, and others recently published an article, "U.S. Trends of Opioid-use Disorders and Associated Factors among Hospitalized Patients with Spinal Conditions and鈥
Dr. Marc J. Kahn (Medicine) wrote an editorial that appeared on the front page of the Las Vegas Sun advocating for the growth of the academic health center at 性视界传媒 as necessary for providing quality care for the community.
Dr. Sandhya Wahi-Gururaj (Medicine) was interviewed on ways physicians should maintain their well-being in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic because of her role as the American College of Physician's Nevada Chapter Well-being Champion. Internal medicine residents Dr. Caleb Murphy, a current third-year resident, and Dr. Banreet Dhindsa, who鈥
Dr. Caleb Murphy (Medicine) recently published a manuscript titled 鈥淐hoosing Daily Labs Wisely in the Hospital: A Novel Tool for Assessing Laboratory Testing Appropriateness鈥 in Quality Management in Health Care Journal. He described an original framework for assessing the appropriateness of common inpatient laboratory tests at the point of鈥