Accomplishments: Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at 51ԹϺ

Dean Dr. Marc J. Kahn (Medicine) has been elected to the Association of American Medical College's (AAMC) Council of Deans Administrative Board.  He will serve on the 12-member leadership group for the council of deans, comprised of the deans of all US allopathic medical schools. Prior to last week's AAMC meeting in Atlanta, Kahn was…
Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) coauthored an article titled, “Multi-theory model (MTM) and change in childbearing behavior:  A perspective,” with coauthors from Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences in Iran in the Journal of Research Development in Nursing and Midwifery. The article presents a view…
Kavita Batra (Medicine), Ravi Batra, Ying Guo (both Public Health), Mina Atin (Nursing), and Bryar Shareef (Computer Science) co-authored a paper titled "Promise and Peril of Artificial Intelligence: Digital Monoculturalism in a Robotic World," published in the Advances in Medicine, Psychology, and Public Health journal. Dr. Kavita Batra, an…
Kavita Batra (Medicine) and a team of global scholars, including Srikanta Banerjee (Walden University), Jagdish Khubchandani, Elizabeth England-Kennedy, and Karen Kopera-Frye (all from New Mexico State University), along with Rhonda McIntyre (Ross University School of Medicine), have published a study titled "Cognitive Functioning Influences…
Kavita Batra (Medicine) and Manoj Sharma (Public Health) published a study "Global, regional, and national stillbirths at 20 weeks' gestation or longer in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2021: findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021" in Lancet. This study found that in 2021, the global stillbirth rate was 23·0 (95% uncertainty…
The Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at 51ԹϺ Marketing and Communications Department is proud to announce they have won a Graphic Design USA (GDUSA) Health+Wellness Design Award™ for the second year in a row.  GDUSA, greatly respected in the world of graphic design, has been a source of news and information for designers and the broader…
Zahra Dossaji, Mark Hsu,  Kyaw Min Tun, Adam  Khattak, Jonathan Hansen, Kavita Batra, and Vignan Manne (all Medicine) published an abstract "Investigating Clinical Characteristics and Outcomes of Hypoxic Hepatitis: A Single Institutional Study" in the American Journal of Gastroenterology. 
Magnus Chun, Kavita Batra, Lily Liu, Kyaw Min Tun, Robert Gish (all Medicine) published an abstract "Is Octreotide Adjunctive Therapy Advantageous in Non-Variceal Gastrointestinal Bleeding? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis," in the American Journal of Gastroenterology.  
Magnus Chun, Kyaw Min Tun, Tahne Vongsavath, Kavita Batra, David Limsui, Erin Jenkins (all Medicine) published an abstract in the American Journal of Gastroenterology.  
Vidhani S. Goel, Ana L. Reyes, Bertille Assoumou, Dodds P. Simangan, Megumi Akiyama, Deborah A. Kuhls, and Kavita Batra (all Medicine) along with Farooq Abdulla from United Healthcare, Nevada, presented their study "Maternal substance abuse and neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) admission among Medicaid beneficiaries: a state-wide audit" at the…
Asma Awan (Social and Behavioral Health) and Kavita Batra (Medicine) presented a poster, “Integration of public health informatics dashboard into State Systems Development Initiative (SSDI): A quality improvement initiative for marginalized youth healthcare," on the digital platform at the American Public Health Association 2024 Annual Meeting (…
Lloyd Jensen Medicine) gave an initial presentation on "Importancia y organizacion del sistema de transporte pediatrico y neonatal" at the annual Instituto Nacional de Pedinatalogogic de Mexico- Curso Hibrido Internacional de Transporte Medico Pediatrico y Neonatal.