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University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine
• The transition from medical school to residency is notoriously one of the hardest of our career. As an intern, you work long hours and have an immense amount to learn. It's very common to feel overwhelmed, judged and generally cynical. And now with an entirely uprooted health care landscape from a global pandemic, you may find yourself with many difficult days ahead.
• According to the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention, all Americans 16-years or older are now eligible to get vaccinated. However, as COVID-19 vaccines roll out, many marginalized communities, nationally, are falling behind on receiving the vaccine. Nevada's Latino community is no exception.
• In response to the global need for effective sterilization techniques, researchers from the University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine (UNR Med) and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) collaborated on a study evaluating the efficacy of a dry-sanitizing device. Subhash Verma, Ph.D., associate professor, department of microbiology and immunology at UNR Med, led the study. Verma, Timsy Uppal, Ph.D., research scientist, department of microbiology and immunology, UNR Med; Antoine Snijders, Ph.D., biologist staff scientist, Berkeley Lab; and Amir Khazaieli, Fathhome, Inc., collaborated on the study on inactivation of coronavirus by a dry sanitization device, published in the journal, Pathogens.
• Northern Nevadans who are uninsured, underinsured or without a social security number can receive free medical care at upcoming University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine (UNR Med) Student Outreach Clinics and Rural Outreach Clinics, in Lovelock and Yerington, Nevada. UNR Med offers the free clinics in a continuing effort to assist the region's medically uninsured with needed health care services.
• The University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine (UNR Med), has received approval following an internal University review process to hold an in-person commencement for graduating medical students event in May 2021. The approval follows the University of Nevada, Reno's approval to hold in-person commencement ceremonies.
• Dean’s Reflections: It’s Up To You
• The University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine (UNR Med) has named Aaron Dieringer, M.D., MPH, as assistant dean of admissions and chair of the admissions executive committee.
• At UNR Med, we wholeheartedly understand that our diverse faculty, staff and learners strengthen our teaching, scholarship and clinical care missions. Like most medical schools, our mission is tied to excellence in teaching, research and patient care. One of the things that makes UNR Med so special, however, is our mission’s fourth pillar: excellence in diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI).
• U.S. News & World Report has released the 2022 edition of Best Graduate Schools today, featuring new rankings of the University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine (UNR Med). UNR Med's rankings in U.S. News & World Report Best Graduate Schools 2022 reflect improvement in several areas, as well as strong performances in new categories.
• Dean’s Reflections: Match Day results reveal new opportunities to learn and do good
• Fourth-year medical students from the University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine (UNR Med) were among the approximately 18,000 medical student nationwide who learned where they will spend their residencies today as part of Match Day - including in northern Nevada, throughout the state and across the nation.
• The University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine (UNR Med) has named Myron J. Gomez, M.D., FACS as a co-chair of UNR Med's department of surgery.
• The year was 1969. Nevada Governor Paul Laxalt was signing Assembly Bill 130, officially creating the University of Nevada School of Medicine. Across the country, Mary Turner was a copy editor for a scientific magazine with dreams of becoming a doctor.
• Researchers at the University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine (UNR Med), in partnership with the University of Nevada, Reno School of Community Health Sciences, Immunize Nevada and the Nevada Department of Health and Human Services, released the latest findings from an ongoing study to learn what Nevadans think about COVID-19 vaccines, and their acceptance toward taking the vaccine - once one is available to them.
• Renown Health and University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine (UNR Med) leadership provided an informational update to the Nevada System of Higher Education (NSHE) Board of Regents at its March 5 meeting on the due diligence process undertaken by both organizations to explore an intent to affiliate that would lead to the first fully integrated health system in northern Nevada.
• Lorrel Toft, M.D., UNR Med cardiologist, associate professor, along with colleagues, Nina Williams M.D., Warren Clinic Cardiology of Tulsa, Oklahoma; Melanie Sulistio, M.D., University of Texas, Southwestern School of Medicine, Division of Cardiology; David Winchester M.D., M.S., University of Florida Health, Division of Cardiology; and Christine Chen M.D., University of Texas, Southwestern School of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, have published "How to Build an Anti-Racist Cardiovascular Culture, Community, and Profession," in the in Journals of the American College of Cardiology (JACC).
• A Nevada-based study of SARS-CoV-2, the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19, indicates all major lineages (variants) of the virus worldwide are present in Nevada. Interestingly, the analysis shows some differences between the northern and southern parts of the state, with Southern Nevada presenting a virus snapshot similar to the rest of the country and Northern Nevada being dominated by one specific variant bearing a unique mutation in the gene needed for making its RNA copies. RNA viruses tend to accumulate mutations while circulating in human populations and SARS-CoV-2 is no exception. The majority of these mutational variations do not alter virulence of the viruses, but certain changes, such as the United Kingdom (B.1.1.7) and South African (B.1.351) variants, seem to have altered the transmission and infectivity of SARS-CoV-2.
• Northern Nevadans who are uninsured, underinsured or without a social security number can receive free medical care at upcoming University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine (UNR Med) Student Outreach Clinics and Rural Outreach Clinics, in Lovelock, Silver Springs and Yerington, Nevada. UNR Med offers the free clinics in a continuing effort to assist the region's medically uninsured with needed health care services.
• The Nevada State Public Health Laboratory (NSPHL) at the University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine (UNR Med) has detected the first known case of probable B.1.351 South African variant in Nevada.
• Dean’s Reflections: Finding the good in a very bad year
• Nevada State Public Health Laboratory detects new COVID-19 strain B.1.1.7 in Nevada
• Researchers at the University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine (UNR Med), in partnership with the University of Nevada, Reno School of Community Health Sciences, Immunize Nevada and the Nevada Department of Health and Human Services, released the first findings from an ongoing study to learn what Nevadans think about COVID-19 vaccines, and their acceptance toward taking the vaccine - once one is available to them.
• Scott Earley Ph.D., Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Director of the Center for Molecular and Cellular Signaling in the Cardiovascular System at UNR Med has recently received the Outstanding Investigator Award (OIA) from the National Institutes for Health (NIH) National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.
• Researchers at the University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine (UNR Med), in partnership with the University of Nevada, Reno School of Community Health Sciences, Immunize Nevada and the Nevada Department of Health and Human Services, are conducting a study to learn what Nevadans think about COVID-19 vaccines and their acceptance toward taking the vaccine once one is available to the public.
• Death can advance life. Anatomical donors - those who donate their bodies to medical education and research after passing away, teach medical students about far more than gross anatomy. Anatomical donors essentially become medical students' first patient by posthumously teaching them how to care, work as a team and develop a sense of curiosity and scientific discovery. Anatomical donors also teach medical students how to navigate emotions they'll face when delivering bad news and helping patients through difficult treatments, in order to make them well again.
