Reflections from the Dean: In This Moment
• Reflections from the Dean: In This Moment
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University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine
2020: an unexpected year that surpassed expectations, focus of UNR Med State of the School Address
• The University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine (UNR Med) hosted its 2020 State of the School Address, an annual report on the state of the institution, medical education programs, faculty, research and clinical developments earlier this evening.
NSHE Board of Regents unanimously approve UNR Med/Renown Health LOI
• On Friday, September 11, the Nevada System of Higher Education Board of Regents unanimously approved the UNR Med and Renown Health Letter of Intent (LOI) to explore a high-level clinical integration.
UNR Med Department of Pharmacology's Heather Burkin, Ph.D. receives $1.6 million NIH award for preterm birth research
• Heather Burkin, Ph.D., assistant professor, Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology & Physiology, Department of Pharmacology at UNR Med has recently received a five-year, $1.6 million dollar award from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to study the regulation of uterine contractions in relation to preterm birth.
UNR Med medical students create a healthy curriculum for Washoe County high school students
• A team of medical students from UNR Med is creating and teaching original curriculum to promote preventative care and healthy lifestyle choices among high school students in the Washoe County School District (WCSD).
Inaugural Physician Assistant Studies Program Class of 2020 graduates from the University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine
• Two years after the University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine (UNR Med) launched its new Physician Assistant (PA) Studies Program, the inaugural class graduated in a Physician Assistant Studies Virtual Completion Ceremony, becoming the first graduates of the program.
Nevada State Public Health Lab-led team studying COVID-19 reinfection
• Scientists at the University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine (UNR Med), led by its Nevada State Public Health Laboratory (NSPHL) are studying a likely case of COVID-19 reinfection.
Renown Health & University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine announce intent to affiliate
• Renown Health and the University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine (UNR Med) announced today their intent to develop plans for a proposed long-term partnership designed to enhance Nevada’s medical education system, expand clinical research capacity in northern Nevada and create a world-class health care network.
Reflections from the Dean: Navigating medical education’s new normal
• Reflections from the Dean: Navigating medical education’s new normal
University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine welcomes class of 2024 with first virtual White Coat Ceremony
• The University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine (UNR Med) today welcomed 70 new first-year medical students with a virtual white coat ceremony. Traditionally, medical students receive their first white coats during an in-person ceremony to mark their educational journeys toward becoming physicians. This year, UNR Med’s Class of 2024 separated into three groups to don their coats in a socially distanced setting with appropriate PPE. They were then able to celebrate the pre-recorded milestone at home with their loved ones.
Research ‘rock star’ has advanced gastroenterology science and scientists
• Research led by Kent Sanders, Foundation professor and chair of the Department of Physiology and Cell Biology at the University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine, has contributed significant scientific understanding of activity in the gastrointestinal (GI) tract known as motility. His research has investigated cellular mechanisms of pacemaker activity and neural control of GI motility. For example, Sanders’ research group was the first to isolate and demonstrate the functions and mechanisms of a special class of pacemaker cells that drive motility in organs of the GI tract.
It’s past time to talk about health care disparities
• Black infant mortality is more than twice that of white infants, regardless of mothers’ educational or socioeconomic status.
Jennie Parker named as director of shared services for University Health
• University Health, the clinical enterprise of the University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine (UNR Med), has named Jennie Parker as director of shared services.
University Health Endocrinology, Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism clinical practice moves to new location in northwest Reno
• University Health, the clinical enterprise of the University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine (UNR Med), is expanding clinical locations to improve access to quality care for Nevadans, while enhancing medical education and the training of future physicians.
Dr. Dagda research team discovers possible link between psychological distress, Parkinsons’s and immune system dysfunction with possible implications to the current pandemic
• Ruben Dagda, Ph.D., associate professor of cellular and molecular pharmacology and physiology, and his research group collaborated with Mariana Grigoruta, M.D., Ph.D., a former graduate student with Dr. Dagda's research group, and Alejandro Martinez, Ph.D., from the University of Juarez in Mexico published "Psychological distress and lack of PINK1 promote bioenergetics alterations in peripheral blood mononuclear cells" in Scientific Reports.
UNR Med brain researcher receives $1 million in National Science Foundation funding to study brain synapses
• Robert Renden, Ph.D., assistant professor in the department of physiology and cell biology at the University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine (UNR Med), and the UNR Neuroscience Institute, was recently awarded a five-year, $1.1 million CAREER grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to explore how brain cells maintain the energy needed to communicate at contact sites, called synapses.
Lucia Notterpek, Ph.D., named as associate dean, Biomedical Research
• The University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine (UNR Med) has named Lucia Notterpek, Ph.D., as associate dean for biomedical research and professor of physiology and cell biology.
Reflections from the Dean: The Role a Medical School Plays in a Pandemic
• The Washoe County Health District reported its first presumptive positive case of COVID-19 on March 5, 2020. What’s transpired since has presented extraordinary challenges to northern Nevada, our state and all who live and work here.
UNR Med expert on aging will testify to U.S. Senate group
• Peter Reed, Ph.D., director of the Sanford Center for Aging at the University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine, will testify Thursday before a U.S. Senate group on older adults and COVID-19.
June is Aphasia Awareness Month
• June is Aphasia Awareness Month, a national campaign to increase public awareness about the language disorder and to recognize people who are living with or caring for people with aphasia. The University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine (UNR Med) Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology (SPA) is increasing aphasia awareness by educating the public on the effects of having aphasia, and aphasia clinical and community services available from UNR Med.
Leslie Baker hailed for leadership in pharmacy education
• Leslie Baker, PharmD, BCGP, of the Sanford Center for Aging has been named Reno Preceptor of the Year by Idaho State University's College of Pharmacy.
Dean’s Reflections: Graduating into a global pandemic
• The University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine has extraordinary medical and physician assistant studies students. And these students are going to graduate into an extraordinary world, in all definitions of the word.
University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine graduates 63 new doctors in virtual hooding ceremony
• The University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine (UNR Med) hosted its first-ever virtual hooding ceremony, conferring Doctor of Medicine (MD) degrees to 63 fourth-year medical students of the Class of 2020, graduating as northern Nevada’s newest physicians. The live-streamed virtual ceremony is now available for on-demand viewing on UNR Med’s YouTube channel.
Seeking individuals who have recovered from COVID-19 to donate plasma to help patients fighting the infection
• Individuals who have recovered from COVID-19 may now be able to help patients currently fighting the infection by donating their plasma. Those who have recovered from the infection may have COVID-19 antibodies in their blood. These antibodies provided one way for their immune systems to fight the virus when they were sick, so their blood may be used to help others fight off the disease through convalescent plasma.
Nevada State Public Health Laboratory implementing plan for limited antibody testing
• A more complete understanding of the role antibody tests can play in Nevada’s fight against COVID-19 is taking shape. Scientists at the Nevada State Public Health Laboratory will soon begin to gather critical data needed before the tests are made widely available for clinical use.