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University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine
• Amanda Wong, UNR Med Class of 2020 PA Studies Program graduate recently had the privilege of participating in a three-week aerospace medicine elective clerkship with SpaceX and their team of flight surgeons at the space flight company’s rocket development and launch facility in Boca Chica Texas, and shared her experiences.
• UNR Med's John Packham, Ph.D., Gerald Ackerman and Keith Clark discuss key topics being covered at the 2020 virtual Rural Health Day conference
• Project ECHO Nevada, an innovative health care delivery solution out of the University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine (UNR Med) is joining a nationwide training program to help keep COVID-19 from spreading in area nursing homes, and to prepare and equip staff so that they can better protect residents and themselves. This is an essential nationwide initiative in the fight against COVID-19.
• Reflections from the Dean: In This Moment
• In mid-March, as Gov. Steve Sisolak was asking Nevadans to Stay Home to limit the spread of COVID-19, a group of University of Nevada, Reno (UNR Med) medical students was thinking about the people in our community who don’t have homes.
• Yumei Feng Earley, Ph.D., M.D., associate professor, departments of pharmacology, and physiology and cell biology at UNR Med was awarded a competitive, four-year, $2.3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to support her research on increased sympathetic nervous system activity which has been found to be a primary precursor of hypertension.
• Leslie Baker, PharmD, BCGP, of the Sanford Center for Aging has been elected the first president of the newly formed Nevada Pharmacy Alliance, the state's first affiliate of the American Pharmacists Association.
• Danielle Eaton, senior director and research manager for the University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine (UNR Med) Clinical Research Center (CRC), has recently been named executive director of the Sierra Veterans Research and Education Foundation (SVREF).
• Robert Renden, Ph.D., assistant professor in the department of physiology and cell biology at UNR Med was recently awarded a competitive, three-year, $1.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to identify pharmacological approaches for restoring brain energy production, in order to treat brain-degenerative diseases associated with aging.
• UNR Med and University Health join in celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month as part of our commitment to diversity and inclusion and our ongoing efforts to increase the representation of Hispanics, and others from populations underrepresented in medicine, who serve our community as healthcare providers.
• The University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine (UNR Med) has named Jacquie Bernard as senior associate dean of administration and finance.
• Reflections from the Dean: In This Moment
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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).
• 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.
• 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 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
• 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 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.
• Black infant mortality is more than twice that of white infants, regardless of mothers’ educational or socioeconomic status.
• 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, 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.
