School of Medicine offers free medical clinics in January
• School of Medicine offers free medical clinics in January
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University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine
• School of Medicine offers free medical clinics in January
• Faculty volunteer with visits to medical schools for evaluating them against the LCME's standards for accreditation
• Looking ahead to 2013 while reviewing the past year's long list of achievements
• Drs. Nevin Wilson and Mary Beth Hogan base research on allergy needs of patients
• School of Medicine offers free clinic for older adults in December
• Muscular Dystrophy Association gives grant of $308,000 to fund research by Associate Professor of Pharmacology Dean Burkin
• School of Medicine to recognize State EMS professionals on Nevada Rural Health Day
• School of Medicine offers free radiation screening clinic in Reno
• School of Medicine faculty & staff collaborate on training project to address methods for giving bad news about catastrophic perinatal events
• School of Medicine faculty named to U.S. News’ Top Doctors list
• Two School of Medicine alumni were recently recognized for professional achievement from the Nevada Alumni Association at the 2012 Homecoming Gala.
• Using national data from the Association of American Medical Colleges, a business website recently published a ranking of states according to number of physicians per capita. Nevada, not unexpectedly, ranks poorly, 43rd to be specific.
• University of Nevada Center for the Application of Substance Abuse Technologies receives grant for new alcohol abuse screening
• School of Medicine physician earns grants to combat HIV
• School of Medicine offers free medical clinics in November
• Susan Hill appointed director of marketing and communications for University of Nevada School of Medicine, Division of Health Sciences
• New physicians join School of Medicine’s obstetrics/gynecology department
• University of Nevada School of Medicine announces more additions to senior leadership team
• A group of medical students from the Class of 2015 helped their colleagues from the University of Nevada, Reno Orvis School of Nursing at a health fair.
• The Board of Directors of Integrated Clinical Services (ICS), the clinical practice of all School of Medicine physician faculty members, voted at its July meeting to change the name of the clinical practice, the name that is used for signage and marketing, from University Health System back to the University of Nevada School of Medicine.
• The University of Nevada School of Medicine has established a new pulmonary critical care division within the internal medicine department in Las Vegas to help meet the growing needs of the community.
• School of Medicine announces new members to leadership team
• The Nevada AIDS Education and Training Center, directed by Patty Charles, DrPH, conducted an extensive statewide needs assessment and identified issues from updating State AIDS Policy regarding the need to prepare more practitioners in the clinical care of HIV.
• The William N. Pennington Foundation continued its generous support of the School of Medicine by recently surprising its 12 current student scholarship recipients with an immediate four-fold increase in support.
• Wei Yan, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor of physiology and cell biology, has been awarded a $246,545 grant by the National Institute of Health for his study on the potential contributions of sperm-borne small noncoding RNAs to fertilization and early embryonic development.
• Union College grad earns honors as trauma surgeon
• School of Medicine offers free medical clinics in October
• School of Medicine holds ‘scrubs’ ceremony for Hug High’s Health Science Academy
• School of Medicine offers free medical clinics for September
• The School of Medicine's BS-MD program provides undergraduates at the University of Nevada, Reno and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, who set an early goal of becoming a physician, the opportunity to achieve that goal in just seven years.
• Diabetes mellitus is a serious and chronic illness that affecting millions of Americans.
• The University of Nevada School of Medicine was among five charities to receive a donation from Insomniac, the company that produces the Electric Daisy Carnival at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
• Hug High School in Reno and the University of Nevada School of Medicine continue their 20-year educational partnership when Hug's Health Science Academy opened this fall.
• The community, racial, ethnic, cultural, demographic and economic context in which medical care is delivered has always been important, but never more so than now.
• A new rapid test to diagnose melioidosis, a difficult infection to treat—and classified as a biothreat by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention—is being optimized and tested by University of Nevada School of Medicine researcher David AuCoin.
• Striving to provide clinical care across the state, the University of Nevada School of Medicine continues to expand its expertise to patients.
• School of Medicine Alumna, Caroline Graham Lamberts, M.D., leaves a legacy of caring for others
• Free radiation screening clinic offered August 25
• Faculty honored as Healthcare Heroes
• As a movement disorders internist at the University of Nevada School of Medicine's Las Vegas campus, Eric Farbman, M.D. knows firsthand the complexities of working with difficult medical conditions such as Parkinson's disease, Tourette's syndrome and Huntington's disease.
• One from the University of Hawai'i School of Medicine, the other from the University of Nevada School of Medicine.
• The fundamental change in health care that will define our work for the foreseeable future is a profound shift in how health care is purchased—from paying for physicians and hospitals to do things, to paying for quality and outcomes.
• Thirteen University of Nevada medical students, along with the non-profit group Bridges to Community, served a two-week medical mission to Nicaragua this spring.
• School of Medicine to hold 17th annual White Coat Ceremony on August 10
• School of Medicine offers free medical clinics in August
• In an effort to address the state's most pressing needs, including health care, Phil and Jennifer Satre announced a $5 million gift to the University of Nevada, Reno Foundation from the Satre Family Fund.
• The University of Nevada School of Medicine continues its partnership with two Las Vegas high schools that focus on a medical professions track for their young students.
• The School of Medicine began Nevada's first residency training program for otolaryngology this month and earned a three-year accreditation cycle for the program from the American Council on Graduate Medical Education.
• A newly-graduated University of Nevada School of Medicine student participated in a medical mission to Panama later this spring thanks to the generosity of the pediatric cardiologists of Children's Heart Center of Nevada.
• It has been a great year, thanks to all of you, and I look forward to many more.
• The nation's leading scientists and clinicians exploring treatment breakthroughs for congenital muscular dystrophy met April 22-24 on the campus of the University of Nevada, Reno, where research by School of Medicine associate professor Dean Burkin has led to a potential therapy.
• Project ECHO is coming to rural Nevada and no one is happier about this new program than Evan Klass, M.D., of the internal medicine department in Reno.
• School of Medicine holds clinician's ceremony June 29
• School of Medicine to hold Clinician’s Ceremony on June 29
• School of Medicine establishes Nevada’s first otolaryngology residency training program in Las Vegas
• School of Medicine graduates first class of medical oncology fellows
• School of Medicine physicians to provide medical care at Reno Rodeo
• School of Medicine hires Wendy Nelson as development director in Las Vegas
• School of Medicine welcomes Daniel Shapiro, M.D., as internal medicine chair in Reno
• School of Medicine holds hooding ceremony
• School of Medicine to hold free respite informational seminar
• School of Medicine offers sports physicals to high school athletes
• School of Medicine surgeon Deborah Kuhls accepted as fellow
• School of Medicine plans free seminar on coping with dementia
• Media invited to attend School of Medicine hooding on May 18
• School of Medicine’s free clinic dates announced for May, June
• Hug High School, University of Nevada School of Medicine cement partnership with Health Science Academy
• Leading experts on congenital muscular dystrophy convene at University
• Memorial service planned for medical school anatomical donors
• Graduating medical student heads to Panama for mission work
• Rheumatologist Ewa Olech, M.D., joins University of Nevada School of Medicine in Las Vegas
• School of Medicine, Department of Public Safety establish database to analyze medical costs of injury from vehicular crashes
• School of Medicine’s free April clinic dates announced
• Class of 2012 learns where they will receive residency training
• Wellness and weight management services available through University of Nevada School of Medicine
• School of Medicine’s Class of 2012 to learn residency ‘match’ results
• School of Medicine offers free radiation screening in Reno
• School of Medicine offers free fall prevention seminar on March 22
• School of Medicine’s free clinics for March announced
• School of Medicine’s free clinics for February announced
• School of Medicine offers new health care option for Northern Nevada families
• School of Medicine’s diabetes center earns accreditation
• Nevada medical student learns residency 'match' result early
• School of Medicine, High Sierra Area Health Education Center release new manual “Health Care Careers in Nevada”
• School of Medicine, Washoe County School District team up to promote health care careers
• U.S. News launches ‘Best Diets 2012’ – School of Medicine’s Sachiko St. Jeor again among the experts who rated diet