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University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine
• KOLO Channel 8 News
Over at UNR’s school of medicine, Associate Dean for Diversity and Inclusion Nicole Jacobs says the trend has been a gradual, decades-long process. “Back in 1966 only 7% of medical students were female,” explained Jacobs. ”I’ve been here for over 12 years and have seen the class sizes slowly increasing.” Jacobs added that while UNR’s medical school is almost exactly 50/50, nationally there are more women in medical schools.
• Northern Nevada Business View
On Dec. 19, Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak announced the appointment of 11 members and an executive director to the Patient Protection Commission (PPC). John Packham, Ph.D., associate dean for the Office of Statewide Initiatives at the University of Nevada, Reno, School of Medicine, was named chairman of the panel that is tasked with identifying ways to improve healthcare affordability and quality in Nevada.
• KOLO Channel 8 News
Dr. Mark Pandori is the lab's latest director.“We are tucked away here. But really the amount of testing, the variety testing we do is extremely broad,” says Dr. Mark Pandori, the Nevada State Public Health Lab Director.The lab is affiliated with the UNR School of Medicine and is located on the north end of campus.
• Las Vegas Sun
An associate dean at the UNR School of Medicine has been named chairman of an 11-member state panel tasked with identifying ways to improve health care affordability and quality in Nevada.Gov. Steve Sisolak announced Thursday that Dr. John Packham will head the Patient Protection Commission created by the Legislature this year.
• KRNV Channel 4 News
An associate dean at the University of Nevada, Reno, School of Medicine has been named the chairman of an 11-member state panel tasked with identifying ways to improve health care affordability and quality in Nevada.Gov. Steve Sisolak announced Thursday that Dr. John Packham will head the Patient Protection Commission created by the Legislature this year.
• The Washington Times
An associate dean at the University of Nevada, Reno, School of Medicine has been named chairman of an 11-member state panel tasked with identifying ways to improve health care affordability and quality in Nevada. Gov. Steve Sisolak announced Thursday that Dr. John Packham will head the Patient Protection Commission created by the Legislature this year.
• KOLO Channel 8 News
A study from the Journal of the American Medical Association shows 70% of women believe there is minimal to no harm from using marijuana during pregnancy. One recent study shows about 16% of pregnant women smoke marijuana on a daily basis. “I think that using marijuana has more social acceptability now because of the legalization,” says Dr. Catherine McCarthy, a professor with the University of Nevada Reno School of Medicine Family Practice Program.
• UTSA Today
The Department of Biology’s John McCarrey is now part of a renowned group of researchers collaborating to investigate men’s reproductive health in a study through the National Center for Translational Research in Reproduction and Infertility. McCarrey, along with the University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine, and The Lundquist Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center are now part of the newly created Center for Male Reproductive Epigenomics.
• Nevada Today
University experts discuss five ways the rural health care sector brings in millions of dollars and hundreds of jobs for rural Nevada counties
• Elko Daily Free Press
Nevada Health is getting closer to its goal of raising $3.9 million to renovate and expand the health center. The project is the second phase of the campaign which began with the renovation of the back wing of the 50-year-old Elko Family Medical and Dental Center building to house Nevada Health Center and the UNR School of Medicine’s rural residency program in 2018.
• Las Vegas Review-Journal
The Nevada State Public Health Laboratory has a new director. Mark Pandori will lead the lab and be a full-time faculty member at UNR Med, teaching medical students, fellows and residents in the field of microbiology.
• KNPR Nevada Public Radio
A growing program could help with health care in rural Nevada. Project ECHO links primary care physicians in rural and underserved urban areas with groups of specialists through telemedicine connections. Dr. Mordechai Lavi is the medical director for the project in Nevada. He said the program works to multiply the efforts of health professionals.
• Oral Health
New research from the University of Maryland School of Dentistry (UMSOD) and the University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine (UNR Med) finds evidence that points to physical differences among groups of people with schizophrenia.
• KNPR Nevada Public Radio
John Packham is the associate dean for the Office of Statewide Initiatives at the University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine. Its mission is to improve healthcare around the state. He said one of the problems with the Nye Regional Medical Center, which closed in 2015, and other rural health centers is there are not enough in-patients to justify a full hospital.
• Northern Nevada Business View
On Nov. 16, roughly 40 Northern Nevada high school girls were equipped with power tools, pins, clamps and rods that enabled them to saw through artificial bone during mock surgery sessions while learning the basics of orthopedic surgery and engineering concepts at the University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine.
• Dentistry Today
Patients suffering from a specific form of schizophrenia have a wider oral palate than people with other forms of the disease and people without schizophrenia, according to an international team of researchers led by the University of Nevada Reno School of Medicine (UNR Med) and the University of Maryland School of Dentistry (UMSOD).
• Nevada Current
Over the past decade Nevada has seen steady growth in the number of licensed health professionals, including the addition of almost 900 doctors over the past two years, said John Packham, associate dean for the Office of Statewide Initiatives at the University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine.
• Decisions in Dentistry
New research from the University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine (UNR Med) and University of Maryland School of Dentistry (UMSOD) suggests patients with deficit schizophrenia have a wider oral palate than people with other forms of the disease, as well as those without the mental disorder.
• Fox 11 News Reno
Nearly 40 young women took part in a hands-on STEM program Saturday to prepare for careers in medicine and engineering.
• KTVN Channel 2 News
Local northern Nevada high school girls got to learn hands-on, today, with power tools, pins, clams and rods as a part of a program that teaches young girls about the importance of going into orthopedic surgery and engineering.
• Elko Daily Free Press
The University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine Office of Statewide Initiatives, Nevada State Office of Rural Health and Nevada Rural Hospital Partners hosted CEOs and clinicians from 15 rural Nevada communities at a Rural Health Day event this week to address the challenges and solutions to the statewide shortage of primary care doctors and specialists.
• KRXI (FOX)
UNR Med is kicking off its annual Rural Health Care day this Thursday. Health care leaders from around the state come together to address the challenges with rural health.
• Decisions in Dentistry
New research from the University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine (UNR Med) and University of Maryland School of Dentistry (UMSOD) suggests patients with deficit schizophrenia have a wider oral palate than people with other forms of the disease, as well as those without the mental disorder.
• Northern Nevada Business View
Following a collaborative recruitment between the University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine and Carson Tahoe Health, Lorrel Toft, M.D., F.A.C.C., a cardiovascular critical care physician and researcher, was recently hired as an associate professor for UNR Med’s Department of Internal Medicine, as well as a cardiologist on staff with Carson Tahoe Health.
• Healio Cardiology Today
“Overall, this study demonstrated that EPA (in a higher dose, 1,800 mg/day) in conjunction with standard statin therapy could be a very promising drug in preventing major adverse CV events and, therefore, it should be added to the conventional statin therapy at a very early phase for maximal benefits,” Rajkumar Doshi, MD, MPH, internal medicine resident physician at University of Nevada Reno School of Medicine, and colleagues wrote. “This is especially important, as EPA has mild to none documented side effects but shown to have significant favorable profile as shown in this study.”
