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University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine
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It features the work of three University of Nevada School of Medicine students who have participated in Renown’s “Artist in Residency” program, which provides an opportunity for medical student artists to creatively express their experiences while aesthetically attending to the world of a hospital.
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The 100,000-square-foot EPI research & patient clinic/treatment center (Center for Molecular Medicine), now under construction at the University of Nevada School of Medicine, Reno, is on course to open this fall as planned.
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First-year students from the University of Nevada School of Medicine will honor individuals who participated in the anatomical donation program with a memorial service on Friday.
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More young men get bitten on the hands and arms while provoking a snake, while most accidental bites occur on the lower extremities, said Dr. David Fiore, associate professor and director of community medicine in the family medicine department at the University of Nevada School of Medicine in Reno.
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The University of Nevada School of Medicine’s Student Outreach Clinic will be from 8 a.m. to noon Saturday.
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Dr. Brian Bledsoe, clinical professor of emergency medicine at the University of Nevada School of Medicine in Las Vegas and an emergency room physician, has been one of the most vocal critics, arguing that helicopters have been grossly overused over the past decade.
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During her first year, the gunner mentality initially rubbed off on Rachael VanDeBogart, now a second-year at the University of Nevada School of Medicine.
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Regarding her tele-medicine focus, she noted in this program, doctors, through the University of Nevada School of Medicine, can conduct examinations via camera, including with equipment that can look into ears, eyes and a 'derm camera' that can look at the skin.
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“We spent a lot of time talking about coffee,” said Thomas Kozel, the center’s project manager from the University of Nevada School of Medicine and a professor of microbiology.
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The College of Engineering and the University of Nevada School of Medicine are ranked among the best "schools."
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University of Nevada School of Medicine pharmacology professor Iain Buxton, Pharm.D., is one of six researchers nationwide who recently received word that he will receive a share of $2.6 million in preterm birth research grants from the March of Dimes over the next three years to support his work studying the causes of preterm birth.
• Las Vegas Review-Journal
Torres, 28, graduates from the University of Nevada School of Medicine in May, before beginning a four-year residency at University Medical Center
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By using a protein that already exists in the human body, Dean Burkin, an associate professor of pharmacology in the University of Nevada School of Medicine, has found promising test results that could protect individuals from the severe muscle damage associated with Muscular Dystrophy.
• Las Vegas Sun
The board members are Dr. Maurizio Trevisan, executive vice chancellor for the Health Sciences System; Dr. Ole Thienhaus, dean of the University of Nevada School of Medicine; Dr. Karen West, dean of the UNLV School of Dental Medicine; Jean Regan, chief financial officer of the School of Medicine; Clark County Manager Virginia Valentine; county Chief Financial Officer George Stevens; UMC Chief Executive Officer Kathy Silver; and Dr. Dale Carrison, UMC’s chief of staff.
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Kathleen Keef, Ph.D., professor of physiology and cell biology at the University of Nevada School of Medicine, has been awarded a four-year, $1.2 million grant from the National Institute of Health to study the control of motility in the internal anal sphincter.
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The Board also approved special fees for UNR students passed in recent student elections, an increase in tuition and fees for students of the University of Nevada School of Medicine and the sale of property in Carlin, Nev., that houses UNR’s Fire Science Academy.
• Las Vegas Review-Journal
"Overall, the science on the question of sexual addiction is on the thin side," said Dr. Ole Thienhaus, a psychiatrist and dean of the University of Nevada School of Medicine.
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Prior to attending medical school at the University of Nevada School of Medicine, Dr. Van Tuyl completed five years on active duty with the US Navy and then stayed in the reserves assigned to the Marine Corps Force Recon (Special Forces) becoming a Navy diver while completing his undergraduate studies at the University of Nevada, Reno.
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Mutnick, 35, is a native of Las Vegas who graduated with honors from the University of Nevada, Reno and earned his medical degree with honors from the University of Nevada School of Medicine.
• Nevada News
Then Joslyn, a biochemistry and molecular biology major who will graduate in May and then will attend the University of Nevada School of Medicine in the fall, smiled: A lot of other universities kind of look down at you regarding research: ‘You’re an undergraduate. You don’t really know what you’re doing.’
• Nevada News
Wei Yan, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor of physiology and cell biology at the University of Nevada School of Medicine, has been awarded a five-year, $1.5 million grant from the National Institute of Health for studying the regulation of male fertility by small noncoding ribonucleic acids.
• Sparks Tribune
The University of Nevada School of Medicine’s Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology joined forces with other health care and medical disciplines in northern Nevada to form the University Center for Autism and Neuro-development (UCAN) team.
• Nevada News
The grant for this program was a supplement to the Nevada INBRE (IDEA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence), a National Institute of Health-supported project to develop biomedical research across the state with activities at Nevada’s research universities and colleges, directed by James Kenyon, professor of physiology and cell biology at the University of Nevada School of Medicine.
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One proposal is a 15 percent increase in tuition for the University of Nevada School of Medicine that was originally brought to the regents at their March meeting in Las Vegas.
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Doina Kulick, M.D., University of Nevada School of Medicine, Reno, and colleagues discuss the role of the registered dietitian as an important part of the surgical team.
