Accomplishments: School of Dental Medicine
Dr. Jo-Lawrence Bigcas (Medicine), Dr. Sonal Shah (Dental), and ENT resident Dr. William Montagne (Medicine), along with a colleague at Washington State University, co-authored "Diagnosis and Prognostic Implications of Primary Intraosseous Carcinoma: A Case Report and Literature Review," which published Sept. 11 in the journal Cureus. The article鈥
Kenneth Izuora (Medicine), Amalie Alver (Medicine), Arpita Basu (Kinesiology), Kavita Batra (Medicine), Shelley Williams (Dental Medicine) and Jeffrey Ebersole (Dental Medicine) published 鈥淭he Association of Dietary Micronutrient Intake and Systemic Inflammation among Patients with Type 2 Diabetes: A Cross-Sectional Study鈥 in the journal鈥
Dr. Maryam Tabrizi (Dental) accepted an appointment to the 13-member Advisory Committee on the State Program for Oral Health, which is charged with advising and making recommendations to the Division of Public and Behavioral Health concerning the Oral Health Program. Advisory committee members serve for two years and may be reappointed to another鈥
Katherine Howard, Karl Kingsley, Brendon Yu, and Nathaniel Kruse (all Dental) recently published their study, "Downstream Target Analysis for miR-365 among Oral Squamous Cell Carcinomas Reveals Differential Associations with Chemoresistance," in the journal MDPI Life.
Dr. Christina Demopoulos (Dental) and Joshua Baker (Education) received a $5,000 grant from the Society for the Advancement of Behavior Analysis for a project focused on expanding the implementation of a behavior approach within Clark County to help reduce patients鈥 resistances to dental treatments. Research provides sufficient evidence that a鈥
Dr. Sonal Shah (Dental) received the Community Faculty of the Year award from the 51吃瓜网万能科大 Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine Department of Otolaryngology (ENT) during their residents graduation dinner. The award is for recognition and appreciation of significant contributions in ENT resident education. During her two years working with the department鈥
Dr. Christina Demopoulos (Dental) received a grant of $140,000 from the Division of Health Care Finance and Policy Medicaid Dental Services Program to expand the Seal Nevada South, school-based sealant outreach program. The award will be divided almost equally between the 2024-2025 school year and the 2025 - 2026 school year. The funding enables鈥
Victoria Sullivan, Arash Farhadian, Mayce Issa, and Karl Kingsley (all Dental) recently published the study, "Analysis of Pediatric Pulpotomy, Pulpectomy, and Extractions in Primary Teeth Revealed No Significant Association with Subsequent Root Canal Therapy and Extractions in Permanent Teeth: A Retrospective Study," in the MDPI journal Pediatric鈥
Jessica Immonen (Dental), Ph.D., M.S., received the Clinical Anatomy Senior Faculty Award for her presentation at the annual American Association of Clinical Anatomists (AACA) Conference recently held at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York, New York. Her presentation was titled, "Biomechanics of Bruxism Determine the Sites of Severe TMJ鈥
Philip Punzalan, Tanya Al-Talib, Anthony Fusco, Neamat Hassan (all Dental) recently published their study titled, "Effect of Dietary Components on the Shear Bond Strength of Orthodontics Brackets after Thermal Aging," in the Open Journal of Stomatology.
Jessica Immonen (Dental), Linh Nguyen (Dental) and Jason Ciccotelli (Physical Therapy) published an article titled "Biomechanics of Bruxism Potentially Determine the Sites of Severe TMJ Osteoarthritis" in Biomechanics. They mentored a group of dental students and a dental resident in their work (David Patterson, Samantha Pipkin, Nathan Kent,鈥
Victoria Sullivan, Anna Roman, Carly Johnson, and Karl Kingsley (all Dental Medicine) published their study "Analysis of Pediatric Oral Health Outcomes Reveals Differences Between English and Limited English Proficiency (LEP) and Non-English Speakers" in the journal EC Pediatrics.