In The News: Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at ºÚÁÏÍø

ºÚÁÏÍø announced an interim dean for its School of Medicine.

ºÚÁÏÍø has always planned to add more bodies to its medical school. But under the latest funding plan, some of them will be dead.

ºÚÁÏÍø has always planned to add more bodies to its medical school, but according to the latest financing plan, some of them will be dead. The new $ 125 million scheme for the ºÚÁÏÍø School of Medicine building includes a provision for a corpse laboratory, a deviation from the university's initial plan to use a virtual anatomy laboratory, where students study human bodies and dissection on large touch screens.

A surgeon who won national recognition for directing trauma care for some of the most seriously wounded following the Las Vegas Strip massacre in 2017 is being named interim dean of the School of Medicine at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

Dr. John Fildes has been appointed as the interim dean for the University of Nevada, Las Vegas School of Medicine, effective Sept. 1, 2019.

The ºÚÁÏÍø School of Medicine has chosen University Medical Center trauma surgeon John Fildes to step into the role of interim dean as founding Dean Barbara Atkinson transitions to an advisory role.

A surgeon who won national recognition for directing trauma care for some of the most seriously wounded following the Las Vegas Strip massacre in 2017 is being named interim dean of the School of Medicine at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

Dr. John Fildes has been named interim dean for the ºÚÁÏÍø School of Medicine, effective Sept. 1, the university announced today. He will serve in the role as the university continues a national search for the next dean, officials said.

In light of the three mass shootings in the last week, Las Vegas-area agencies are offering additional resources to those still feeling the effects of the Oct. 1 mass shooting on the Strip nearly two years ago.

In the aftermath of mass shootings in Texas and Ohio that left 31 people dead in one weekend, the Vegas Strong Resiliency Center is receiving more requests for support from survivors and others affected by the Oct. 1, 2017, shooting on the Strip.
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In today’s episode, we talk with Sara Smock Jordan, Ph.D., LMFT, Associate Professor, Program Director of Marriage and Family Therapy, and Graduate Coordinator at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.