For immediate release: April 4, 2008
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Governor Gibbons appoints School of Medicine's
Beverly Neyland, M.D., to state medical board

Temporary appointment aimed at addressing Hepatitis C scare in state

RENO/LAS VEGAS, Nev.— Governor Jim Gibbons appointed Beverly Neyland, M.D., a pediatrician with University Health System in Las Vegas as one of three temporary members to the state’s Board of Medical Examiners on April 2.

          While serving on the board, Neyland will deliberate issues relating to the Hepatitis C outbreak at an ambulatory surgery center in Las Vegas.

          “I hope that with these three temporary appointments to the Board of Medical Examiners the board will be able to fully and swiftly investigate the Hepatitis C crisis and help restore the people of Nevada’s faith in their healthcare system,” Gibbons said. “All three doctors are highly respected physicians who I am confident will do everything in their power to ensure Nevada’s healthcare system is the very best it can be.”

           Those appointed by Gibbons will fill the seats of Sohail Anjum, M.D.; Javaid Anwar, M.D. and S. Daniel McBride, M.D., who will excuse themselves from all matters relating to the Hepatitis C outbreak due to their relationships with a physician involved in the matter.

           Neyland practiced pediatrics in Las Vegas for 20 years before joining the University of Nevada School of Medicine and its clinical practice, University Health System, as full-time faculty. She has served as chief of pediatrics at University Medical Center and Sunrise Hospital in Las Vegas. She is past president of the Nevada Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics. She supervises residents at Kids Healthcare, University Medical Center, Sunrise Children's Hospital Nursery and the Lied Outpatient Pediatric Clinic, where she is director of Reach Out and Read.

As the state’s only public medical school, the University of Nevada School of Medicine has been a leader in healthcare, medical education and research in Nevada since 1969. The School of Medicine includes 16 clinical departments including family medicine, pediatrics, obstetrics and gynecology, internal medicine, surgery, and psychiatry and behavioral sciences, and five nationally recognized departments in basic science including microbiology and biomedical engineering. The more than 185 doctors of University Health System, the school’s clinical practice, offer care in more than 40 medical specialties and subspecialties with eight physician offices in the Reno/Sparks area and seven in Las Vegas. The school is committed to a best practices approach to medicine and is dedicated to exceptional healthcare for Nevada now and in the future. For more information visit www.medicine.nevada.edu.