Governor Gibbons appoints University Health System's Beverly Neyland, M.D., to state medical board
Back to All News Items04-04-2008
Author: Anne McMillin, APR - (email)
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 Wednesday.
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.
University Health System, the clinical practice of the University of Nevada School of Medicine, offers care in more than 40 medical specialties and subspecialties with eight physician offices in the Reno/Sparks area and seven in Las Vegas. Specialties include family medicine, internal medicine, obstetrics and gynecology, pediatrics, psychiatry and behavioral sciences, and surgery. As the largest multispecialty healthcare focus in the state, University Health System's more than 300 doctors practice and teach medicine throughout Nevada. For more information visit www.uhsnevada.org.
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