Paul Harasim

You are here: Home / Health / Looking at the Life of Nevada’s First Black Female Pediatrician BY PAUL HARASIM Growing up in the 1940s, ’50s, and ’60s, Beverly Neyland realized that before her parents took her and her brother and sister on a car trip, they had to know in advance where they’d stay. The African-American girl didn’t know why, just figured it was one of those parental prerogatives. But many years later, in 2018, when “The Green Book” opened in movie theaters, she learned why.

Dr. Tammera Flores, Photo by Alyssa Hill By Paul Harasim While that observation was made in the 1700s by Benjamin Franklin as he discussed fire prevention in Philadelphia – he didn’t spend all of his time helping draft the Declaration of Independence – it reflects the proactive mindset of many of today’s physicians, including Tammera Flores, MD, and Omar Saad Sanyurah, MD, who are now training in an internal medicine specialization offered through the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV.

By Paul Harasim The problem has festered for years: Half of American children with mental health issues aren’t receiving the necessary treatment. Trying to ameliorate the problem in Nevada is the life’s work of Lisa Durette, MD.