UNLV’s medical education building to honor Las Vegas gaming pioneer
UNLV School of Medicine and its first permanent facility will be named after the late Kirk Kerkorian, a Las Vegas gaming pioneer known as the father of the Las Vegas megaresort.
The naming of The Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV was announced Thursday by the Nevada Health & Bioscience Corp. — which is overseeing and raising money for the medical education building project — at a news conference at the construction site.