Jaineet “Jai” Chhabra, MD – a resident in the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV Department of Family and Community Medicine – has long had an interest in sports, but his role has evolved from being an athlete to caring for athletes, as well as people who want to become more active.

Dr. Chhabra’s initial interest in athletics led him to eventually play for two top-ranked, high school basketball teams. During that time, he chose to attend a basketball-focused college preparatory school, but shortly before leaving home at age 15, he learned that his father, Amarinder Chhabra, MD, was suffering from symptoms that would eventually be diagnosed as nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) – an atypical presentation of a disease that was causing his liver to deteriorate at a young age. Despite this diagnosis, his father encouraged his family to continue on and not use his condition “as an excuse to quit anything.”

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