July 12, 2024 | Greenwood police officer John Michael O’Mara has been dealing with hearing loss since childhood. For years, he tried all manner of traditional hearing aids, but he just didn’t like the way they performed. “I was stubborn and refused to wear hearing aids,” O’Mara said. “I didn’t like the way that it sounded like a 1960s...
July 10, 2024 | The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Translational Research Institute announced today that it will receive $31.7 million to continue its role in a national effort to accelerate discoveries for the toughest health challenges facing Arkansans and people across the United States. The funding by the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) at the National...
July 9, 2024 | A weeklong volunteer project at the John L. McClellan Memorial Veterans Hospital in Little Rock gave teens from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Pathways Academy an opportunity to learn about health careers and the sacrifices that veterans have made on behalf of the nation. Pathways Academy is an educational and community engagement...
July 5, 2024 | Tom and Deb Heau have come a long way together. “I couldn’t have made it without Deb, she’s the guardian angel,” said Tom Heau, who was diagnosed with multiple myeloma in 2018. Deb Heau describes the day they found out about her husband’s illness. “It was March 1, 2018. Tom came home and said, ‘I...
July 2, 2024 | LITTLE ROCK — The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) has earned a $750,000 federal grant to help reestablish a family medicine residency program in El Dorado. The grant was awarded by the Health Resources and Services Administration, which is part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. UAMS is one of...
July 1, 2024 | LITTLE ROCK — The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) has named Ryan Cork, MSHA, as its next vice chancellor for the Northwest Arkansas Region, effective Sept. 1.
July 1, 2024 | LITTLE ROCK — The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) College of Pharmacy invested Marjan Boerma, Ph.D., director of the UAMS College of Pharmacy Division of Radiation Health and associate director of basic science in the UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute, in the J. Thomas May Distinguished Endowed Chair in Oncology in a...
July 15, 2024 | Six University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) team members recently spent a week traveling rural Arkansas backroads to provide medical coverage for the Ozark Foundation’s Arkansas Graveler event. The Arkansas Graveler is a multiday, 350-mile gravel cycling festival that takes place across rural Arkansas. This year, it started in Fayetteville on a Sunday and...
July 11, 2024 | Yulian Menyaev, Ph.D., keeps a low profile as a research associate in the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery, quietly helping researchers conduct clinical trials on potentially life-saving therapies. Outside UAMS, Menyaev is known as one of the world’s elite marathon runners. He recently completed six...
July 8, 2024 | FAYETTEVILLE — The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) has been awarded a $1.3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for its Arkansas Technology and Data Science in Health and Medicine (AR Tech-DaSH) program. The five-year grant from the NIH’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) will support an...
July 15, 2024 | The National Association of Boards of Pharmacy (NABP) recently recognized two UAMS College of Pharmacy alumni, Brenda McCrady, P.D., COP ’86, and Lenora Newsome, P.D., COP ’80, with awards for leadership. “Brenda’s dedication and service to the people of Arkansas and contributions to NABP are the reason awards like this exist to honor our exemplary...
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July 2, 2024 | The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences’ (UAMS) Center for the Study of Obesity collaborated with UAMS Culinary Medicine to pilot a cooking demonstration project at Chicot Elementary and Early Childhood Center in the Little Rock School District (LRSD). The center, which is part of the UAMS Fay W. Boozman College of Public Health, launched...
July 12, 2024 | Meet Clement Aladesofi, the MVP for July. Clement serves UAMS as a patient care technician on H9 of the Medical Center. In the course of his work, he puts into practice the UAMS values of integrity, respect, diversity and health equity, teamwork, creativity, excellence and safety.
July 9, 2024 | More than 120 young researchers and faculty members recently converged on the UAMS Little Rock campus for a drug discovery colloquium designed to sharpen their skills and prepare them for long and productive careers in research. Held at the I. Dodd Wilson Education Building, the combination event merged two annual conferences, the Drug Discovery &...
July 3, 2024 | BioVentures LLC at UAMS and The Venture Center recently announced 25 Arkansas health care and health tech companies from across Arkansas as participants in the new Arkansas Collaborative for Technological and Innovative Venture Equality (ACTIVE) program. The participating companies, led by socially and economically disadvantaged individuals with innovative, early-stage health care and health technology ventures,...
June 28, 2024 | The song “Wobble” blasted out of the speakers of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Hospital Lobby Gallery during the 2024 Juneteenth recognition, as two lines of people did the wobble line-dance. Once the song went off, the beat of the next song began. Instantly, laughter exploded inside the room. Seconds earlier, close...