Jan. 21, 2021 | Mia Nelson, 19, knew for a while she wanted to become a health care professional. She is surrounded by plenty of inspiration. Her mother, Natalie Nelson, is an ultrasound technologist. And her father Richard Nelson, M.D., is a radiologist. After her experience as a patient at the UAMS Medical Center, Mia Nelson decided the UAMS...
Jan. 19, 2021 | LITTLE ROCK — The Board of Oncology Social Work Certification (BOSWC) recently chose Harold Dean, LCSW, OCW-C, clinical social work program manager for the Myeloma Center at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) to serve on its board. Dean will serve for three years. The BOSWC, established in 2003, promotes excellence in psychosocial...
Jan. 19, 2021 | LITTLE ROCK — The new UAMS Health Back and Neck Clinic launched today, combining the best of established programs to offer team-based care at one convenient location, 10815 Colonel Glenn Road in Little Rock.
Jan. 14, 2021 | The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences’ kidney and liver transplant programs received high national rankings in biannual data released Jan. 5 by the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients. The SRTR evaluates the status of the nation’s solid organ transplant system and publicly releases the data every December/January and June/July at the directive of the...
Jan. 13, 2021 | More than 65,000 patients across Arkansas now have better access to seamless care with the conversion of University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Regional Campuses to Epic electronic medical record software. Epic has been used in central Arkansas at the UAMS Medical Center and UAMS clinics for approximately eight years. Epic allows UAMS physicians...
Jan. 12, 2021 | C. Lowry Barnes, M.D., chair of Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), has been named one of “65 total knee replacements surgeons to know” by Becker’s Healthcare. “I’m grateful to be mentioned in such company by such an authoritative voice in the world of health care,” said Barnes. “That recognition...
Jan. 4, 2021 | Confetti flew while cheers and applause echoed down a UAMS Medical Center hallway as UAMS Chancellor Cam Patterson, M.D., MBA, guided Michael Kent in a wheelchair between rows of exuberant physicians, nurses and staff. Kent was the 1,000th COVID-19 patient to be discharged and to start his journey home. Kent, who works as a senior...
Jan. 14, 2021 | LITTLE ROCK — The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) will begin offering COVID-19 vaccines to Arkansans aged 70 and older as well as teachers and other education workers, including K-12, child care and higher education, on Tuesday, Jan. 19. Vaccines will be administered in a UAMS clinic on the seventh floor of the Freeway Medical Tower at 5800 W. 10th St. in Little Rock. Appointments are required.
Jan. 12, 2021 | LITTLE ROCK — Data experts with the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) have uploaded clinical images of COVID-19 patients to a publically available national database that scientists can use in researching the disease and its impact in a global pandemic. Initial findings were published in the journal Nature, Scientific Data that describe de-identified...
Jan. 11, 2021 | Carina Torres Sanvicente, M.D., has joined the Harvey & Bernice Jones Eye Institute at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) as a glaucoma specialist. “We are extremely fortunate to have Dr. Sanvicente join us to contribute fellowship-trained expertise in treating our glaucoma patients,” said Paul Phillips, M.D., director of the Jones Eye Institute...
Oct. 15, 2020 | Building bridges and partnerships to eliminate rural health disparities was the focus Sept. 25 of the 2020 Community-Campus Partnership Conference. The conference, presented by UAMS, brought together virtually over 200 community leaders, students, researchers, health care workers and stakeholders to discuss strategies that enhance the development and sustainability of community-campus partnerships in an effort to...
Oct. 7, 2020 | Researchers spent two days recently, distraction free, writing at the 2020 UAMS Fay W. Boozman College of Public Health Scholarly Writing Retreat. The retreat provided an environment for researchers, students, faculty, post-docs, and community partners to come together and enhance their writing skills and dissemination of research findings. In particular, the retreat aimed to increase...
Jan. 21, 2021 | These programs were first broadcast the week of January 25, 2021.
Jan. 21, 2021 | Water service in the Shorey Building will be shut down from 9 a.m. - 4 p.m., Saturday, Jan. 23 to facilitate pumbling repair work.
Jan. 21, 2021 | Are you interested in lifting weights, but you’re not sure where to start? Women on Weights is a five-week training program designed to teach you proper form when weightlifting.
Jan. 21, 2021 | The next continuing education event in PRI's Project Echo weekly video conference will be "Medication Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder."
Oct. 8, 2020 | Researchers at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) have been awarded $1.3 million to study disparities in immune response to SARS-CoV-2, known as COVID-19, through serological testing in Arkansas. Serological testing measures a person’s immune response to an infection in the form of antibodies in the blood. The project will contribute to short-...
Oct. 5, 2020 | Lee Butler loves to garden. Her family and her neighbors all enjoy the abundant foliage of hosta plants and ferns as well as the blooms on the rose and azalea bushes surrounding her Sherwood home. “People ask me how I have time to make them all so beautiful. I tell them, “It didn’t start out...
Jan. 21, 2021 | Chancellor Cam Patterson, M.D., MBA, will hold a Town Hall at noon, Friday, Jan. 22, on Zoom. Topics of discussion will include COVID care and resources, the surge plan, staffing projections, vaccinations and equity and inclusion.
Jan. 21, 2021 | In this Conversation with Cam, I speak with Mande Corbett, coordinator of the UAMS Stocked & Reddie food pantry, now located in the Monroe building on our Little Rock campus. The pantry serves as many as 1,600 members — students as well as UAMS and Arkansas Children’s Hospital employees.
Jan. 21, 2021 | From 10: 30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Jan. 26, UAMS Cafeteria will celebrate International Day in January with a menu featuring Australian main entrees.
Jan. 21, 2021 | The UAMS Police is writing to inform the UAMS Community of individuals shooting at pedestrians with paintballs, around the UAMS Little Rock Campus vicinity.