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Schmieding Foundation Gives $500,000 to Support STEM-H Academy in Springdale

June 23, 2022 | LITTLE ROCK — The Schmieding Foundation, Inc., gifted $500,000 to Springdale’s Pathway Academy, which will be renamed the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Schmieding Foundation Pathways Academy of Springdale in recognition of the nonprofit’s continued support for UAMS. The Pathways Academy program is a statewide initiative managed by the UAMS Division of Diversity,...

Andrew Vogler
“I was very pleased to be able to offer Dave this novel immunotherapy, which takes the patient’s own immune cells and genetically re-programs the cells to attack the myeloma,” Puente's doctor Frits van Rhee said. “I am very excited that Dave tolerated the treatment well and that he has had an excellent response to it.”
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Myeloma Patient Celebrates Full Remission by Walking Daughter Down the Aisle

June 17, 2022 | Dave Puente of Elk Grove California, the first myeloma patient in Arkansas to receive the new chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell immunotherapy at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) last November, recently saw a very personal goal he’d set for himself become a reality. Late last year, during an interview for an article...

Linda Haymes
Two patient navigators from the Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute
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UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute Launches Statewide Cancer Navigation Program

June 8, 2022 | The UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute is implementing a new statewide patient navigation program to help cancer patients across the state access needed prevention, screening, treatment and support services. The program serves all Arkansans regardless of provider. “We know advances in cancer treatment may not reach underserved communities, especially in low socioeconomic areas and...

Marty Trieschmann
U.S. Marines with 1st Marine Logistics Group view burn pit at Al Taqaddum Air Base, Iraq, Sept. 22, 2008.
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UAMS, CAVHS Studying Health Effects of Arkansas Veterans’ Exposure to Burn Pits in Middle East

June 7, 2022 | LITTLE ROCK — More than 300 Arkansas veterans will become part of a new study conducted by the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) and the Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System (CAVHS) to determine if exposure to open pit burning and molecular-level changes are associated with chronic health conditions. The Department of Veterans Affairs...

David Robinson

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UAMS employees deliver boxes of food during COVID-19 pandemic

UAMS Researchers Link Pandemic to Increased Food Insecurity in Arkansas

June 24, 2022 | FAYETTEVILLE — Researchers at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences found that 1 in 4 Arkansans faced food insecurity in the first several months of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a study published recently in Dialogues in Health. The study, “COVID-19 and Food Insecurity in a Vulnerable Rural State,” analyzed various factors related to...

David Wise
Craig Forrest, Ph.D., is leading research to better understand how gammaherpesvirus promotes mutations that lead to lymphomas.

NCI Funds UAMS Study of Possible Links between Gammaherpesvirus Infections and Lymphomas

June 22, 2022 | LITTLE ROCK — A possible link between gammaherpesviruses and lymphomas will receive further study at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) with a National Cancer Institute (NCI) grant. The five-year, $1.25 million grant renewal will mostly support ongoing work to better understand how gammaherpesvirus promotes mutations (chromosomal translocations) that lead to lymphomas. In...

Seth Hooker
Stella Bowers and Rebecca Camp

Annual Sickle Cell Disease Symposium Highlights Multiple Barriers to Care

June 22, 2022 | Adult sickle cell patients continue to benefit from increased awareness and newly available therapies. However, lack of research funding and access to care, as well as perceived bias from health care professionals, are still impediments to better care. That was the message from the annual UAMS Sickle Cell Symposium, held virtually June 10. The symposium...

Benjamin Waldrum

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Maternal & Child Health Program Presents Forum to Help Support Mothers In Crisis

June 15, 2022 | In Arkansas, there are companies, nonprofits, ministries and individual citizens dedicated to helping mothers who are in crisis. The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences’ Fay W. Boozman College of Public Health Maternal & Child Health Program brought several of those entities together for its annual summit. This year’s topic was “Supporting Mothers in Crisis.”...

Kev' Moye
Trena Spears
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UAMS, Palace Drug Partner to Provide Community Health Worker in Fulton County

June 24, 2022 | FAYETTEVILLE – Trena Spears was hired recently through a partnership between the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) and Palace Drug to help people in Fulton County navigate the health care system. As an embedded community health worker, Spears is available to answer basic health care questions and provide education and resources to the...

David Wise
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UAMS Gap Services Offers Health Screenings June 27 in McGehee

June 21, 2022 | LITTLE ROCK — Free food, health information, health screenings and more will be available from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. June 27 at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Gap Services office in McGehee. The office, which opened in May at 1609 E. Ash St. in McGehee, provides free health services, as well...

Linda Satter
Chancellor Cam Patterson responds to a question as Chief of Staff Michael Manley looks on during the Town Hall meeting.
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Town Hall Highlights Campus Safety, Digital Health, Workday Transition

June 20, 2022 | The Chancellor’s Town Hall meeting held June 16 focused on issues of campus safety, digital health efforts and UAMS’ transition to the Workday management system. Watch video of the June 16 Town Hall meeting. Robert Barrentine, chief of the UAMS Police Department, spoke first about ways that employees can protect themselves in the event of...

Chris Carmody
UAMS community outreach event
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UAMS, AFMC Partner to Provide Community Health Worker in Searcy County

June 17, 2022 | FAYETTEVILLE – Marcus Glass, of Marshall, was hired recently through a partnership between the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) and Arkansas Foundations for Medical Care (AFMC) to help people in Searcy County navigate the health care system. As an embedded community health worker, Glass is available to answer basic health care questions and...

David Wise
COVID-19 Vaccination
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Study Shows That Arkansas Minorities Experienced Abnormally High Rates of COVID-19 Infection

June 1, 2022 | LITTLE ROCK — Researchers from multiple Arkansas agencies conducted an eight-month study which revealed that the state’s Hispanic and Black populations had higher COVID-19 infection rates than whites. This project, which Open Forum Infectious Disease published, used seroprevalence of antibodies to COVID-19 as an indicator. Antibodies are created by a person’s immune system once they...

Kev' Moye
UAMS community outreach event
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UAMS, Arkansas Rural Health Partnership Partner to Provide Community Health Workers in Chicot County

June 24, 2022 | FAYETTEVILLE – Four community health workers were hired recently through a partnership between the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) and Arkansas Rural Health Partnership to help people in Chicot County navigate the health care system. As embedded community health workers, Autumn Bridwell, Jana Kamal, Anna Ragland, and Ileen Talavera are available to answer...

David Wise
Mina Nguyen-Driver
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Mina Nguyen-Driver, Psy.D., Joins UAMS Schmieding Development Center as Pediatric Psychologist

June 21, 2022 | FAYETTEVILLE — Mina Nguyen-Driver, Psy.D., has joined the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) as a pediatric psychologist at the UAMS Schmieding Developmental Center in Springdale and as a professor in the College of Medicine Department of Pediatrics. Nguyen-Driver’s specialty is providing evaluation and treatment for children with complex developmental and medical concerns, using...

David Wise
UAMS community outreach event
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UAMS, AFMC Partner to Provide Community Health Worker in Polk County

June 17, 2022 | FAYETTEVILLE – Alexandria Renault, of Mena, was hired recently through a partnership between the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) and Arkansas Foundation for Medical Care (AFMC) to help people in Polk County navigate the health care system. As an embedded community health worker, Renault is available to answer basic health care questions and...

David Wise

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