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Johnathan Goree, M.D., Named Arkansas Physician of the Year by Arkansas Business

April 3, 2020 | Johnathan H. Goree, M.D., an anesthesiologist who specializes in chronic pain and director of the Chronic Pain Division at UAMS was named Arkansas Physician of the Year on April 2 at the Arkansas Business Healthcare Heroes celebration. The annual awards event was held virtually on YouTube because of the COVID-19 pandemic. In presenting the awards,...

Amy Widner
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College of Nursing

Skelly Grant Funds Digital Health Equipment for Nursing Students

March 26, 2020 | The UAMS College of Nursing has been awarded a grant from the Gertrude E. Skelly Charitable Foundation to purchase equipment to educate both graduate and undergraduate students in digital health. The grant includes $24,000 in funding, which will be matched by funding from the college. “We want to train students to use devices, such as...

Spencer Watson
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Heart

Student Doesn’t Miss a Beat with New Leadless Pacemaker

March 17, 2020 | Last year at this time, Catherine (Kathi) Clevenger was running an average of six miles every day and would spend her free time studying at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. But around August, she noticed something was off. She would occasionally experience shortness of breath, heart palpitations and fainting. “Sometimes I would wake...

Katrina Dupins

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Jennifer Hunt, M.D., left, screens a patient for COVID-19 during a UAMS-led drive-through screening in Helena.

UAMS Provides COVID-19 Screening to Helena, Delta Residents

April 3, 2020 | As the van carrying UAMS health care professionals arrived in Helena early April 2, residents of Helena and the surrounding Delta region were already lining up in their vehicles to receive the drive-through COVID-19 evaluation UAMS was about to provide. By 9:45 a.m., the team from the main campus in Little Rock and from UAMS...

Ben Boulden
Bank of America has given $37,000 to help cover costs associated with screening, testing and treating patients with COVID-19, specifically items such as personal protective equipment like gloves, gowns and masks, as well as thermometers.

Bank of America Gives $37,000 to Support UAMS Prevention and Treatment of COVID-19

April 2, 2020 | LITTLE ROCK – Bank of America has made a $37,000 gift to a recently established COVID-19 support fund at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. The COVID-19 Support Fund will cover costs associated with screening, testing and treating patients with COVID-19, specifically items such as personal protective equipment like gloves, gowns and masks, as...

Benjamin Waldrum
(L-R) Nishank Jain, M.D., M.P.H., Margarete Kulik, Ph.D., M.Sc., and Yasir Rahmatallah, Ph.D., were selected as the inaugural class of Data Scholars.

Translational Research Institute Announces Inaugural Class of Data Scholars

March 31, 2020 | The Translational Research Institute has selected three Data Scholars for its inaugural 2020-21 class. The institute’s Data Scholars Program supports UAMS faculty in learning and applying the principles and methods of data analytics and data sciences to inform clinical practice and policy. Scholars will pursue formal course work in addition to mentoring during their data-driven...

David Robinson

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UAMS’s Barnes Becomes President of American Association of Hip and Knee Surgeons

April 1, 2020 | C. Lowry Barnes, M.D., chair of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), took office as the 30th president of the American Association of Hip and Knee Surgeons during its board of directors video conference March 25. The meeting was to be held during the annual American Association...

Spencer Watson
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Research

Repository to Help with Presentations Planned for COVID-19 Canceled Meetings

March 30, 2020 | As the presentation of many research faculty members’ academic work in national and regional meetings has been affected by COVID-19 cancellations, UAMS has created a Scholarly Product Repository to mitigate the problem. The repository provides a location to collect peer-reviewed and accepted abstracts, posters and other academic products and disseminate them. Not only will it...

Ben Boulden
Ahmed Sallam, M.D., Ph.D., and patient Jim Winter.
Harvey & Bernice Jones Eye Institute

Floater Removal Gets Patient Back on the Tennis Court

March 26, 2020 | Jim Winter realized something was wrong on the tennis court. “In the last three to four years, I started having difficulty seeing tennis balls on the tennis court,” said Winter, a retired emeritus research professor at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock Winter was also having trouble working on a computer or reading books...

Spencer Watson
IM Residents 2020
News Release

UAMS Names 12 New Internal Medicine Resident Physicians in Northwest Arkansas

March 27, 2020 | FAYETTEVILLE – The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) announced the 12 new internal medicine resident physicians who will begin practicing medicine in Northwest Arkansas on June 17. The new residents are: Raad Abbas, MBChB – Hometown: Warr Acres, Okla. Mamua Andela, M.D. – Hometown: Olathe, Kan. Ethan Anderson, DO – Hometown: Columbia, Mo....

David Wise

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