UAMS Breast Surgeon Ronda Henry-Tillman Receives National Cancer Institute Leadership Award
| LITTLE ROCK – Ronda Henry-Tillman, M.D., breast surgical oncologist and associate professor of surgery in the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) College of Medicine, has received the Community Health Research Leadership Award from the National Cancer Institute’s Center to Reduce Cancer Health Disparities.
Henry-Tillman was recognized for her work with the Arkansas Special Populations Access Network (ASPAN), a five-year grant focusing on increasing cancer control activities among Arkansas’ minority and medically underserved communities.
Henry-Tillman received the award recently at the 2004 Cancer Health Disparities Summit in Washington. She is also medical director of the Women’s Oncology Clinic in the UAMS Arkansas Cancer Research Center (ACRC) and director of the ACRC Cancer Control Outreach Center.
UAMS is the state’s only comprehensive academic health center, with five colleges, a graduate school, a medical center, five centers of excellence and a statewide network of regional centers. The school has about 2,170 students and 650 residents and is the state’s largest public employer with almost 9,000 employees. UAMS and its affiliates have an economic impact in Arkansas of about $3.8 billion a year.
UAMS centers of excellence are the Arkansas Cancer Research Center, Harvey and Bernice Jones Eye Institute, Donald W. Reynolds Center on Aging, Myeloma Institute for Research and Therapy and Jackson T. Stephens Spine and Neurosciences Institute.