Miranda Morris Joins UAMS as Cancer Institute Health Educator
| LITTLE ROCK – Miranda Morris has joined the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) as a health educator and coordinator of the Patient Support Center in the UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute. She will oversee the institute’s professional and patient education programs.
Morris previously was an adjunct instructor at Pulaski Technical College in North Little Rock and an instructor at the University of Central Arkansas (UCA), teaching courses in writing, philosophy and humanities. At UCA, she developed and taught courses in the Honors College’s Interdisciplinary Studies Program and Department of Writing and Speech.
Morris received a bachelor’s degree in English from UCA and a master’s degree in women’s studies from The George Washington University in Washington, D.C.
UAMS is the state’s only comprehensive academic health center, with colleges of Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, Health Related Professions and Public Health; a graduate school; a 540,000-square-foot hospital; a statewide network of regional centers; and six institutes: the Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute, the Jackson T. Stephens Spine & Neurosciences Institute, the Myeloma Institute for Research and Therapy, the Harvey & Bernice Jones Eye Institute, the Psychiatric Research Institute and the Donald W. Reynolds Institute on Aging. It is the only adult Level 1 trauma center in the state. UAMS has 2,836 students and 761 medical residents. It is the state’s largest public employer with more than 10,000 employees, including nearly 1,150 physicians who provide medical care to patients at UAMS, Arkansas Children’s Hospital, the VA Medical Center and UAMS’ Area Health Education Centers throughout the state. Visit www.uams.edu or uamshealth.com.