UAMS to Host Aug. 25 Virtual Presentation on ‘Safety of COVID-19 Vaccines and Pregnancy’
| LITTLE ROCK — Two physicians from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) will speak Aug. 25 on the safety of COVID-19 vaccines during pregnancy.
Nirvana Manning, M.D., and Robert Hopkins Jr., M.D., will present “Safety of COVID-19 Vaccines and Pregnancy” at noon, Aug. 25 on Zoom. There will be a Q&A session at the end of their presentation. Joseph Sanford, M.D., director of the UAMS Institute for Digital Health & Innovation, will act as the moderator.
The session is free and open to the public. The link for the presentation is uams.health/COVID19Lecture.
Manning is the chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at UAMS, where she also serves as director of women’s health services and as vice chair of clinical care. She is a member of many professional organizations including the Association of Professors of Gynecology and Obstetrics, the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology, the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and the American Medical Association.
Hopkins is a professor of Internal Medicine and Pediatrics and serves as the chief of the Division of General Internal Medicine, associate program director for the Med-Peds residency and in 2020-21 has served as medical director for COVID-19 testing and vaccination at UAMS. He has held a number of national and local leadership positions including current service as chair of the National Vaccine Advisory Committee and as a member of the Arkansas Department of Health Vaccine Medical Advisory Committee.
UAMS is the state’s only health sciences university, with colleges of Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, Health Professions and Public Health; a graduate school; a hospital; a main campus in Little Rock; a Northwest Arkansas regional campus in Fayetteville; a statewide network of regional campuses; and eight institutes: the Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute, Jackson T. Stephens Spine & Neurosciences Institute, Harvey & Bernice Jones Eye Institute, Psychiatric Research Institute, Donald W. Reynolds Institute on Aging, Translational Research Institute, Institute for Digital Health & Innovation and the Institute for Community Health Innovation. UAMS includes UAMS Health, a statewide health system that encompasses all of UAMS’ clinical enterprise. UAMS is the only adult Level 1 trauma center in the state. UAMS has 3,275 students, 890 medical residents and fellows, and five dental residents. It is the state’s largest public employer with more than 12,000 employees, including 1,200 physicians who provide care to patients at UAMS, its regional campuses, Arkansas Children’s, the VA Medical Center and Baptist Health. Visit www.uams.edu or uamshealth.com. Find us on Facebook, X (formerly Twitter), YouTube or Instagram.###