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James T. Rutka, M.D., Ph.D.
UAMS to Host Feb. 19 Lecture on Brain Cancer in Children
| LITTLE ROCK — A free, public lecture entitled “Discoveries Impacting on Survival of Children with Brain Cancer” will be held Feb. 19 at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS).
The lecture by pediatric neurosurgeon James T. Rutka, M.D., Ph.D., a professor at the University of Toronto, will begin at 5 p.m. on the 12th floor of the Jackson T. Stephens Spine & Neurosciences Institute on the UAMS campus. A reception will follow.
Rutka’s primary research and clinical interests relate to the science and surgery of brain tumors and epilepsy. He is a former president of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons, the World Academy of Neurological Surgery and the American Academy of Neurological Surgery, as well as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
The lecture is part of the M. Gazi and Dianne C.H. Yaşargil Lectureship, “Advances in Neuroscience,” which began in 2008 to honor the then-UAMS professor who was known as the “Father of Modern Microneurosurgery,” and his wife, Dianne, a former UAMS researcher and nurse.
Gazi Yaşargil, M.D., died June 11, 2025, less than a month before his 100th birthday, in Switzerland.
Parking is available at Parking 3 at 4030 W. Capitol Ave. The lecture will also be livestreamed through Zoom.
For more information and to register, please visit medicine.uams.edu/neurosurgery/yasargil-lectureship.
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 3,553 students and 1,015 medical residents and fellows. It is the state’s largest public employer with about 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.
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