May 14, 2015

May 26 Science Café — ‘Bye, Bye, Fossil Fuels; Hello, Clean Energy’

Spencer Watson

LITTLE ROCK – Science Café Little Rock, co-sponsored by the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), will hold its next public forum, Bye, Bye, Fossil Fuels; Hello, Clean Energy, on May 26. This event is rescheduled from February when it was snowed out. Panelists will discuss various forms of clean energy, as well as pluses and potential drawbacks.


May 12, 2015

UAMS Cancer Researchers Featured on VoiceAmerica

Spencer Watson

May 12, 2015 | Two UAMS researchers who are examining dog’s ability to sniff out thyroid cancer were the featured radio guests of the online broadcast Frankly Speaking About Cancer radio show, hosted by Kim Thiboldeaux, president and CEO of the Cancer Support Community, an online global network for cancer patients and their families.


May 1, 2015

Arbor Day Tree Planted for UAMS Myeloma Patients

Spencer Watson

May 1, 2015 | Though overcast skies and drizzling rain forced the festivities indoors, spirits were high as multiple myeloma patients, their families, nurses and other care providers at UAMS Medical Center, gathered to mark the April 24 planting of a young crabapple tree, both as a celebration of Arbor Day and a symbol for patients.


April 29, 2015

Health Systems Topic of McGehee Lectureship

Spencer Watson

April 29, 2015 | The UAMS Graduate School welcomed Maureen Smith, M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H., a professor at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, April 15 as the fourth annual presenter of the Robert E. McGehee, Jr. Distinguished Lectureship in Biomedical Sciences.


April 27, 2015

NICU Reunion strengthens ‘family’ bonds

Spencer Watson

April 27, 2015 | Given the close ties families with premature babies form with medical staff in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), it’s little wonder that hundreds of parents and kids turned out for a day of food and fun during the fourth annual reunion at UAMS Medical Center April 11.


April 21, 2015

Author Lectures on Influence of U.S. Surgeon General’s Office

Spencer Watson

April 21, 2015 | Associated Press national medical correspondent Mike Stobbe, Dr.P.H., can recall the specific  conversation that inspired him to write a book about the office of the U.S. surgeon general.


April 20, 2015

UAMS, UA Athletics Partner in State’s First Sports Medicine Fellowship

Spencer Watson

April 20, 2015 | The state’s first sports medicine fellowship for family physicians, offering advanced training on diagnosis and treatment of sports-related illness and injury, will start this summer on the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences’ (UAMS) northwest Arkansas campus with cooperation from the University of Arkansas Athletics Department and clinical partners.


UAMS Teams with University of Arkansas Athletics for State’s First Sports Medicine Fellowship

Spencer Watson

LITTLE ROCK — The state’s first sports medicine fellowship for family physicians, offering advanced training on diagnosis and treatment of sports-related illness and injury, will start this summer on the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences’ (UAMS) northwest Arkansas campus with cooperation from the University of Arkansas Athletics Department and clinical partners.


April 15, 2015

UAMS Names Interim Chair of Department of Radiation Oncology

Spencer Watson

LITTLE ROCK – Hershey Garner, J.D., M.D., has been named interim chair of the Department of Radiation Oncology in the College of Medicine at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS).


April 14, 2015

UAMS Presents Marvin Award to Medical Student

Spencer Watson

LITTLE ROCK – Third-year University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) medical student Nicholas A. Rogers of Little Rock is the 2014 recipient of the Horace N. Marvin Award.



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