September 18, 2020

UAMS to Provide COVID-19 Drive-Up Testing Sept. 24 in Berryville

Ben Boulden

LITTLE ROCK – Drive-up testing for COVID-19 will be held from 10 a.m. – 2 p.m., Sept. 24 at Berryville Community Center, 601 Dr. Spurlin Circle. There will be no out-of-pocket cost for testing. Up to 200 community members will be tested. The testing will be conducted by the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences…


September 15, 2020

UAMS Project SEARCH Interns Graduate, Overcome Unexpected Challenges

Ben Boulden

Graduates from the Project Search Class of 2020 at UAMS are, right, Tyler Barrett, Dutch Leger, Vanessa Provence, Heather Keister, Jaden Jackson, Madai Lopez Robles, Nathan Burroughs, and Hunter Hatchett. Graduates Jeremy Acord, Alec Layland, Stephan Rauhofer, and Myia Walker were unable to be in the photo.

It wasn’t how they planned, but graduation for the 12 interns in the 2020 UAMS Project SEARCH program was still about celebrating achievement. Team UAMS members Sept. 10 gave recorded video testimonials and logged in to a live streaming video to celebrate the graduating interns. Project SEARCH is a job-training program that helps young adults…


September 11, 2020

UAMS to Provide COVID-19 Drive-Up Testing Sept. 17 in Camden

Ben Boulden

LITTLE ROCK – Drive-up testing for COVID-19 will be held from 10 a.m. – 2 p.m., Sept. 17 at Cullendale First Baptist Church, 1850 Cash Road SW in Camden. There will be no out-of-pocket cost for testing. Up to 200 community members will be tested. The testing will be conducted by the University of Arkansas…


September 9, 2020

UAMS to Provide COVID-19 Drive-Up Testing Sept. 15 in Mountain Home

Ben Boulden

LITTLE ROCK – Drive-up testing for COVID-19 will be held from 10 a.m. – 2 p.m., Sept. 15 at Baxter County Fairgrounds, 1507 Fairgrounds Drive in Mountain Home. There will be no out-of-pocket cost for testing. Up to 200 community members will be tested. The testing will be conducted by the University of Arkansas for…


September 8, 2020

Six New Members Join UAMS Reynolds Institute on Aging Advisory Board

Ben Boulden

LITTLE ROCK — Six new members have joined the Advisory Board of the Donald W. Reynolds Institute on Aging at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS): Larry Alman, of Little Rock, is board chair. The new Advisory Board members are: Rebecca Farrow, of Little Rock, is a former real estate agent and former…


September 3, 2020

UAMS Researchers Awarded $11.4 Million Grant to Continue Study of Cancer Therapy Side Effects

Ben Boulden

The four new COBRE researchers are, left to right, Amanda Stolarz, Ping-Ching Hsu, Brendan Frett and Caroline Schinke.

LITTLE ROCK — Led by Marjan Boerma, Ph.D., a team of University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) researchers has received a five-year $11.4 million grant to continue research into the side effects of cancer therapies, including radiation and chemotherapies. The Centers for Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE), a program of the National Institute of General…


September 1, 2020

UAMS Awarded $3.8 Million for National Research Center To Study Effectiveness of Digital Health in Rural Health Care

Ben Boulden

Communication tower standing tall in the country side of Alabama.

The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Institute for Digital Health & Innovation has received a four-year $3.8 million grant from the federal Health Resources & Services Administration to establish a national research center. The center will examine the effectiveness of digital health in delivering health care in rural areas and hospitals. The grant…


August 31, 2020

Marsha Crader, Pharm.D., Named a Fellow of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists

Ben Boulden

Marsha Crader, Pharm.D.

LITTLE ROCK — Marsha Crader, Pharm.D., recently was named a Fellow of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) in recognition of her excellence in pharmacy practice. Crader is an associate professor in the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) College of Pharmacy Department of Pharmacy Practice. Crader earned her doctorate in pharmacy in…


August 28, 2020

Trauma, Stroke Networks Unite to Teach COVID-19 Best Practices, Share Information

Ben Boulden

Jeff Halbert, director of UAMS Respiratory Care, discusses the use the high-flow nasal cannula on an All Sites Call.

As the COVID-19 global pandemic threatened Arkansas in March, many physicians and nurses in rural hospitals across the state had more questions than answers about the new disease. UAMS went to work to answer them. The service is dubbed COVID-19 ED2ED All Sites Calls. More than 1,100 of the state’s health care professionals have taken…


August 27, 2020

Mobile Unit’s New Van Facilitates COVID-19 Testing Effort, Future Expansion Plans

Ben Boulden

Dia Partlow, left, and Mariella Hernandez get ready to help with drive-up COVID-19 testing in Magnolia. The van behind them was purchased with money from a donation by Blue & You Foundation. Bank of America also recently donated money to support the Mobile Unit.

Thanks to the Blue & You Foundation, UAMS health professionals have a new large van to get to all areas of the state to perform community COVID-19 testing. The van was purchased with a grant of $60,848 from the Blue & You Foundation, the charitable foundation of Arkansas Blue Cross and Blue Shield insurance company,…



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