April 6, 2018

Pain Management Symposium April 28 to Focus on Pain Management Solutions for Primary Care Providers

Ben Boulden

April 6, 2018 | Health care professionals are invited to the 2018 Arkansas Pain Management Symposium on April 28 at University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS). It is designed to provide high-quality continuing education to an interprofessional audience to improve chronic pain treatment in the state. The symposium will be 8 a.m. – 5…


April 4, 2018

March Man-ness Takes to the Court for Fifth Win

Ben Boulden

Patrick Pettus, left, talks with a volunteer at March Man-ness at Saint Mark Baptist Church. It was the second year Pettus attended the annual event.

April 4, 2018 | Although UAMS doesn’t field a sports team, the UAMS 12th Street Health & Wellness Center’s students and clinicians represented the university well March 24 on the basketball court at its fifth annual March MAN-ness Health Event. On the gym floor at Saint Mark Baptist Church in Little Rock, the center’s students…


March 29, 2018

Westbrook, Robertson, Wendel Recognized as Healthcare Heroes

Ben Boulden

Selected Healthcare Heroes for 2018 by Arkansas Business are (from left) Paul Wendel, M.D., Women’s Health & Wellness; Kent Westbrook, M.D., Lifetime Achievement Award; and Ron Robertson, M.D., Physician of the Year.

March 29, 2018 | Three longtime UAMS physicians were honored by Arkansas Business as Healthcare Heroes at a luncheon March 28. The annual awards program was begun in 2015 to recognize individuals, companies and organizations making a significant impact on the quality of health care in Arkansas. Kent Westbrook, M.D., a distinguished professor in the…


March 27, 2018

Free Family Caregiver Workshop to be April 17 in Little Rock

Ben Boulden

March 27, 2018 | The Schmieding Home Caregiver Training Program of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) will hold a free family caregiver workshop April 17 for those who would like to learn about caring for an adult with dementia or Alzheimer’s disease. The workshop, which is open to the public, will be…


March 20, 2018

Northwest Arkansas Naturals to Host ‘Strike Out Stroke Night’ April 5

Ben Boulden

March 20, 2018 | To help Arkansans learn how to survive stroke, the Northwest Arkansas Naturals baseball team is making its April 5 opening game of the 2018 season “Strike Out Stroke Night” in partnership with the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS)-led statewide stroke program, AR SAVES. A helicopter will bring Washington Regional…


UAMS South Women’s Health Practitioner Sees Rising Demand for Her Expertise

Ben Boulden

March 20, 2018 | Apart from her knowledge and training, Adriane Delaney, women’s health nurse practitioner, has something special to offer the patients at the UAMS South Regional Campus in Magnolia — herself. Health care providers often are in short supply in rural parts of the United States and south Arkansas, and patient demand for…


March 19, 2018

UAMS Dean Keith Olsen First Pharmacist Named Chancellor of American College of Critical Care Medicine

Ben Boulden

March 19, 2018 | Keith Olsen, Pharm. D., F.C.C.M., dean of the College of Pharmacy at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), recently was named chancellor of the American College of Critical Care Medicine (ACCM), becoming the first pharmacist to lead the national organization. Olsen has served on the Board of Regents of…


March 14, 2018

Boot Camp, BioVentures Propel Researcher into Award-winning Business

Ben Boulden

Rejuvenix CEO Joshua Phillips, left, Jay Gandy, Ph.D., and Amanda Stolarz, Pharm.D., Ph.D., Rejuvenix Technologies chief science officer, stop outside the offices of BioVentures before meeting with BioVentures director Nancy Gray, Ph.D.

March 14, 2018 | Sometimes a motivation and an idea grounded in the academic world make the same journey and reach the same destination together. They did for Amanda Stolarz, Pharm.D., Ph.D. in 2016. At the Entrepreneurship Boot Camp in the summer of 2016, Stolarz’s motivation to do purely academic research met up with an…


March 8, 2018

UAMS 12th Street Center to Host ‘March Man-ness’ at Saint Mark Baptist March 24

Ben Boulden

March 8, 2018 | – The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) 12th St. Health & Wellness Center invites the public to participate in free health care services at its “March Man-ness Men’s Health Event” on March 24 at Saint Mark Baptist Church in Little Rock. While this event focuses on men’s health, women…


March 6, 2018

Free Family Caregiver Workshop to be held March 21

Ben Boulden

March 6, 2018 | The Schmieding Home Caregiver Training Program of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) will hold a free family caregiver workshop March 21 for those who would like to learn about caring for an adult with dementia or Alzheimer’s disease. The workshop, which is open to the public, will be…



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