February 23, 2023
Lambda Nu Chapter Inducts 35 New Members
![Lambda Nu logo](https://news.uams.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/LambdaNuLogo-Feb2023-150x150.jpg)
The UAMS Chapter of Lambda Nu inducted 35 students into its membership during a virtual ceremony on Feb. 10. Lambda Nu is a national honor society for the radiologic and imaging sciences. Students and faculty who participated in the ceremony are in programs in the College of Health Professions Department of Radiation & Imaging Sciences…
January 27, 2023
UAMS Dental Hygiene Program Offers Free Sealant Clinic for Children on Feb. 18
![Dental hygiene students do the preparatory work for applying a dental sealant to some of the teeth of one of the 56 children who came to March sealant clinic with their families.](https://news.uams.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/DHsealantclinic-featured-150x150.jpg)
The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Department of Dental Hygiene is offering a free Sealant Clinic from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Feb. 18 at Freeway Medical Tower, 5800 W. 10th St., Suite 501.
January 9, 2023
January MVP — Toby Belknap
![Toby Belknap, M.D.](https://news.uams.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/TobyBelknap-MVP-Jan23-post-150x150.jpg)
Meet Toby Belknap, M.D., the MVP for January. Toby serves as a Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist in the UAMS Psychiatric Research Institute. In the course of his work, he puts into practice the UAMS values of integrity, respect, diversity and health equity, teamwork, creativity, excellence and safety.
December 23, 2022
UAMS Trauma Team Helps Save Sherwood Man after 30-Foot Fall
![Josh Pretty, seated, gives a thumbs up just before he leaves UAMS Medical Center for what would turn out to be a shorter-than-expected stay in a local rehabilitation hospital. His wife, Alissa Pretty, third from the right, also does the same.](https://news.uams.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Josh-Pretty-discharge-patienstory-featured-150x150.jpg)
Even though Josh Pretty can’t remember what happened to him, his family and friends will never forget his fall Nov. 12 from the top of a 30-foot ladder while hanging Christmas lights from a customer’s house. They didn’t anticipate the accident or the sight of the severe injuries he received from it.
December 22, 2022
UAMS Garners Multiple Honors in 2022 while Fulfilling Missions
![The year of 2022 was one of transition from COVID-19 pandemic restrictions and the Omicron surge in case numbers to, by the fall, in-person classes for students, public events and an easing of safety protocols.](https://news.uams.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/YIR2022-featured-150x150.jpg)
Two years of battling the pandemic and its effects resulted in a 2022 that was the closest yet to a pre-COVID normal at UAMS. The university never faltered in its devotion to its missions. UAMS seized the opportunity the year brought to renew its focus on them in a way that earned it praise and…
December 14, 2022
December MVP — Eva Gerbitz
![Eva Gerbitz](https://news.uams.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Gerbitz_Eva-MVP-Dec2022-post-150x150.jpg)
Meet Eva Gerbitz, MNSc, RN-BC, the MVP for December. Eva serves UAMS as a nurse informaticist in UAMS Clinical Informatics. In the course of her work, she puts into practice the values of UAMS. Please read what one of her nominators wrote about how she does that.
November 22, 2022
UAMS Signs Pledge, Joining Group Committed to Decarbonizing Health Care Sector
![Chancellor Cam Patterson, right, shares a thumbs-up moment with Little Rock Mayor Frank Scott Jr. after the mayor turned on one of the generators in the new power plant at the conclusion of the formal opening of the facility.](https://news.uams.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Power-Plant-Start-Up-featured-150x150.jpg)
The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) recently joined more than 100 health care organizations nationwide in pledging to take action to decarbonize the health care sector and make their facilities more resilient to the effects of climate change.
November 4, 2022
November MVP — Yingni Che
![Yingni Che, November 2022 MVP](https://news.uams.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/YingniChe-MVPNov2022-post-150x150.jpg)
Meet Yingni Che, the MVP for November. Yingni serves UAMS as a research associate in geriatrics in the UAMS Donald W. Reynolds Institute on Aging. In the course of her work, she puts into practice the UAMS values of integrity, respect, diversity and health equity, teamwork, creativity, excellence and safety. Please read what her nominator…
October 7, 2022
UAMS Dental Hygiene Program Offers Free ‘Fall for Smiles’ Clinic for Children on Oct. 15
The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Department of Dental Hygiene is offering a free Fall for Smiles clinic Oct. 15 from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Freeway Medical Tower, 5800 W. 10th St., Suite 501.
October 5, 2022
October MVP — Kenyon Coiley
![Kenyon Coiley, October 2022 MVP](https://news.uams.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Coiley_Kenyon-MVP-Oct2022-featured-150x150.jpg)
Meet Kenyon Coiley, the MVP for October. Kenyon serves UAMS as a food preparation supervisor in UAMS Patient Food Services for the Psychiatric Research Institute. In the course of his work, he puts into practice the UAMS values of being polite, friendly, respectful, thoughtful, optimistic and compassionate. Here’s what his nominator wrote: Kenyon has worked…
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