June 15, 2015

UAMS Welcomes Texas 4000 Bicyclists

Kelly Gardner

LITTLE ROCK — The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) today welcomed about 30 University of Texas students as they rode through Little Rock on the longest annual charity bicycle ride in the world. The Texas 4000 team visited the UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute and UAMS Myeloma Institute as a stop along…


June 23 Science Café — ‘The Upside of Aging?’

Kelly Gardner

LITTLE ROCK – Science Café Little Rock, co-sponsored by the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), will hold its next public forum, The Upside of Aging?, on June 23. Panelists will discuss the physical, mental and emotional changes that come with age, as well as research advances and insights into disease mechanisms. Held from…


June 12, 2015

UAMS Receives $40,000 from Mexican Consulate to Continue Community Health Partnership

Kelly Gardner

June 12, 2015 | The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Fay W. Boozman College of Public Health today received $40,000 from the Mexican Consulate in Little Rock to continue a partnership begun in 2010 that provides health education, screenings and referrals to health care providers for those with needed services for more than…


UAMS, Mexican Consulate Continue Community Health Partnership

Kelly Gardner

LITTLE ROCK — The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Fay W. Boozman College of Public Health today received $40,000 from the Mexican Consulate in Little Rock to continue a partnership begun in 2010 that provides health education, screenings and referrals to health care providers for those with needed services for more than 30,000…


June 11, 2015

UAMS Celebrates Physical Therapy Students, Power of Therapy

Kelly Gardner

June 11, 2015 | UAMS welcomed the first 24 students to the Doctor of Physical Therapy program on its northwest Arkansas campus during a June 9 event that also reunited a longtime program supporter with the therapist who helped him overcome polio-induced paralysis as a teenager. Students in the program, based on the Fayetteville campus, will…


UAMS, American College of Physicians Collaborate To Increase Adult Immunization Rates in Arkansas

Kelly Gardner

LITTLE ROCK – The Arkansas chapter of the American College of Physicians (ACP), together with the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), the Arkansas Pharmacists Association and the Arkansas Immunization Action Coalition are partnering with the national ACP in a major new effort called I Raise the Rates with the goal of raising adult vaccination…


Third Class of Physician Assistant Students Receive White Coats

Kelly Gardner

June 11, 2015 | Thirty-four students in the third class of the physician assistant program in the UAMS College of Health Professions received their white coats in a May 22 ceremony with guidance to see it as a symbol of joining the profession, becoming a servant of the sick and the need to find a good dry…


June 10, 2015

Road to Recovery

Kelly Gardner

If there’s one thing Jeff Snodgres can do, it’s defy the odds. During a routine physical exam at age 10, Jeff, a self-proclaimed “military brat,” was found to have protein in his urine. Because he lacked any other symptoms, doctors were unable to determine the exact cause. However, they suspected Alport Syndrome, a hereditary kidney…


UAMS Names Stephen Mette New Chief Clinical Officer

Kelly Gardner

LITTLE ROCK — Stephen Mette, M.D., has joined the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) as chief clinical officer. “I look forward to getting to know my new colleagues, students and the wonderful people of Arkansas as we work every day to improve the health and lives of the communities we serve,” said Mette….


June 5, 2015

Hand Telemedicine Program, UAMS Physician Save Batesville Man’s Hand

Kelly Gardner

A split-second connection between a table saw blade and a wedding ring almost took Tommy Watts’ hand. A high-speed, split-second video connection between a Batesville hospital and UAMS orthopaedic surgeon’s  iPad helped him keep it. When the teeth of the blade caught on the ring, it pulled Watts’ hand into its path, slicing into his…



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