March 20, 2023

UAMS Holds Second Girlology Puberty Event

Yavonda Chase

UAMS Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology physicians Laura Hollenbach, M.D., Nirvana Manning, M.D., and Kathryn Stambough, M.D., taught girls ages 8-14 at the second Girlology puberty event.

The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) welcomed more than 230 preteen and teen girls and their mothers, fathers or caregivers to the second Girlology puberty event.


March 1, 2023

UAMS To Host Girlology Puberty Event March 12

Yavonda Chase

Four Young Girls Hanging Out Together In Park

LITTLE ROCK — The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) is bringing back its popular Girlology puberty session March 12 to help girls face puberty with greater confidence.


February 1, 2023

UAMS Brain Injury Program to Offer Free Virtual Workshop Feb. 16

Yavonda Chase

The UAMS Institute for Digital Health and Innovation’s Brain Injury Program will host a virtual workshop, “Strategies for Memory and Mood,” Feb. 16 to connect anyone affected by a traumatic brain injury (TBI) to helpful resources and support.

LITTLE ROCK — The UAMS Institute for Digital Health and Innovation’s Brain Injury Program will host a virtual workshop, “Strategies for Memory and Mood,” Feb. 16 to connect anyone affected by a traumatic brain injury (TBI) to helpful resources and support.


January 17, 2023

Dr. Michelle Krause to Lead UAMS Health System & Hospital; Dr. Ahmed Abuabdou Named Chief Clinical Officer

Yavonda Chase

Michelle W. Krause, M.D., MPH, and Ahmed Abuabdou, MD, MBA

LITTLE ROCK — The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) has named Michelle W. Krause, M.D., MPH, senior vice chancellor for UAMS Health and chief executive officer for UAMS Medical Center, and Ahmed Abuabdou, MD, MBA, chief clinical officer for UAMS Medical Center. Both have been serving in these roles on an interim basis since September 2022.


January 3, 2023

UAMS Mourns Loss of Susan Smyth, M.D., Ph.D.

Yavonda Chase

Susan Smyth, M.D., Ph.D., died Dec. 31, 2022, after a battle with cancer.

LITTLE ROCK — The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) is sad to announce that Susan Smyth, M.D., Ph.D. executive vice chancellor and dean of the College of Medicine, died Dec. 31, 2022, after a battle with cancer.


November 8, 2022

UAMS Voted Best Company to Work For by Newspaper’s Readers

Yavonda Chase

Readers of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette voted UAMS the Best Company to Work For among companies with 250 employees or more.

The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) is the Best Company to Work For among organizations of 250 employees or more, according to the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette’s 2022 Best of the Best reader survey.


November 1, 2022

UAMS to Offer Free Traumatic Brain Injury Workshop Nov. 10

Yavonda Chase

UAMS will host a virtual “Traumatic Brain Injury Resource Workshop” from noon to 2 p.m. on Nov. 10.

LITTLE ROCK — The UAMS Institute for Digital Health and Innovation’s TBI Team will host a virtual “Traumatic Brain Injury Resource Workshop” on Nov. 10 to connect anyone affected by a TBI to helpful resources and support.


September 8, 2022

Northwest Arkansas Crisis Stabilization Re-Opens Under UAMS Leadership

Yavonda Chase

Kristen McAllister, (second from right) director of the Northwest Arkansas Crisis Stabilization Unit, gives State Reps. Jim Dotson, Robin Lundstrum and Nicole Clowney a tour of the unit's garden area.

Until the Northwest Arkansas Crisis Stabilization Unit opened last month in Fayetteville, too often the choices for those going through a mental-health crisis were limited: jail or the hospital.


September 6, 2022

UAMS Sponsors ‘That Good Night: On Dignity, Suffering & the Role of Medicine in Life’s Eleventh Hour’ on Sept. 14

Yavonda Chase

LITTLE ROCK — The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Division of Palliative Medicine is sponsoring “That Good Night: On Dignity, Suffering & the Role of Medicine in Life’s Eleventh Hour,” with Sunita Puri, M.D.


August 26, 2022

Laser Treatment Gives UAMS Patient Relief from Kidney Stones

Yavonda Chase

Jeff Hankins battled kidney stones for years. He underwent a procedure in which a laser was used to shatter the stones into tiny pieces.

For Jeff Hankins, kidney stones were an unfortunate part of life. But in the past couple of years, passing the stones without medical help became a lot harder as the stones got larger.



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