Announcements


November 21, 2024

UAMS Medical Center Achieves Magnet® Recognition for Clinical Care and Nursing Excellence

News Staff

Employees celebrate the announcement of UAMS’ designation as a Magnet® hospital from the American Nurses Credentialing Center.

The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Medical Center was awarded the highest international recognition for excellence in nursing from the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), achieving designation as a Magnet® hospital.


November 13, 2024

Miss America Madison Marsh Visits UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute

Marty Trieschmann

Miss America Madison Marsh Visits UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute

Miss America Madison Marsh understands what cancer can do to a family. The Fort Smith, Arkansas, native lost her mother, Whitney Marsh, to pancreatic cancer when Madison was just 17 years old.


November 6, 2024

Natasha Jones

Ben Boulden

Natasha Jones, MVP for November 2024

Meet Natasha Jones, the MVP for November. Natasha serves as credit manager in UAMS Finance and Administration. 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.


November 4, 2024

UAMS Earns ‘Most Wired’ Recognition from CHIME for Use of Technology

Chris Carmody

A logo for the CHIME Digital Health Most Wired honor is shown over a photo of the UAMS Medical Center in Little Rock.

The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) recently garnered recognition as a 2024 Digital Health Most Wired organization from the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME).


October 18, 2024

College of Nursing Holds White Coat Ceremony to Celebrate Students’ Next Step

Chris Carmody

A student dons her white coat during the College of Nursing ceremony.

The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) College of Nursing held a white coat ceremony to welcome more than 100 nursing students to the clinical phase of their education. The Oct. 4 ceremony, held at the First Pentecostal Church of North Little Rock, honored students in the college’s undergraduate and graduate programs. Patricia Cowan,…


October 15, 2024

‘Drugified’ Depictions Everywhere in America, Says Author Sam Quinones

Tim Taylor

Author Sam Quinones, sitting with Department of Psychiatry Chair Laura Dunn, M.D.,, said an estimated 100,000 Americans will overdose on fentanyl this year. “That is a staggering amount of people.”

The American public is “assaulted” with addictive images every day, according to award-winning author Sam Quinones, so it should come as no surprise that so many people are drawn to the abundance of illicit drugs available throughout the country.


October 7, 2024

Winthrop Rockefeller Distinguished Lecture Focuses on Historic Disparities in Health Care

Ben Boulden

Harriet Washington stands in front of the stage in Smith Auditorium while discussing the history in the U.S, of racial health disparities.

The history of U.S. health care has long ignored the impact of and on African Americans, and Harriet Washington wants to change that. On Sept. 25 at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), she presented “Medical Apartheid … and Beyond” as part of the Winthrop P. Rockefeller Distinguished Lecture series. Washington, an award-winning…


October 4, 2024

College of Public Health Students Promote the Value of Coping with Stress

Kev' Moye

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Students in the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Fay W. Boozman College of Public Health converted a cabinet into a relief center for classmates burdened by stress. Data has revealed that stress can lead to an individual developing mental and physical ailments. Tiffany Haynes, Ph.D., associate professor in the college’s Department of Health…


Jenna Cantrell

News Staff

Jenna Cantrell, MVP for October 2024

Meet Jenna Cantrell, the MVP for October. Jenna serves UAMS as interim clinical services manager at the UAMS Northwest Regional Campus.


October 2, 2024

UAMS College of Pharmacy Awards Scholarships to Record 181 Students

Benjamin Waldrum

2024 Robert N. and Robert H. Manley Endowed Scholarship

The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences’ (UAMS) College of Pharmacy awarded nearly 200 scholarships to a school-record 181 students at a Sept. 20 ceremony. The college also announced the creation of three new scholarships. “This year is especially significant, as we celebrate recognizing over 180 students, which is a record for the College of…



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