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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 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 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…


September 19, 2024

UAMS Historical Research Center Opens Digital Collection Celebrating Life, Career of Joycelyn Elders, M.D.

Andrew Vogler

Elders

The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Historical Research Center announced the opening of “Making a Difference: The M. Joycelyn Elders, M.D. Collection,” a digital collection documenting the career of Joycelyn Elders, M.D.


August 9, 2024

‘Magical’ Project SEARCH Program Builds Graduates’ Skills, Confidence

Benjamin Waldrum

Makayla Hill and Patterson

Every morning at 7:30, Hunter Hatchett arrives at the Biomedical Research Building I on the UAMS Little Rock campus for his job as a lab technician. After pulling on a smock and gloves over his black scrubs, he sets about organizing and preparing supplies for the day. It’s a job he became familiar with as…


July 11, 2024

UAMS’ Yulian Menyaev, Ph.D., Completes Six of the World’s Toughest Marathons to Win Abbott World Marathon Majors Medal

Marty Trieschmann

UAMS’ Yulian Menyaev, Ph.D., Completes Six of the World’s Toughest Marathons to Win Abbott World Marathon Majors Medal

Yulian Menyaev, Ph.D., keeps a low profile as a research associate in the UAMS Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery, quietly helping researchers conduct clinical trials on potentially life-saving therapies.


April 12, 2024

UAMS Celebrates Once in a Generation Event — Total Solar Eclipse

Ben Boulden

The total solar eclipse at 1:51 p.m., April 8, left; UAMS employees, center, get ready to view the eclipse at the Bruce Fountain in front of the Medical Center; right, the sun in partial eclipse. (eclipse photos courtesy of John Sykes; center photo by Keith Whitworth)

As the moon completely covered the disk of the sun for three minutes on April 8, hundreds of members of Team UAMS together witnessed the rare event — a total solar eclipse. Audible gasps and exclamations of awe were heard across the field between the Shorey Building and Hooper Drive and around the Bruce Fountain…


March 29, 2024

UAMS Oral Health Clinic on Display at Open House

Nathan Tidwell

Oral Health Clinic staff

The Delta Dental of Arkansas Foundation Oral Health Clinic at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) recently welcomed visitors at an open house. The Oral Health Clinic staff handed out oral hygiene supplies and spoke with the many guests who came through. “The UAMS Oral Health Clinic is a tremendous asset not only…



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