Inside News


September 16, 2021

Brain Imaging Research Center Installs New MRI Scanner

Tim Taylor

Using a crane, workers Sept. 13 install a new MRI scanner in the UAMS Psychiatric Research Institute.

To maintain its cutting-edge research efforts, the Brain Imaging Research Center replaced its current Philips 3T Achieva magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanner Monday, Sept. 13 with a new Siemens 3T Prisma MRI scanner, capable of imaging brain function and structure with improved spatial and temporal resolution.


September 13, 2021

Army Medical Team at UAMS to Help Care for COVID-19 Patients

Ben Boulden

Members of an Army medical team get fit-tested for personal protective equipment. The Army arrived on campus Sept. 10 to help provide COVID-19 patient care in the UAMS Medical Center.

Each speaker who spoke Sept. 9 to the Army personnel in the Lobby Gallery at UAMS chose different words to deliver the same message: We need you, and we are so very glad you’re here. Including nurses, respiratory therapists and physicians, the 20-person Army medical team arrived Thursday on the main campus for orientation.


September 9, 2021

MVP for September — Kacie Davis

Ben Boulden

Kacie Davis

The MVP for September is Kacie Davis, who in the course of his job demonstrates UAMS values in action. Kacie is a case coordinator in the UAMS Psychiatric Research Institute’s Crisis Stabilization Unit.


September 8, 2021

Audiology, Speech Pathology Students Don White Coats

Ben Boulden

Students gather for a photo after receiving their white coats. They are members of the in the Master of Science (M.S.) in Communication Sciences in Disorders Class of 2023

One of the many things the white coat represents for students pursuing degrees in the health care field is a fresh start. For the first-year students in the UAMS Department of Audiology and Speech Pathology, the department’s white coat ceremony on Aug. 20 marked the formal beginning of the next phase of their academic lives.


August 23, 2021

Chancellor’s Town Hall COVID-19 Panel Answers Questions about Third Shots, Immunity

Ben Boulden

Aug. 19 Town Hall

As soon as Sept. 20, UAMS may begin offering third vaccination shots to further protect its vaccinated students, employees, and members of the community against COVID-19.


August 13, 2021

Team UAMS Wears Blue to Thank Health Care Workers during Pandemic

Ben Boulden

Wear Blue

Blue met blue at UAMS and said ‘thank you’ starting at 6 a.m. Aug. 13. More than 50 UAMS volunteers in various articles of blue clothing gathered at three separate campus building entrances to say ‘thank you’ to co-workers, most of whom work in clinical areas and many of them in similarly colored apparel.


August 4, 2021

Expert Panel Answers COVID-19 Questions at Chancellor’s Town Hall

Ben Boulden

Before the town hall, Robert Hopkins Jr., second from right, talks with James Graham (standing), Michelle Krause and Steppe Mette, right. All four physicians made up a panel of experts who answered questions at the meeting.

A Town Hall panel gathered July 28 to answer questions from the online audience about COVID-19 featured familiar faces.


August 3, 2021

UAMS Celebrates MVP Awardees at Second Annual Luncheon

Ben Boulden

Cam Patterson and 2021 MVPs

Chancellor Cam Patterson, M.D., MBA, at a July 28 luncheon thanked and praised UAMS employees who in the last 12 months won an MVP award and whose contributions in earlier years might have gone largely unsung.


July 29, 2021

Forbes Magazine Ranks UAMS in Top 30% of Best Employers for Women

Linda Satter

Forbes Best Employers logo

Forbes magazine has named the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences to its list of Best Employers for Women 2021. UAMS was ranked 86th on a list of the top 300 companies in the United States, putting it in the top 30%. UAMS was the only company in Arkansas to make the list. The 300…


July 22, 2021

UAMS Expands Koru Mindfulness Program to Public

Linda Haymes

“Koru was developed as an introduction to mindfulness for busy people who feel they ‘don’t have time to meditate,’” said Puru Thapa, M.D., director of the UAMS Mindfulness Program, professor of psychiatry and the director of Student, Resident and Faculty Wellness at UAMS.

LITTLE ROCK — The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Mindfulness Program is offering the Koru Mindfulness Program online for the public.  The first course will start Aug. 3. The four-week class meets weekly at 7 p.m. on Tuesdays from Aug. 3-Aug. 24. Koru Mindfulness is an introduction to mindfulness meditation and stress-management skills….



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