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June 17, 2019

Vice Chancellor Leads Workshop on Defense Department Grant Process

Ben Boulden

More than 50 people attended the workshop on Department of Defense research funding.

UAMS research faculty learned how to get a leg up on applying for funding from the U.S. Department of Defense during a recent workshop hosted by Shuk-Mei Ho, Ph.D., the new UAMS vice chancellor for research. Open to all research faculty, the U.S. Department of Defense grant writing crash course June 7 was scheduled in…


June 14, 2019

Two Nursing Graduates Get Unconventional Pinnings

Spencer Watson

Heather Bound receiving her pin as a graduate of the UAMS College of Nursing.

While every new graduate is happy – and relieved – to get their diploma, many new nurses will tell you it is the unique pin traditionally given out just before graduation by colleges of nursing that they consider to be their true, symbolic entry into the profession. So it was with some dismay that two…


June 11, 2019

Physician Assistant Class of 2021 Accepts their White Coats

Yavonda Chase

Students from the Physician Assistant Studies Class of 2021 recite the Physician Assistant Professional Oath during a May 24 white coat ceremony.

The Physician Assistant Studies program presented 40 students from the Class of 2021 with their white coats May 24 in a ceremony in the Fred W. Smith Auditorium in the Jackson T. Stephens Spine & Neurosciences Institute.


June 7, 2019

Robust Family Medicine Research, Strong Residency Highlighted at Poster Day

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Doctors near scientific poster

Great things are happening in the UAMS College of Medicine’s Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, with a recent research poster day as just the latest sign of the department’s “good health.” The poster session featured 35 posters, including 20 projects by residents. Topics included residency administration and education, ethics, case reports, improvements in patient…


June 5, 2019

Diversity Helps Keep Educational Pipeline Flowing

Spencer Watson

Billy Thomas, M.D., M.P.H., inaugural vice chancellor for diversity and inclusion, welcomes eighth grade students to the Roadmap to Success conference.

The UAMS Center for Diversity Affairs has spent the spring working to fill the educational pipeline and inspire the next generation of health care workers: today’s junior high and high school students. “I think we’ve really been successful because we’ve had maybe 200 to 250 encounters with students, and that doesn’t include what we’ve got…


June 4, 2019

UAMS Chancellor Cam Patterson, M.D., MBA, Invested in Harry P. Ward Chancellor’s Distinguished Chair

Benjamin Waldrum

Patterson sits in his chair at the investiture ceremony. Behind him are (from left to right): Donald Bobbitt, Ph.D., Michael E. Mendelsohn, M.D., Steve Carpenter, M.D., John Goodson, and Gov. Asa Hutchinson.

Cam Patterson, M.D., MBA, chancellor of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), was invested June 3 as the third recipient of the Harry P. Ward Chancellor’s Distinguished Chair.


June 3, 2019

Employees Honored at Awards of Excellence Ceremony

Kate Franks

The Sterile Processing Department received the Team Impact Award during the Awards of Excellence Ceremony on May 22. The department includes about 120 employees who ensure instruments needed for surgeries and procedures are sterile, safe and in working order.

The Medical Center’s Sterile Processing leadership team, Michael Arnold and Chief Nursing Officer Mary Helen Forrest were honored May 22 at the Awards of Excellence Ceremony, an event sponsored by the UAMS Medical Center Auxiliary.


May 31, 2019

Pregnant Women Facing Housing Insecurity Receive Prenatal Education

Ashley McNatt

Motherhood Together

Certificates were awarded to six pregnant women facing housing insecurity who completed a healthy pregnancy and baby prenatal program May 21 provided by UAMS. The program, “Motherhood together: A Journey in Love,” was put on by faculty and students from the UAMS colleges of Public Health and Nursing. “We knew there was a need for…


UAMS, Governor Celebrate Clinical Trials Day

David Robinson

Betty Fortner, a cancer survivor and clinical trial participant, briefly told her story to Gov. Asa Hutchinson and UAMS and ACRI research leaders during a photo opportunity for Clinical Trials Day.

A celebration of Clinical Trials Day was a chance for Gov. Asa Hutchinson to shake hands with UAMS researchers and hear the story of Betty Fortner, a cancer survivor and clinical research advocate.


May 30, 2019

UAMS Celebrates 10 Project SEARCH Graduates

Yavonda Chase

Ten interns graduated from the UAMS Project SEARCH program on May 21.

Members of Team UAMS gathered May 21 to celebrate 10 interns as they graduated from the 2019 UAMS Project SEARCH program, a job-training program that helps young adults with disabilities develop independent living and working skills.



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