Inside News


April 2, 2019

New HIPAA Software Ensures Patient Privacy

Kate Franks

Beginning this month, UAMS will begin using Protenus, a powerful new tool in the detection of unauthorized viewing of protected health information.


March 29, 2019

12th Street Center’s March Man-ness Event Scores Victory for Health

Ben Boulden

A March Man-ness Health Event volunteer talks with one of the attendees at one of the event's information tables.

March Man-ness met basketball March Madness on a recent Saturday morning, and Charles Smith was able to enjoy peace of mind and entertainment from both.


March 28, 2019

UAMS Honors 36 for National Women’s History Month

Spencer Watson

The 2019 UAMS Phenomenal Women on stage with their awards following the event.

UAMS honored 36 phenomenal women from throughout the campus community at its annual National Women’s History Month celebration “Women of the World: Educating, Innovating, Serving.”


March 26, 2019

UAMS Day at the Capitol Highlights Programs, Offers Health Screenings

Susan Van Dusen

Arkansas Sen. Missy Irvin of Mountain View (left) visits with UAMS Chancellor Cam Patterson, M.D., MBA; Cancer Institute Interim Director Laura Hutchins, M.D.; and Dorothy Graves, Ph.D., Cancer Institute associate director of administration, during UAMS Day at the Capitol.

UAMS Day at the Capitol on March 26 gave lawmakers a firsthand look at how the state’s only health sciences university impacts citizens across Arkansas.


March 25, 2019

Central Building Stairwell Gets a Makeover

Yavonda Chase

Marissa Miller, a student in the Physician Assistant Studies program, stands beside her mural.

One of the stairwells on campus has gotten an inspiring facelift.The Get Healthy UAMS committee chose three artists to paint murals in the Central Building’s Stairwell Five, located behind the C elevators. The murals are located between the ground floor and the first floor.


March 21, 2019

Cooking for a Healthier State

David Wise

UAMS Northwest Regional Campus students and faculty from multiple departments (medicine, pharmacy and physical therapy) attend a culinary medicine workshop at Brightwater: A Center for the Study of Food in Bentonville.

“You are what you eat.”“An apple a day keeps the doctor away.”Most of us have heard phrases like these over the years. And many of us have taken them to heart because they sound like common sense. But we probably never thought much about the science that actually supports them.


March 18, 2019

Virtual Reality Reveals Challenges of Aging

Ben Boulden

Using virtual reality technology, Nathan King experiences a simulation of vision and hearing loss.

Nathan King was experiencing hearing loss and the blurred vision that comes with macular degeneration even though his eyes and ears were just fine. Through a computer simulation, King, an education coordinator in the new UAMS Institute for Digital Health & Innovation, was learning what the challenges are for older adults who live with these…


March 15, 2019

Match Day Tests Nerves, Offers Huge Payoffs to Graduating Medicine Seniors

ChaseYavondaC

Student smiling at podium

Dreams really can come true — and for the 160-plus College of Medicine seniors who attended the annual Match Day event on Friday, those fulfilled wishes came in the form of envelopes that revealed where they will spend the next three to seven years as they complete their residency training. “It feels surreal,” said Daniel…


March 14, 2019

Nobel Laureate Says Teamwork, Relationships, Social Involvement Vital for Scientists

ChaseYavondaC

Scientist at podium addressing large crowd

Science is about relationships, Nobel laureate Harold Varmus, M.D., told the standing-room-only crowd at Student Research Day. The work is collegial, the results are meant to be shared, and its discoveries are inseparably linked to a wider social and political context.


March 8, 2019

Undergraduates Visit UAMS on Diversity Day

Spencer Watson

Visiting undergraduates heard from current UAMS students during a lunch discussion panel.

Undergraduate students from across the state got a personal introduction to UAMS and the variety of career options available in health care recently through Diversity Day. More than 145 students and 15 advisors from 20 Arkansas universities and a few surrounding states attended the annual conference-style event, hosted by the UAMS Center for Diversity Affairs….



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