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July 26, 2018

UAMS Salutes Veterans as it Dedicates New Flag Poles

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UAMS dedicated three new flag poles at a July 23 ceremony.

UAMS dedicated its three new flag poles and raised the U.S., Arkansas and UAMS flags during a July 23 ceremony.


July 23, 2018

UAMS Welcomes 10 Project SEARCH® Interns

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Chancellor Cam Patterson (center) and Billy Thomas, M.D., (right) vice chancellor for diversity, pose for a photo with the new UAMS Project SEARCH interns.

UAMS welcomed its latest class of Project SEARCH® interns to campus during a July 9 reception and orientation.


July 18, 2018

New Ad Campaign Features Those Born at UAMS

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"I was born at UAMS."

In the latest commercials for UAMS, the focus is on obstetrics and the many babies born at the state’s only academic medical center.


July 13, 2018

UAMS Medical Center Certified as First and Only Comprehensive Stroke Center in Arkansas

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Seen here outside the UAMS Department of Neurosurgery, the UAMS Medical Center stroke team along with other UAMS physicians and staff recently achieved Comprehensive Stroke Center desgination for the medical center.

July 13, 2018 | UAMS Medical Center has become the first and only health care provider in Arkansas to be certified as a Comprehensive Stroke Center by The Joint Commission.


July 11, 2018

Hagemeier to Hold Training Rides for Myeloma’s Ride for Research

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Mark Hagemeier is volunteering to help other UAMS employees interested in participating in the 2018 UAMS Myeloma Institute’s Ride for Research, held in conjunction with the Big Dam Bridge 100 on Sept. 29.


July 6, 2018

First-Year Residents from UAMS Regional Campuses Gather

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Mark Jansen, M.D., standing center, speaks to a group of first-year residents.

July 6, 2018 | While health care in recent years has pursued the triple aim of patient satisfaction and positive health outcomes while reducing the costs, Mark Jansen, M.D., told first-year resident physicians June 21 there should be a fourth target — provider satisfaction. “If we don’t have healthy, happy providers, you are not going…


July 5, 2018

UAMS Gets Nurse Anesthesia Specialty Program Approval

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UAMS College of Nursing Nurse Anesthesia

July 5, 2018 | The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) has received approval from the Arkansas Department of Higher Education for a Nurse Anesthesia specialty in the College of Nursing’s Doctor of Nursing Practice (D.N.P.) program. The UAMS Council of Deans and the University of Arkansas Board of Trustees previously approved the program. The…


July 3, 2018

UAMS Telemedicine Program in Magazine School District Reduces Obesity

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Students in the Magazine School District play during HealthyNow field Day.

July 3, 2018 | More than half of obese fifth through eighth graders in the Magazine School District reduced their obesity in the last year after participating in a program by the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Center for Distance Health. The program is part of the School Telemedicine in Arkansas (STAR) program…


July 2, 2018

Pharmacy Students Create Drug-Counseling Videos for YouTube

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College of Pharmacy students Zach Smith (center) and Matt Garner (right) played major roles in the creation of dozens of YouTube videos containing pharmacist-level drug counseling for patients. Seth Heldenbrand, Pharm.D., (left) the college’s associate dean of experiential education, conceived and oversaw the project.

July 2, 2018 | It all started with a visit to a local pharmacy.

Seth Heldenbrand, Pharm.D., the College of Pharmacy’s associate dean of experiential education and an associate professor, was picking up a new prescription and noticed that with a simple click of a box he had opted out of drug counseling by the pharmacist.


June 19, 2018

Laura Hutchins, M.D., Appointed Interim Director of UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute

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Laura Hutchins, M.D., has been named interim director of the Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences.

June 19, 2018 — Laura Hutchins, M.D., a hematologist oncologist at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) who has devoted her medical practice and research to fight breast cancer, melanoma and brain cancer, has been appointed interim director for the UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute effective immediately.



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