Announcements
April 29, 2022
Public Health Students Collect Thousands of Diapers, Wipes for UAMS Head Start
Students from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences’ (UAMS) Fay W. Boozman College of Public Health organized a diaper drive after learning there were mothers in need of diapers and wipes for their babies. Taylor Washington, Todd Hamilton and Joanna Bartley are all members of the Master of Health Administration Student Association. The association…
College’s Faculty Never Stop Learning, Study for Advanced Degrees
Some faculty members in the UAMS College of Health Professions have headed back to school — a role that gives them greater insight into their own students. About 20 professors and instructors out of 81 in the college are pursuing advanced degrees in postgraduate programs or have recently completed them.
April 28, 2022
UAMS’ Kevin Sexton, M.D., Named BioVentures President
LITTLE ROCK — Kevin Sexton, M.D., a surgeon and entrepreneur, has been named president of BioVentures LLC, the technology licensing office and business incubator based at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS). Sexton, an associate professor in the College of Medicine Department of Surgery, became interim director in 2021 following the death of…
April 22, 2022
UAMS’ First ECMO Patient Returns to Thank the Team that Saved Her
Sherri Holder says people often refer to her as a miracle. But she thinks the UAMS nurses, doctors and respiratory therapists on H4 who cared for her last year are the real miracles.
April 21, 2022
College of Pharmacy Students Receive Scholarships at Awards Ceremony
Students in the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences’ College of Pharmacy collectively received more than 80 scholarships at the college’s Student Awards Ceremony, held April 6. “All students honored here today have worked exceptionally hard to meet the criteria established to earn these awards and scholarships,” said Brendan Frett, Ph.D., assistant professor and chair…
April 13, 2022
Virtual Art Workshop Honors Women’s History Month
The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Division for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion partnered with Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and My T by Design to honor Women’s History Month with a virtual art workshop, titled “UAMS Women: Providing Healing, Promoting Hope.”
April 1, 2022
April MVP — Tracey Carey
The MVP for April is Tracey Carey. Tracey is a Registered Nurse in the Women’s Inpatient Unit of the UAMS Psychiatric Research Institute. In the course of her work, she puts into practice the UAMS values of being polite, friendly, respectful, thoughtful, optimistic and compassionate. Here is what her nominator wrote: “Tracey moved to the…
March 28, 2022
College of Pharmacy Class of 2023 Receives Pins, Transitions to Patient Care
The UAMS College of Pharmacy held its annual Academy of Student Pharmacists Professional Pinning Ceremony on March 4, celebrating third-year students as they transition from in-class instruction to direct patient care for their final year of pharmacy school. After two years of virtual festivities due to the COVID-19 pandemic, students masked up and gathered in…
March 22, 2022
Dental Hygiene Students Treat Afghan Refugee Families
Since late November, UAMS dental hygiene students have given dozens of Afghan refugees something many of them have never before received – dental care.
March 21, 2022
College of Medicine Match Day Ceremony Applauds 158 Seniors Fanning out Across the Country to Improve the World
The UAMS College of Medicine’s Match Day ceremony Friday marked a return to normalcy for seniors who have spent the last two years of medical school largely avoiding crowds, and each other, to comply with pandemic-driven social distancing requirements. In a switch back to the live ceremonies of earlier years, albeit with masks to comply…
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