Announcements


April 22, 2022

UAMS’ First ECMO Patient Returns to Thank the Team that Saved Her

Yavonda Chase

Sherri Holder (center) with her UAMS care team on H4. Holder was UAMS' first ECMO patient.

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

Benjamin Waldrum

McKenzie Koch

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

Kalee Sexton

Women were encouraged to take time for themselves at the virtual art event “UAMS Women: Providing Healing, Promoting Hope.”

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

Ben Boulden

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

Benjamin Waldrum

COP third year students

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

Ben Boulden

An Afghan refugee woman receives a dental assessment at the UAMS Dental Hygiene Clinic.

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

Linda Satter

Heather Morgan, who matched to a family medicine residency at Harrison Medical Center in Bremerton, Washington, and also won a jar of cash by being the last senior called to the stage, collect hugs after the ceremony. All the seniors contributed a dollar to the jar as they walked across the stage.

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…


National Guard Recognizes UAMS Supervisor as ‘Patriotic Employer’

Ben Boulden

Marvin Powell, front and center, holds his Patriotic Employer Award from the Department of Defense. Also, front, left to right, Col. Dean Martin, Staff Sgt. Chris Coffman, Powell, Ms. Powell and Chancellor Cam Patterson.

The Arkansas Air National Guard on March 17 recognized UAMS supervisor Marvin Powell as a Patriotic Employer — an award that was more than a year in the making.


March 17, 2022

Dietetics, Nutrition Programs Mark Anniversaries with Online Celebration, Guest Lecture

Ben Boulden

UAMS Dietetics through the Decades: the Dietetics Internship program in the College of Health Professions' Department of Dietetics and Nutrition celebrated the 50th anniversary of its establishment.

Alumni, faculty and students celebrated March 10 the dual birthdays of programs in the UAMS College of Health Professions’ Department of Dietetics and Nutrition. College and university leaders spoke on Zoom about the history and achievements of the programs leading up to the anniversaries.


March 16, 2022

UAMS Simulation Center Helps Train Air Force Medics

Ben Boulden

Members of the 189th Medical Group train in trauma care with manikin in the UAMS Simulation Center.

U.S. National Guard personnel provided support to UAMS during nearly every phase of the COVID-19 pandemic, and on March 11 the university Simulation Education Center reciprocated.



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