Announcements


September 4, 2024

MVP for September — Erin Puryear

News Staff

Erin Puryear, MVP for September 2024

Meet Erin Puryear, the university’s MVP for September and a pharmacist in our Inpatient Pharmacy. In the course of her work, she puts into practice the UAMS values of integrity, respect, diversity and health equity, teamwork, creativity, excellence and safety.


August 12, 2024

MVP for August — Cassie Fagan

News Staff

Cassie Fagan

Meet Cassie Fagan, the MVP for August. Cassie serves as  an access coordinator at the UAMS Northeast Regional Campus in Jonesboro. In the course of her work, she puts into practice the UAMS values of integrity, respect, diversity and health equity, teamwork, creativity, excellence and safety.


August 9, 2024

‘Magical’ Project SEARCH Program Builds Graduates’ Skills, Confidence

Benjamin Waldrum

Makayla Hill and Patterson

Every morning at 7:30, Hunter Hatchett arrives at the Biomedical Research Building I on the UAMS Little Rock campus for his job as a lab technician. After pulling on a smock and gloves over his black scrubs, he sets about organizing and preparing supplies for the day. It’s a job he became familiar with as…


July 12, 2024

MVP for July — Clement Aladesofi

News Staff

Clement Aladesofi, MVP for July 2024

Meet Clement Aladesofi, the MVP for July. Clement serves UAMS as a patient care technician on H9 of the Medical Center. In the course of his work, he puts into practice the UAMS values of integrity, respect, diversity and health equity, teamwork, creativity, excellence and safety.


July 11, 2024

UAMS’ Yulian Menyaev, Ph.D., Completes Six of the World’s Toughest Marathons to Win Abbott World Marathon Majors Medal

Marty Trieschmann

UAMS’ Yulian Menyaev, Ph.D., Completes Six of the World’s Toughest Marathons to Win Abbott World Marathon Majors Medal

Yulian Menyaev, Ph.D., keeps a low profile as a research associate in the UAMS Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery, quietly helping researchers conduct clinical trials on potentially life-saving therapies.


June 13, 2024

MVP for June — Dawn Williams

News Staff

Dawn Williams, MVP for June 2024

Meet Dawn Williams, the university’s MVP for June. Dawn is assistant access director in UAMS Patient Access. In the course of her work, she puts into practice the UAMS values of integrity, respect, diversity and health equity, teamwork, creativity, excellence and safety.


June 7, 2024

Pharmacy ASHP-SSHP Chapter Honored with Award for Professionalism

Benjamin Waldrum

COP SSHP students

The American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) recently recognized the UAMS College of Pharmacy’s Student Society of Health-System Pharmacists (SSHP) chapter with an Outstanding Professional Development Award for the 2023-2024 academic year. The UAMS chapter was one of only 20 chapters nationwide to receive the honor. “I am so proud of our SSHP chapter and…


June 4, 2024

UAMS 12th Street Health & Wellness Center Receives Gold Star Rating

Linda Satter

Steven Webber, M.D., dean of the College of Medicine and UAMS executive vice chancellor, and Elizabeth Gath, M.D., listen to students present on a patient at the 12th Street Health & Wellness Center.

The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) 12th Street Health & Wellness Center, a student-run, interprofessional free clinic that serves its neighbors while educating students, has again earned a Gold Star rating from the National Association of Free and Charitable Clinics (NAFC). The rating is the highest awarded by the NAFC, whose mission is…


June 3, 2024

Physician Assistant Class of 2026 Dons White Coats

Ben Boulden

The 40 members of the Physician Assistant Studies Class of 2024 gather on stage in Smith Auditorium for group portrait.

The smiles of audience members were almost as bright as the new, white coats being put on by students in the Class of 2026 during the Physician Assistant White Coat Ceremony on May 24 at UAMS.


May 30, 2024

College of Medicine Class of 2024 Reminded to ‘Calm Down’ as they Move Forward

Linda Satter

The UAMS College of Medicine Class of 2024 recites the Hippocratic Oath with Dean Steven Webber, M.D.

The 168 members of the College of Medicine Class of 2024 donned their doctoral hoods and jointly recited the Hippocratic Oath after being showered with words of wisdom at their May 17 honors convocation. The following day, after receiving their degrees at a campus-wide commencement ceremony, they became the latest group of physicians from the…



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