Announcements
April 3, 2020
UAMS Provides COVID-19 Screening to Helena, Delta Residents
As the van carrying UAMS health care professionals arrived in Helena early April 2, residents of Helena and the surrounding Delta region were already lining up in their vehicles to receive the drive-through COVID-19 evaluation UAMS was about to provide. By 9:45 a.m., the team from the main campus in Little Rock and from UAMS…
Johnathan Goree, M.D., Named Arkansas Physician of the Year by Arkansas Business
Johnathan H. Goree, M.D., an anesthesiologist who specializes in chronic pain and director of the Chronic Pain Division at UAMS was named Arkansas Physician of the Year on April 2 at the Arkansas Business Healthcare Heroes celebration. The annual awards event was held virtually on YouTube because of the COVID-19 pandemic. In presenting the awards,…
March 31, 2020
Caregiver Support Group Held on Thursdays — Now on Zoom
All types of caregivers are invited to attend a Caregiver Support Group from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. every Thursday in the F7 Conference Room, Room F7009.
March 24, 2020
Kindness Eases COVID-19 Disruption of Family Vacation
Over the past year, UAMS has cultivated a culture of kindness and during these hard times of uncertainty, acts of kindness – no matter how small – help keep us sane. During this time, we need to depend on each other, band together, and continue to share acts of kindness to one another. We can all use a little positive news as we struggle to make sense of COVID-19.
March 20, 2020
Match Day Goes Virtual: COVID-19 Changes, but Can’t Stop Spirit Behind COM Celebration
Match Day is always bittersweet, but the Class of 2020 tried to emphasize the sweet over the bitter at this year’s celebration despite the swirling context of a global pandemic and its unprecedented disruptions to daily life. There were still tears — but they were tears of joy, accomplishment and hard work paid off. And…
March 18, 2020
Aerospace Medicine Expert: Reach for the Stars by Finding, Believing your Dream
It’s possible to do things that have never been done before — like sky dive from near space — if you build on the past, learn from your mistakes, and don’t put limits on your dreams, said Jonathan B. Clark, M.D., the distinguished lecturer at Student Research Day. “Your task is to turn science fiction…
March 13, 2020
Orthopaedics Scholarship Encourages Student Diversity
The UAMS College of Medicine has established a scholarship to recruit underrepresented minority students to its orthopaedics program, one of only a handful of medical schools in the country to do so. The scholarship provides financial support to encourage fourth-year minority students outside of UAMS to apply for a four-week visiting student rotation in orthopaedic…
March 12, 2020
UAMS Pharmacy Students Help Refugees Navigate Pharmacies
As part of resettlement efforts for newly arrived refugees, pharmacy students from the UAMS Northwest Regional Campus recently gave tours of two local pharmacies to refugees in Washington County. Students also provided gift bags of thermometers, toiletries and other basic essentials.
March 11, 2020
UAMS Medical Center Recognized as Center of Excellence for Childbirth Complication Placenta Accreta Spectrum
The Maternal Safety Foundation has named the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Medical Center an Accreta Center of Excellence, recognizing its superior care for a life-threatening childbirth complication called placenta accreta spectrum disorder. UAMS Medical Center is the first hospital in the nation to receive the designation, which indicates that UAMS has both…
March 6, 2020
March MVPs — Greg Roberts and Tara Bruce
Congratulations to Greg Roberts and Tara Bruce, our March MVPs of the Month!
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