Announcements
March 4, 2020
Guest Lecture Addresses Bias toward Health Care Workers
![Leon McDougle, M.D., M.P.H., chief diversity officer and professor at the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, presents at UAMS on Feb. 26.](https://news.uams.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Dr.-Leon-McDougle-lecture-02262020-DSC_3669-150x150.jpg)
What should doctors, nurses or other health care providers do when a patient makes a request that seems discriminatory? Leon McDougle, M.D., M.P.H., chief diversity officer and professor at the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, was a guest of the UAMS Division for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion to discuss precisely that situation in a…
February 20, 2020
Kindness Week Spreads Thanks to Departmental Champions
![Kindness Walls scattered around campus urged employees to take a positive note and leave one in its place.](https://news.uams.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Kindness2020-02202020-DSC_2967-150x150.jpg)
There is a kindness in the air at UAMS this week as the campus celebrates National Random Acts of Kindness Week with giveaways and other special recognitions.
Chancellor’s State of University Reveals UAMS on Right Track with Finances, Strategic Plan
![Chancellor Cam Patterson, M.D., MBA, tells employees UAMS has turned a financial corner during his State of the University address Feb. 13.](https://news.uams.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/State-of-UAMS-02132020-850_3482-150x150.jpg)
Chancellor Cam Patterson, M.D., MBA, shared a rosy financial picture and plenty of other good news during his State of the University address Feb. 13.
February 19, 2020
UAMS Breast Cancer Survivors Honored at Little Rock Trojans Pink Game
![breast cancer survivors](https://news.uams.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/survivors-150x150.jpg)
Kristina Payne wants to show the world there is life after breast cancer. “It’s scary, but there is a light at the end of the tunnel,” said Payne, a three-year survivor and access manager at UAMS.
February 18, 2020
UAMS Employees Create Sculpture for Cancer Institute Drive
![Eric Hale, Penny Talbert and Kenneth Bailey created this tree sculpture from wrought iron saved from the homes along Pine and Cedar.](https://news.uams.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/IMG_2424-150x150.jpg)
For 10 years, Penny Talbert has been trying to get something to grow in a certain spot along the circle drive at the Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute.
“I finally realized that the area was too shaded and too windy for anything to thrive in that spot,” the landscape manager said. “What we needed was a sculpture.”
Free Smart Women, Smart Money Seminar on Feb. 28
The second annual Smart Women, Smart Money Seminar will be held from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 28, at the Embassy Suites Hotel in Little Rock.
February 13, 2020
First UAMS TEDx Talks Generate Excitement, Appreciation
![The 10 TEDxUAMS presenters and some of team that put on the event celebrate on stage at the end of the day.](https://news.uams.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/TEDx-UAMS-2020-02072020-DSC_2816-150x150.jpg)
TED talks focus on “ideas worth spreading.”
That philosophy was on display Feb. 7 as UAMS held its first ever TEDx talks in its Jackson T. Stephens Spine & Neurosciences Institute.
February 10, 2020
February MVP — Penny Talbert
![Penny Talbert](https://news.uams.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Penny-crop-150x150.jpg)
Congratulations to Penny Talbert, our February MVP of the Month!
Poison and Drug Information Center at UAMS Inspires Career Choices
![Josh Harper, Pharm.D., a certified specialist in poison information, takes a call while working in the Arkansas Poison and Drug Information Center.](https://news.uams.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/PoisonDrugInformationCenter-featured-150x150.jpg)
Spending a month last May in the Arkansas Poison and Drug Information Center helped Masha Yemets, a UAMS College of Pharmacy student, define the career path she wants to follow. Yemets, who graduates in May, spent that month answering calls in the center from a broad cross-section of the public. “I had an inkling I…
February 5, 2020
Ronald McDonald Family Room Opens at UAMS
![A grand opening celebration was held Jan. 31 for the new Ronald McDonald Family Room on the fifth floor of the Medical Center.](https://news.uams.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Ronald-McDonald-room-opening-01312020-DSC_1561-150x150.jpg)
Visitors to the fifth floor of the UAMS Medical Center hospital can’t miss the bright yellow house with a red door and a heart coming out of the chimney. The entrance is just a hint of what lies inside – a warm, inviting, space that looks more like a hotel than a hospital.
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