Announcements


April 17, 2020

UAMS Provides COVID-19 Mobile Triage Evaluation to Forrest City, Delta

Ben Boulden

UAMS Chancellor Cam Patterson, second from left, talks with Forrest City Mayor Cedric Williams, far right, and State Rep. Reginald Murdock, second from right, April 16 in Forrest City.

As one who has recovered from COVID-19, state Rep. Reginald Murdock, of Marianna,  knows the importance of the COVID-19 screening and testing UAMS provided April 16 to Forrest City residents. “The citizens are doing the right thing by making sure they get screened and tested, so we can continue to try to slam this curve…


April MVPs — Team UAMS

Yavonda Chase

This month, we recognize Team UAMS. YOU are this month's MVP!

It wasn’t possible to select one person as April’s MVP. ALL of you have done amazing, heroic work these past few weeks. So this month, we are recognizing all of Team UAMS as the MVP of the Month. Thank you for everything YOU are doing to care for Arkansans during this COVID-19 pandemic.


April 16, 2020

New Repository Helps Faculty Stay on Tenure Track During COVID-19

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Carol Thrush, Ed.D. with research poster

Before Arkansas had its first COVID-19 case, the reality of the impending pandemic was already setting in for UAMS faculty as cancellations for scientific conferences worldwide were announced one after another like falling dominos. For scientists and academics, presenting to their peers at conferences is one of the main ways other than publications that they…


April 15, 2020

UAMS Students Collect Personal Protective Equipment for Health Care Workers

David Wise

Student PPE Donations

LITTLE ROCK – Students from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) in both central Arkansas and Northwest Arkansas are collecting personal protective equipment (PPE) to distribute to health care workers throughout the state. The COVID-19 pandemic has created a critical national shortage of masks, surgical gowns and eye gear desperately needed by doctors,…


April 13, 2020

Pathology Chair Jennifer Hunt, M.D., Voted Outstanding Woman Faculty

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Portrait of Dr. Hunt

Jennifer Hunt, M.D., has been voted Outstanding Woman Faculty 2020 by her peers at UAMS as a leader, mentor and nationally recognized champion for women in medicine. Hunt is chair of the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Sciences in the College of Medicine at UAMS. In addition to mentoring individual students and faculty, she has…


Four Tips for Effectively Working from Home

Yavonda Chase

When working from home, create a designated workspace.

With a number of our employees working from home, the Employee Assistance Program has a few tips to help make the experience less stressful and more productive.


April 8, 2020

Seven Receive Inaugural Team Science Awards

David Robinson

Carolyn Greene, Ph.D., who directs TRI's Team Science Program, discusses the program at TRI's fall 2019 planning retreat.

The UAMS Translational Research Institute today announced its first Team Science Voucher Program recipients. The voucher program aims to increase the quantity, quality and effectiveness of cross-disciplinary research at UAMS. Awards of up to $50,000 went to seven UAMS teams from a pool of 26 applications. A study section (group) of 10 UAMS faculty reviewers…


April 3, 2020

UAMS Provides COVID-19 Screening to Helena, Delta Residents

Ben Boulden

Jennifer Hunt, M.D., left, screens a patient for COVID-19 during a UAMS-led drive-through screening in Helena.

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

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Dr. Goree with Healthcare Heroes Logo

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

Yavonda Chase

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.



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