Announcements


February 19, 2020

UAMS Breast Cancer Survivors Honored at Little Rock Trojans Pink Game

Susan Van Dusen

breast cancer survivors

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

Yavonda Chase

Eric Hale, Penny Talbert and Kenneth Bailey created this tree sculpture from wrought iron saved from the homes along Pine and Cedar.

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

Yavonda Chase

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

Yavonda Chase

The 10 TEDxUAMS presenters and some of team that put on the event celebrate on stage at the end of the day.

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

Yavonda Chase

Penny Talbert

Congratulations to Penny Talbert, our February MVP of the Month!


Poison and Drug Information Center at UAMS Inspires Career Choices

Ben Boulden

Josh Harper, Pharm.D., a certified specialist in poison information, takes a call while working in the Arkansas Poison and Drug Information Center.

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

Kate Franks

A grand opening celebration was held Jan. 31 for the new Ronald McDonald Family Room on the fifth floor of the Medical Center.

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.


February 4, 2020

UAMS Launches New Online Literary Journal

Spencer Watson

Medicine and Meaning logo

Medicine and Meaning, a new UAMS literary journal featuring works of fiction, non-fiction, poetry and images, was launched Feb. 4 to foster creativity, imagination and the arts throughout the academic medical center and the UAMS Health system. “Our UAMS community is full of artistic and creative individuals and our journal is a venue to share…


February 3, 2020

Center for Diversity Affairs Becomes Division for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Spencer Watson

The reorganization includes the launch of a new website at ddei.uams.edu.

The UAMS Center for Diversity Affairs, first established in 2011, has been reorganized into the Division for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. The change was prompted by a growth of the division and its strategic objectives under the direction of Brian Gittens, Ed.D., who joined UAMS as vice chancellor for diversity, equity and inclusion in June…


January 30, 2020

Students Receive Exams, Glasses from UAMS Volunteers on MLK Day

Spencer Watson

UAMS Medical Student John Musser checks the vision of a student who visited JEI on MLK Day.

More than 120 students from Little Rock and the surrounding area got a late Christmas present from volunteers at UAMS on Martin Luther King Jr. Day: the gift of clearer vision. The Third Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Pediatric Vision Outreach event was organized by nonprofit Rural Ophthalmology Optometry Treatment & Screening (ROOTS) and Shepherd’s…



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