Announcements


July 18, 2018

New Ad Campaign Features Those Born at UAMS

Yavonda Chase

"I was born at UAMS."

In the latest commercials for UAMS, the focus is on obstetrics and the many babies born at the state’s only academic medical center.


July 15, 2018

ATMs on Campus

Yavonda Chase

There are six ATMs located in four areas on the UAMS campus. First floor of hospital – Bank of America Central Building near Cafeteria – First Security Bank, UARK Federal Credit Union Outside the College of Medicine’s Dean Suite – Iberia Bank, Regions Bank Near the Cancer Institute’s Gathering Place Café – Iberia Bank


July 13, 2018

UAMS Medical Center Certified as First and Only Comprehensive Stroke Center in Arkansas

Ben Boulden

Seen here outside the UAMS Department of Neurosurgery, the UAMS Medical Center stroke team along with other UAMS physicians and staff recently achieved Comprehensive Stroke Center desgination for the medical center.

July 13, 2018 | UAMS Medical Center has become the first and only health care provider in Arkansas to be certified as a Comprehensive Stroke Center by The Joint Commission.


July 11, 2018

Hagemeier to Hold Training Rides for Myeloma’s Ride for Research

News Staff

Mark Hagemeier is volunteering to help other UAMS employees interested in participating in the 2018 UAMS Myeloma Institute’s Ride for Research, held in conjunction with the Big Dam Bridge 100 on Sept. 29.


July 6, 2018

First-Year Residents from UAMS Regional Campuses Gather

Ben Boulden

Mark Jansen, M.D., standing center, speaks to a group of first-year residents.

July 6, 2018 | While health care in recent years has pursued the triple aim of patient satisfaction and positive health outcomes while reducing the costs, Mark Jansen, M.D., told first-year resident physicians June 21 there should be a fourth target — provider satisfaction. “If we don’t have healthy, happy providers, you are not going…


July 5, 2018

Employee Accolades — July 2018

Yavonda Chase

Yvette Aultman, a medical assistant in the Medical Oncology Clinic, received the Golden Mug for June as the staff member at the Cancer Institute whose work deserves special recognition.


July 2018

Yavonda Chase


UAMS Gets Nurse Anesthesia Specialty Program Approval

News Staff

UAMS College of Nursing Nurse Anesthesia

July 5, 2018 | The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) has received approval from the Arkansas Department of Higher Education for a Nurse Anesthesia specialty in the College of Nursing’s Doctor of Nursing Practice (D.N.P.) program. The UAMS Council of Deans and the University of Arkansas Board of Trustees previously approved the program. The…


July 3, 2018

UAMS Telemedicine Program in Magazine School District Reduces Obesity

Ben Boulden

Students in the Magazine School District play during HealthyNow field Day.

July 3, 2018 | More than half of obese fifth through eighth graders in the Magazine School District reduced their obesity in the last year after participating in a program by the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Center for Distance Health. The program is part of the School Telemedicine in Arkansas (STAR) program…


July 2, 2018

Pharmacy Students Create Drug-Counseling Videos for YouTube

News Staff

It all started with a visit to a local pharmacy.

Seth Heldenbrand, Pharm.D., the College of Pharmacy’s associate dean of experiential education and an associate professor, was picking up a new prescription and noticed that with a simple click of a box he had opted out of drug counseling by the pharmacist.



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