College of Medicine
March 27, 2023
NIH, NSF Fund UAMS Study of Rapid Genomic Testing to Aid Treatment of Dangerous Antibiotic-Resistant Infections
LITTLE ROCK — Two national grants are helping researchers at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) toward their goal of providing rapid, life-saving genomic information to doctors treating the most dangerous antibiotic-resistant infections. The study began with a $50,000 pilot award from the UAMS Translational Research Institute, which was used to gather data…
March 22, 2023
UAMS Holds Match Day Celebrations for College of Medicine Seniors
Freshmen at Start of Pandemic, Class of 2023 Attended Majority of Classes Virtually About 150 senior medical students and their guests gathered on the morning of March 17 on two UAMS campuses to find out where they will be continuing their training after receiving their medical degrees in May. Dubbed the “March Madness of Medicine”…
March 21, 2023
UAMS Department of Neurology Adds Specialists in Movement Disorders and Epilepsy
LITTLE ROCK — The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Department of Neurology recently added Aditya Vikram Boddu, M.D., and Hisham Elkhider, M.D., as assistant professors. Boddu, a fellowship trained neurologist specializing in movement disorders who is board-certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, is seeing patients in the Movement Disorders Clinic…
March 20, 2023
UAMS Holds Second Girlology Puberty Event
The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) welcomed more than 230 preteen and teen girls and their mothers, fathers or caregivers to the second Girlology puberty event.
March 13, 2023
UAMS’ Lawrence Cornett, Ph.D., Receives National Award for NIH IDeA Contributions
LITTLE ROCK — The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences’ (UAMS) Lawrence Cornett, Ph.D., has received the W. Fred Taylor Ph.D. Award in recognition of his significant contributions to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Institutional Development Award (IDeA) program. The award presentation took place Feb. 28 at the Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research…
March 7, 2023
Rangaswamy Govindarajan, M.D., Named Chief of UAMS Hematology and Oncology Division
Rangaswamy Govindarajan, M.D., hematologist and oncologist at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, has been appointed chief of the Division of Hematology and Oncology at the UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute. Govindarajan, who is also a professor in the division, will lead a growing team of physicians treating patients with benign and malignant…
March 3, 2023
Ukadike Uses College of Public Health Education to Help Provide Well-Rounded Services to His Patients
John Ukadike, D.O., MPH, is a Little Rock Family Medicine resident physician at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences’ (UAMS). He’s a product of the UAMS Fay W. Boozman College of Public Health’s Master of Public Health (MPH) program. Ukadike later went to the New York Institute of Technology, where he earned his doctorate….
February 28, 2023
UAMS Receives $600,000 to Provide Post-Partum Contraceptive Devices in Little Rock, Fort Smith
LITTLE ROCK — An anonymous donor has provided $600,000 in second-year grant funding to the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) to continue providing long-acting reversible contraception devices (LARCs) for uninsured post-partum patients in Little Rock and Fort Smith. The intrauterine devices and birth-control implants are inserted before a patient is discharged from a…
February 27, 2023
Shami Nandy, M.D., and Onna Lau, M.D., Join UAMS Thomas and Lyon Longevity Clinic
LITTLE ROCK — The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) has welcomed Shami Nandy, M.D., and Onna Lau, M.D., as new physicians at the Thomas and Lyon Longevity Clinic in the Donald W. Reynolds Institute on Aging. Nandy joined UAMS as an assistant professor in the College of Medicine’s Department of Geriatrics. She will…
February 22, 2023
Board-Certified Oncologist Sri Obulareddy, M.D., Joins UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute
Sri Obulareddy, M.D., has joined the breast team in the Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), where she is treating patients with breast cancer. She is board certified in internal medicine and medical oncology. In addition to treating breast cancer patients, she also serves as associate professor…
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