College of Medicine


November 3, 2023

UAMS, LRPD Receive $500,000 Grant to Create Police, Social Worker Response Teams

Tim Taylor

Lisa Evans, M.D., director of the UAMS Pulaski County Regional Crisis Stabilization Unit, will help train LRPD crisis response teams.

LITTLE ROCK — A $500,000 grant from the federal Bureau of Justice Assistance will be used to create crisis response teams of Little Rock police officers and social workers that will be overseen by University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) medical staff.


November 2, 2023

Healthgrades Bestows Top Ranking on UAMS for Brain Surgery, Treatment of Heart Failure, Pneumonia, Respiratory Failure

Linda Satter

4 Healthgrades badges

LITTLE ROCK — Healthgrades, the leading resource used by consumers to find a health care provider, today bestowed five stars — its highest rating — on the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) for its treatment of heart failure, pneumonia and respiratory failure, and — for the third consecutive year — cranial neurosurgery, or…


October 31, 2023

Plastic Surgeon David Sterling, M.D., Joins UAMS, Will Offer Elective, Cosmetic Procedures at New Clinic

Yavonda Chase

David Sterling, M.D.

LITTLE ROCK — David Sterling, M.D., has joined the Department of Surgery at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) as an assistant professor of plastic surgery.


October 24, 2023

Neurosurgeon Hector Enrique Soriano-Baron, M.D., Joins UAMS as Co-Director of Spine Services

Linda Satter

Hector Enrique Soriano-Baron, M.D.

LITTLE ROCK — Hector Enrique Soriano-Baron, M.D., a triple fellowship-trained neurosurgeon, has joined the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) as co-director of UAMS spine services. An assistant professor in the UAMS College of Medicine departments of Neurosurgery and Orthopaedic Surgery, Soriano-Baron was previously on the faculty at the Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital in…


October 18, 2023

Matt Kern, M.D., Andrea McMahon, M.D. Join UAMS Psychiatric Research Institute-Northwest

Tim Taylor

Matt Kern, M.D., and Andrea McMahon, M.D.

FAYETTEVILLE — Matt Kern, M.D., and Andrea McMahon, M.D., have joined the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Psychiatric Research Institute – Northwest as outpatient psychiatrists.


October 17, 2023

Baptist Health Opens UAMS Milk Bank Depots in Conway and Stuttgart

Andrew Vogler

UAMS Milk Bank

LITTLE ROCK — Baptist Health, in support of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Milk Bank, has opened milk depots at two of its medical centers in Conway and Stuttgart. The Conway Baptist Health Milk Depot and the Stuttgart Baptist Health Milk Depot are designated spaces for women to donate milk, which will…


Psychiatrist Todd Brinkley, M.D., Joins UAMS Psychiatric Research Institute

Tim Taylor

Todd Brinkley, M.D., sees patients in the Psychiatric Research Institute’s Walker Family Clinic.

LITTLE ROCK — Todd Brinkley, M.D., has joined the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Psychiatric Research Institute as an outpatient psychiatrist.


October 13, 2023

UAMS Receives Grants from Blue & You Foundation to Expand, Build Mental Health Programs

Tim Taylor

Nikki Edge, Ph.D., talks about the Pathways to Wellness program she will lead with Laura Dunn, M.D. (left).

The Blue & You Foundation for a Healthier Arkansas announced a series of grants totaling $5.9 million targeting trauma, substance use and suicide among youth and adolescents at a press conference held Oct. 5 at the Clinton Presidential Center, including two to develop and expand programs at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS).


October 11, 2023

UAMS Researchers Find Black, Hispanic Women More Likely than White Women to Get Routine Mammograms

David Wise

Woman getting a mammogram

FAYETTEVILLE — Black and Hispanic women are more likely than white women to receive routine breast cancer screenings, according to a study conducted by researchers at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Office of Community Health & Research. Previous studies have documented that Black and Hispanic women have been less likely than white…


October 10, 2023

Thoracic Surgeon Nicholas D. Tingquist, M.D., Joins UAMS

Marty Trieschmann

photo of a doctor in white coat

Nicholas D. Tingquist, M.D., a fellowship-trained, board-certified surgeon, joined the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) as an assistant professor in the UAMS College of Medicine’s Division of Thoracic Surgery. Tingquist treats patients with lung, esophageal and other cancers of the chest, as well as non-cancerous thoracic diseases and conditions, including infectious lung disease,…



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