College of Medicine
December 14, 2021
UAMS Neurosurgeon’s Study on Breakthrough Treatment for Painful Diabetic Neuropathy Published in Diabetes Care
![Erika Petersen, M.D., is the director of Functional and Restorative Neurosurgery at UAMS.](https://news.uams.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Petersen_Erika_MD-08182020-850_9970-1-150x150.jpg)
Results of a 12-month multicenter randomized clinical trial led by Erika Petersen, M.D., a professor of neurosurgery at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), were published online Nov. 29 in Diabetes Care, highlighting the benefits of a breakthrough treatment for patients with painful diabetic neuropathy (PDN). Petersen, director of Functional and Restorative Neurosurgery…
December 10, 2021
UAMS Physicians Among Top Doctors in America
![UAMS physicians are among the Top Doctors in Arkansas.](https://news.uams.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Hospital-exterior-150x150.jpg)
Physicians at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) have been named Castle Connolly Top Doctors.
December 9, 2021
New Report by CDC, UAMS Finds 1 in 44 Arkansas 8-Year-Olds Have Autism Spectrum Disorder
![Maya Lopez, M.D., is a professor in the UAMS College of Medicine's Department of Pediatrics.](https://news.uams.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/maya-lopez_pediatrics-150x150.jpg)
A new report shows the number of 8-year-old Arkansas children diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is significantly higher than data released two years ago by the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS).
December 8, 2021
Fayetteville Man’s Life Improves Dramatically after Nasal Surgery at UAMS
![Stein Erik Peterson visits UAMS for a check-up after his surgery.](https://news.uams.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/DSC4744_edited-150x150.jpg)
Stein Erik Peterson had no idea how good a boiled egg could taste. He had completely forgotten the heady, lemony aroma that filled his nostrils when he was a boy and his mother bustled around the house spraying the furniture with polish. He didn’t know it was possible to sleep so peacefully. But since undergoing…
December 7, 2021
UAMS Researchers Discover Potential Way to Control Immune Responses
![UAMS' Hui-Ming Chang, M.D., and Edward T.H. Yeh, M.D., have led the research behind a discovery of a possible way to control immune responses.](https://news.uams.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Drs-Hui-Ming-ChangEdward-Yeh-11152021-850_9340-002-150x150.jpg)
LITTLE ROCK — Researchers at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) have discovered how a key switch in the body’s immune response is turned on and off, opening the door to new treatments for those with life-threatening, uncontrolled immune responses.
December 6, 2021
COVID-19’s Impact on Asian-Americans Significant but Not Well-Documented, Associate Dean Says
![Sara Tariq, M.D., illustrates her talk with graphics.](https://news.uams.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Tariq1-150x150.jpg)
There is a tendency when discussing the impact of COVID-19 in America to treat all Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders as a monolith, Sara Tariq, M.D., associate dean of student affairs in the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) College of Medicine, told a crowd of mostly students on Nov. 18. “Painting us with…
Hillary Williams, M.D., Movement Disorders Specialist, Joins UAMS Neurology Department
![Hillary Williams, M.D., portrait in white coat](https://news.uams.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Williams_Hillary-Ann_wide-150x150.jpg)
Hillary Williams, M.D., a specialist in movement disorders, has joined the Department of Neurology in the College of Medicine at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) as an assistant professor. Williams is a native Arkansan who recently completed a two-year fellowship in movement disorders at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, which Lee…
December 2, 2021
Students Chosen for Geriatric Student Scholars Program
![The 2022 Geriatric Student Scholars (from left) Anna Harrison (CHP), Gale Menotti (COP), Erica Dewey (COM) and Tenia Marshall (CON).](https://news.uams.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Geriatric-1-150x150.jpg)
The Arkansas Geriatric Education Collaborative (AGEC) at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) has chosen students for its 2022 Geriatric Student Scholars Program.
November 26, 2021
UAMS Testing ‘Big Advance’ in Spinal Cord Stimulation; First Arkansas Participant Now Pain Free
![Cornelia Ann Smith of Calico Rock, Ark., here with two of her grandchildren, is pain free thanks to her participation in a UAMS study of an advance in spinal cord stimulation devices.](https://news.uams.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Grandma-Smith-with-Lizzie-and-Elena-150x150.jpeg)
Cornelia Ann Smith’s severe chronic back pain disappeared almost as soon as the experimental spinal cord stimulator was activated in a procedure at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS). “I realized the device was helping me immediately,” the Calico Rock, Ark., resident said. Then, back home, it really began to sink in. “I…
November 23, 2021
UAMS’ Analiz Rodriguez, M.D., Ph.D., Selected for Diversity in Clinical Trials Career Development Program
![UAMS neurosurgeon Analiz Rodriguez, M.D., Ph.D., is one of 52 early-stage researchers invited to participate in the Bristol Myers Squibb Foundation's Diversity in Clinical Trials Career Development Program.](https://news.uams.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Rodriguez_Analiz-06132019-DSC_1991-150x150.jpg)
LITTLE ROCK — The Bristol Myers Squibb Foundation (BMSF), along with its partners National Medical Fellowships and the American Association for Cancer Research, selected University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) neurosurgeon Analiz Rodriguez, M.D., Ph.D., to participate in its Diversity in Clinical Trials Career Development Program.
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