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January 21, 2021
Vascular Surgeon Provides Long-term Solution, Peace of Mind for Fort Smith Family
Mia Nelson, 19, knew for a while she wanted to become a health care professional. She is surrounded by plenty of inspiration. Her mother, Natalie Nelson, is an ultrasound technologist. And her father Richard Nelson, M.D., is a radiologist. After her experience as a patient at the UAMS Medical Center, Mia Nelson decided the UAMS…
January 19, 2021
UAMS Myeloma Center Social Work Manager Appointed to National Board
LITTLE ROCK — The Board of Oncology Social Work Certification (BOSWC) recently chose Harold Dean, LCSW, OCW-C, clinical social work program manager for the Myeloma Center at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) to serve on its board. Dean will serve for three years. The BOSWC, established in 2003, promotes excellence in psychosocial…
UAMS Health Launches Back and Neck Clinic
LITTLE ROCK — The new UAMS Health Back and Neck Clinic launched today, combining the best of established programs to offer team-based care at one convenient location, 10815 Colonel Glenn Road in Little Rock.
January 14, 2021
UAMS To Open COVID-19 Vaccine Clinic
LITTLE ROCK — The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) will begin offering COVID-19 vaccines to Arkansans aged 70 and older as well as teachers and other education workers, including K-12, child care and higher education, on Tuesday, Jan. 19. Vaccines will be administered in a UAMS clinic on the seventh floor of the Freeway Medical Tower at 5800 W. 10th St. in Little Rock. Appointments are required.
National Report Gives High Marks to UAMS’ Kidney, Liver Transplant Programs
The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences’ kidney and liver transplant programs received high national rankings in biannual data released Jan. 5 by the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients. The SRTR evaluates the status of the nation’s solid organ transplant system and publicly releases the data every December/January and June/July at the directive of the…
January 13, 2021
UAMS Regional Campuses Upgrade Health Record Software
More than 65,000 patients across Arkansas now have better access to seamless care with the conversion of University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Regional Campuses to Epic electronic medical record software. Epic has been used in central Arkansas at the UAMS Medical Center and UAMS clinics for approximately eight years. Epic allows UAMS physicians…
January 12, 2021
UAMS’s Barnes Named by Becker’s Healthcare Among Top U.S. Orthopaedic Surgeons
C. Lowry Barnes, M.D., chair of Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), has been named one of “65 total knee replacements surgeons to know” by Becker’s Healthcare. “I’m grateful to be mentioned in such company by such an authoritative voice in the world of health care,” said Barnes. “That recognition…
January 4, 2021
UAMS Medical Center Discharges Its 1,000th COVID-19 Patient
Confetti flew while cheers and applause echoed down a UAMS Medical Center hallway as UAMS Chancellor Cam Patterson, M.D., MBA, guided Michael Kent in a wheelchair between rows of exuberant physicians, nurses and staff. Kent was the 1,000th COVID-19 patient to be discharged and to start his journey home. Kent, who works as a senior…
December 15, 2020
COVID-19 Vaccine Available to UAMS Employees
LITTLE ROCK — The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) received its first allocation of 2,000 COVID-19 vaccinations from the Arkansas Department of Health today and began administering the first vaccines to critical health care employees.
December 14, 2020
Sports Medicine physician Kathryn Nance Joins UAMS Orthopaedics
LITTLE ROCK — Kathryn L. Nance, M.D., a board-certified family medicine doctor who is fellowship-trained in sports medicine, has joined the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) and is seeing patients at the UAMS Health Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine Clinic at 10815 Colonel Glenn Road in Little Rock. She is a member of the…
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