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April 15, 2021
Estate of Eleanor Karam Gives $2.7 Million to Support UAMS Donald W. Reynolds Institute on Aging
![From left, Jean Maier Dean and John Blakney with the late Eleanor Karam. Karam's estate gift will help advance clinical care, research and education for older Arkansans.](https://news.uams.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Eleanor-Jean-John-150x150.jpg)
LITTLE ROCK — The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) has received a $2.7 million gift from the estate of Eleanor Karam to support the highest priorities of the Donald W. Reynolds Institute on Aging. “Ms. Eleanor was a true visionary with a huge heart,” said Jeanne Wei, M.D., Ph.D., director of the institute….
April 13, 2021
UAMS’ Erika Petersen, M.D., Publishes Study Results on Treatment for Painful Diabetic Neuropathy in JAMA
![Erika Petersen, M.D., sees study results published in JAMA](https://news.uams.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Petersen_Erika_MD-08182020-850_9970-150x150.jpg)
Results of a randomized clinical trial led by Erika Petersen, M.D., of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) on use of a spinal cord stimulation system for patients with refractory painful diabetic neuropathy were published April 5 in JAMA Neurology. Petersen, a neurosurgeon and professor in the Department of Neurosurgery in the College…
April 12, 2021
Cancer DNA Blood Tests Validated By International Research Team
![UAMS' Donald Johann Jr., M.D., was part of an international team of researchers that conducted an independent assessment of five commercially-available assays for tumor DNA sequencing. The team's findings were published in the journal Nature Biotechnology.](https://news.uams.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Johann_Donald-MD-150x150.jpg)
LITTLE ROCK — An international team today reports the findings of an independent assessment of five commercially-available assays for tumor DNA sequencing – a fast, cheap and less invasive method to diagnose and monitor cancer.
UAMS Health Breaks Ground on New Surgical Hospital on Main Campus
![Chancellor Cam Patterson speaks before the groundbreaking ceremony for the new UAMS Surgical Hospital.](https://news.uams.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Surgical_Annex-Groundbreaking-featured-150x150.jpg)
LITTLE ROCK — The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) broke ground today in a ceremony marking the start of the construction of the $85 million, UAMS Health Surgical Hospital, which is expected to be complete by spring 2023. The project is being paid for by a bond issue approved this year by the…
April 8, 2021
COVID-19 Vaccination of Surgical Patients Should be Priority, Study Involving UAMS Finds
![Patients awaiting elective surgery should be given priority on vaccines, an international study finds.](https://news.uams.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/iStock-1160049257-150x150.jpg)
Providing COVID-19 vaccines for patients awaiting elective surgery could save 58,687 lives worldwide over the next year, according to results of an international study in which the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) participated. The study findings, based on data gathered in 2020 by COVIDSurg Collaborative, an international network of surgeons, suggests that patients…
April 6, 2021
UAMS Researchers Named Arkansas Research Alliance Scholar, Fellow
![Edward T.H. Yeh, M.D., (left) and Alan Tackett, Ph.D., have been honored by the Arkansas Research Alliance (ARA). The group named Yeh an ARA Scholar and Tackett an ARA Fellow.](https://news.uams.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/ARA-Announcement_2-150x150.jpg)
LITTLE ROCK — The Arkansas Research Alliance (ARA) announced today that two researchers at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences will be joining their ranks.
April 2, 2021
Little Rock Woman Walks Out of Hospital Two Hours After Back Surgery
![After more than a year of back pain, Sammie Rose got her life back thanks to Sam Overley, M.D., at the UAMS Orthopaedic Clinic at Colonel Glenn. Rose left the hospital two hours after her back surgery, making her the first UAMS patient to go home the same day.](https://news.uams.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/sammie-rose-2-150x150.jpg)
When Sammie Kaye Rose woke up from her surgery on Jan. 4, she was pleased to find the back pain that kept her movement limited for more than a year was completely gone.
April 1, 2021
Community Partners Come Together to Fight COVID-19; 4 Mass Vaccination Clinics Set for Arena in North Little Rock
![UAMS Chancellor Cam Patterson speaks April 1 at a news conference at Simmons Bank Arena.](https://news.uams.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/UAMSCam-1-150x150.jpg)
LITTLE ROCK — COVID-19 Community Vaccination Clinics will be held from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., on four dates in April, May and June at Simmons Bank Arena, 1 Simmons Bank Arena Drive in North Little Rock.
March 29, 2021
UAMS Medical Student Accepted for Prestigious NIH Fellowship
![Mason Belue standing outside in white coat](https://news.uams.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Mason-scaled-150x150.jpeg)
LITTLE ROCK — Mason Belue, a second-year medical student at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), is one of 50 students from across the country chosen to participate in a yearlong residential immersion program at the National Institutes of Health campus in Bethesda, Maryland. It is only the second time in a decade…
March 24, 2021
Four UAMS Cancer Institute Scientists Receive Research Grants
![Seeds of Science grant awardees](https://news.uams.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/seeds-of-science-grant-recipients-150x150.jpg)
Four researchers at the UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute received a funding boost thanks to newly awarded $50,000 grants, which were announced in a virtual ceremony March 11. Presented annually since 2009, the Seeds of Science pilot grant awards assist cancer researchers in collecting data and developing projects that have the potential to result…
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