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September 28, 2022
UAMS Fay W. Boozman College of Public Health Celebrates 20th Anniversary
The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Fay W. Boozman College of Public Health celebrated its 20th anniversary with a gala earlier this month at the Arkansas Governor’s Mansion. Several elected officials, in addition to several of the college’s community supporters, faculty, staff and students attended the Sept. 9 soiree. The event featured special…
September 27, 2022
UAMS College of Nursing’s BSN Program Ranked 67th in Nation by U.S. News & World Report
LITTLE ROCK — U.S. News & World Report recognized the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) College of Nursing as one of the nation’s top 100 undergraduate nursing programs for the 2022-23 academic year.
September 23, 2022
Implant Offers UAMS Patient Relief from Painful Diabetic Neuropathy
Herb Lair got an upgrade to his quality of life after having a device implanted in his spinal cord at UAMS. Lair, 78, suffered from painful diabetic neuropathy (PDN) for about two years until he had the procedure in June 2022. Even after major back surgery and different treatment therapies, Lair had trouble walking long…
September 19, 2022
UAMS Ramping Up ‘Resource Optimization’ Efforts for Fiscal Year 2023
In response to rapid inflation and increased patient care expenses, UAMS is expanding a successful savings initiative to find $85 million in savings for fiscal year 2023.
September 16, 2022
New Cooking Class at UAMS Helps Parkinson’s Patients Learn to Manage Tremors in the Kitchen
|From slicing onions to boiling eggs to removing a sheet of perfectly browned vegetables from the oven, cooking when you have Parkinson’s disease and don’t move as gracefully as you once did can be challenging. But it can also be necessary, therapeutic and for many, just plain fun. For all those reasons, as well as…
September 15, 2022
UAMS College of Public Health Researchers to Use $4 Million Grant to Address Health Impact of Structural Racism, Discrimination on Middle-Aged Black Men
LITTLE ROCK — Researchers from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Fay W. Boozman College of Public Health’s Southern Public Health and Criminal Justice Research Center will use a $4 million grant from the National Institute of Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) to study structural racism and discrimination. Specifically, the researchers are…
September 14, 2022
UAMS Breaks Ground on Child Development Center
LITTLE ROCK — The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) broke ground today on a nearly $10 million Child Development Center on a four-acre property in Little Rock. The approximately 20,000-square-foot Child Development Center will be built at the intersection of 11th and Monroe streets, just south of the Hillary Rodham Clinton Children’s Library…
September 13, 2022
UAMS Invests Jonathan Laryea, M.D., in Nolie and Norma Mumey Endowed Chair in Surgery
LITTLE ROCK — The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) College of Medicine invested Jonathan Laryea, M.D., chief of the Division of Colorectal Surgery in the Department of Surgery and medical director of cancer services at UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute, in the Nolie and Norma Mumey Endowed Chair in Surgery during a…
UAMS Invests Matthew A. Steliga, M.D., in Kent C. Westbrook, M.D., Distinguished Chair in Surgical Oncology
LITTLE ROCK — The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) College of Medicine invested Matthew A. Steliga, M.D., chief of the Division of Thoracic Surgery in the UAMS Department of Surgery and a tenured professor of surgery in the UAMS College of Medicine, in the Kent C. Westbrook, M.D., Distinguished Chair in Surgical Oncology…
September 12, 2022
UAMS Breast Cancer Program Earns National Reaccreditation
UAMS Oncologists Appointed to National Board The Breast Cancer program at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute has earned reaccreditation from the National Accreditation Program for Breast Centers (NAPBC). Ronda S. Henry-Tillman, M.D., chief of Breast Oncology at UAMS, has been appointed vice chair of NAPBC, along with…
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