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September 8, 2022

Northwest Arkansas Crisis Stabilization Re-Opens Under UAMS Leadership

Yavonda Chase

Kristen McAllister, (second from right) director of the Northwest Arkansas Crisis Stabilization Unit, gives State Reps. Jim Dotson, Robin Lundstrum and Nicole Clowney a tour of the unit's garden area.

Until the Northwest Arkansas Crisis Stabilization Unit opened last month in Fayetteville, too often the choices for those going through a mental-health crisis were limited: jail or the hospital.


BioVentures Team Aims to ‘Change Culture,’ Help Researchers Advance Discoveries

David Robinson

Kevin Sexton, M.D., here at a recent planning retreat, is making organizational changes at BioVentures that he hopes will help more researchers commercialize their discoveries.

Kevin Sexton, M.D., stepped into the role as president of BioVentures LLC this year with a vision and a plan for increasing commercialization resources to UAMS-affiliated researchers.


September 6, 2022

New Mother with Sickle Cell Comes to UAMS to “Get Rejuvenated and Go Back to Life”

Benjamin Waldrum

Jada and TJ Mosby

Sickle cell disease is just another part of everyday life for Jada Mosby, 24. And as a new mother, she doesn’t plan on letting it slow her down anytime soon. “It’s just part of my life,” she said. “It is my life, but it’s nothing to me.” As a baby, Mosby was diagnosed with sickle…


September 2, 2022

Lawmaker’s Staff Visits UAMS to Learn More about Research of Veterans’ Exposure to Burn Pits

David Robinson

After their meeting, members of Sen. John Boozman’s staff posed with UAMS researchers (l-r) Patrick McGuigan (Boozman), Shuk-Mei Ho, Ph.D., Bradley Plunkett (Boozman), Yuet-Kin Leung, Ph.D., Mary Shepard and Labaron King (Boozman).

During a recent visit with University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) researchers, Patrick McGuigan from U.S. Sen. John Boozman’s office said the research team’s newly funded project will help ensure that veterans who were exposed to open burn pits receive appropriate health care. Shuk-Mei Ho, Ph.D., UAMS vice chancellor for Research and Innovation and…


September 1, 2022

UAMS Receives $350,000 in Grants from Walmart Foundation, Alice L. Walton Foundation to Support Double Your Dollars Food Assistance Program

Andrew Vogler

NWA Farmers' Market Alliance

LITTLE ROCK — The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) received grants from the Walmart Foundation, $250,000, and the Alice L. Walton Foundation, $100,000, to support the Northwest Arkansas (NWA) Farmers’ Market Alliance’s Double Your Dollars program, an initiative that provides residents access to affordable, healthy foods at farmers markets. Created in 2012 to…


August 26, 2022

Laser Treatment Gives UAMS Patient Relief from Kidney Stones

Yavonda Chase

Jeff Hankins battled kidney stones for years. He underwent a procedure in which a laser was used to shatter the stones into tiny pieces.

For Jeff Hankins, kidney stones were an unfortunate part of life. But in the past couple of years, passing the stones without medical help became a lot harder as the stones got larger.


August 25, 2022

UAMS, AmeriCorps Announces Food Security Initiative in Arkansas

David Wise

Daniel Dunlap, AmeriCorps South Central deputy regional administrator, announces a VISTA initiative with UAMS to fight food insecurity.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – AmeriCorps, the federal agency for national service and volunteerism, announced more than $255,000 in American Rescue Plan grant funding to the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences as part of the AmeriCorps VISTA program’s food security initiative over the next three years.


August 24, 2022

UAMS Receives $3.4 Million to Study Radiation Injuries Caused by Nuclear Accidents and Bioterrorism

Marty Trieschmann

This UAMS research team was awarded $3.4 million dollars to study the effects of radiation

The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) has received $3.4 million in funding from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health, to study acute and delayed injuries caused by full-body radiation exposure from a nuclear accident or bioterrorism.


August 16, 2022

UAMS Fay W. Boozman College of Public Health Basks in Two Decades of Success

Kev' Moye

Joseph Bates, M.D., speaks to Samantha Wells, a doctoral student in the Fay W. Boozman College of Public Health, following her Grand Rounds presentation at the Arkansas Department of Health.

Standing behind a podium in the Rahn Auditorium, Joseph Bates, M.D., MS., prepared to present an award during the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences’ Fay W. Boozman College of Public Health’s 2022 Convocation.


August 15, 2022

UAMS College of Medicine Welcomes Class of 2026 to Two Campuses

Linda Satter

Susan Smyth, M.D., Ph.D., dean of the College of Medicine, addresses the audience at Robinson Center Performance Hall.

Aug. 15, 2022 | The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) welcomed the incoming College of Medicine Class of 2026 in an Aug. 5 white coat ceremony held simultaneously at two different campuses for the first time in UAMS history. The new physicians-in-training gathered for the first in-person ceremony celebrating this rite of passage…



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