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March 17, 2020
UAMS Scientists Awarded Grants for Cancer Research
Newly awarded grants are advancing research efforts at the UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute. Three Seeds of Science small grant awards of $50,000 each were presented March 5 to UAMS cancer researchers at “The Doctor is in” event hosted by the Envoys volunteer advocacy group.
March 13, 2020
Orthopaedics Scholarship Encourages Student Diversity
The UAMS College of Medicine has established a scholarship to recruit underrepresented minority students to its orthopaedics program, one of only a handful of medical schools in the country to do so. The scholarship provides financial support to encourage fourth-year minority students outside of UAMS to apply for a four-week visiting student rotation in orthopaedic…
March 11, 2020
UAMS Medical Center Recognized as Center of Excellence for Childbirth Complication Placenta Accreta Spectrum
The Maternal Safety Foundation has named the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Medical Center an Accreta Center of Excellence, recognizing its superior care for a life-threatening childbirth complication called placenta accreta spectrum disorder. UAMS Medical Center is the first hospital in the nation to receive the designation, which indicates that UAMS has both…
March 10, 2020
UAMS Students Introduce High School Visitors to Health Care Careers
More than 80 UAMS student volunteers, mostly from the College of Medicine, welcomed dozens of high school students from across Arkansas to the UAMS main campus Feb. 22 to introduce them to careers in health care. The event, called Health Professions Recruitment and Exposure Program (HPREP) was presented by the UAMS chapter of the Student…
Teen Gets Body-Powered Arm at UAMS Amputee Clinic
It was a great day for fishing in May almost two years ago when Bryce Cook, of Arkadelphia, who had just turned 16, headed toward the river on a side-by-side to pursue one of his favorite pastimes. By all accounts – his own, witnesses, subsequent police investigation – he wasn’t going fast when, as the…
March 4, 2020
Guest Lecture Addresses Bias toward Health Care Workers
What should doctors, nurses or other health care providers do when a patient makes a request that seems discriminatory? Leon McDougle, M.D., M.P.H., chief diversity officer and professor at the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, was a guest of the UAMS Division for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion to discuss precisely that situation in a…
March 2, 2020
Arkansan’s Golf Swing Breaks Back, Leads to Myeloma Diagnosis
In 2017, Wade Bennett of Hackett, Arkansas, was 50, and physically active, both in his work as the owner of his company, WB Drywall, and in his leisure time. He also thought he was in good health. “I had a golf tournament coming up and I was swinging an eight iron in my yard and…
Breastfeeding Program for Incarcerated Women Secures Donation from Medela
Incarcerated women who are new breastfeeding moms at the J. Aaron Hawkins Sr. Center in Wrightsville, Arkansas, will have access to over 200 pounds of breastfeeding supplies recently donated by Medela, a leading manufacturer of breast pumps in the United States. The donation came about through UAMS’ partnership with the Hawkins’ Growing Together program. Growing…
February 25, 2020
UAMS Earns Bronze Award among Military Friendly Schools
UAMS was one of only two schools in Arkansas to earn a Bronze Award on the 2020 Military Friendly Schools list published by VIQTORY, a veteran-owned small business that connects veterans to civilian business and educational opportunities. “As a veteran myself, I’m gratified to see UAMS honored for the special attention it pays to those…
Patient Moves Forward in Sickle Cell Care and in Life
Feb. 25, 2020 | Maturing into adulthood often means leaving familiar things behind while embracing new ones, and Jayla Buford did just that in late 2019 as a sickle cell patient. Buford had been receiving care through the sickle cell program at Arkansas Children’s Hospital since she was 4. In late 2019, now an adult,…
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