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April 30, 2024

UAMS College of Medicine Celebrates Excellence at 2024 Dean’s Honor Day

Tamara Robinson

Eduardo R. “Eddie” Ochoa Jr., M.D., winner of the Dean’s Distinguished Faculty Service Award, thanks colleagues and congratulates fellow award recipients at the UAMS College of Medicine 2024 Dean’s Honor Day ceremony.

The College of Medicine at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) celebrated the excellence of faculty and staff at its annual Dean’s Honor Day ceremony on April 16, presenting awards for teaching, clinical care, research, administration, humanism and service.


April 26, 2024

Brotherly Love — UAMS’ Chief Nephrologist Receives Kidney from Younger Sibling

Linda Satter

Steve Arhur, standing, in hospital gown, visits with John Arthur, M.D., in a patient bed, after the surgery in which Steve donate a kidney to John.

John Arthur, chief kidney doctor at the University of Arkansas Medical Sciences (UAMS), understands the benefits of a living kidney donation more than most people would expect. As the director of the Division of Nephrology in the UAMS Department of Internal Medicine since 2015, he has long been aware that about 100,000 patients across the…


April 24, 2024

UAMS Holds Ribbon-Cutting Ceremony for Child Development Center in Little Rock

Chris Carmody

Stephanie Gardner, UAMS provost and chief strategy officer, cuts the ribbon at a ceremony to celebrate the UAMS Child Development Center, which is scheduled to open in early May.

The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) held a ribbon-cutting ceremony today for the UAMS Child Development Center in Little Rock, a 20,000-square-foot facility that is scheduled to open in early May. The center will provide services for about 200 children, from infancy through prekindergarten, of UAMS employees and students. Of those slots, 10%…


April 19, 2024

Fort Smith Retiree Heading to Disney World after Successful Proton Therapy for Brain Tumors

Marty Trieschmann

Female caner patient Malinda Larey standing in hallway of Proton Center

In November 2023, Malinda Larey, 67, of Fort Smith, Arkansas, was all set to jump on the retirement travel bandwagon when she was unexpectedly diagnosed with atypical meningioma. Meningiomas are tumors that grow from the membranes surrounding the brain and spinal cord. Patients can have a range of symptoms — from none to severe seizures,…


April 16, 2024

Nine UAMS Physicians Named Healthcare Research All-Stars

Linda Satter

a composite of portraits of Barnes, Stambough, Stronach, Inamdar, Al'Aref and Giorgakis.

 LITTLE ROCK — Nine current and former physicians at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) have been named Healthcare Research All-Stars for 2024 by Avant-garde Health. Additionally, it placed the UAMS Hip and Knee surgery team among the top 1% of hip and knee surgeons nationwide, the orthopaedic surgery team among the top…


April 15, 2024

UAMS Invests Shashank Kraleti, M.D., in Dr. Algernon Sidney Garnett Chair in Family Medicine

Andrew Vogler

Kraleti Investiture

LITTLE ROCK — The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) College of Medicine invested Shashank Kraleti, M.D., in the Dr. Algernon Sidney Garnett Chair in Family Medicine during an April 10 ceremony. Kraleti is chair of the UAMS Department of Family and Preventive Medicine in the College of Medicine and serves as the director…


April 12, 2024

UAMS Celebrates Once in a Generation Event — Total Solar Eclipse

Ben Boulden

The total solar eclipse at 1:51 p.m., April 8, left; UAMS employees, center, get ready to view the eclipse at the Bruce Fountain in front of the Medical Center; right, the sun in partial eclipse. (eclipse photos courtesy of John Sykes; center photo by Keith Whitworth)

As the moon completely covered the disk of the sun for three minutes on April 8, hundreds of members of Team UAMS together witnessed the rare event — a total solar eclipse. Audible gasps and exclamations of awe were heard across the field between the Shorey Building and Hooper Drive and around the Bruce Fountain…


April 11, 2024

Judd Hill Foundation Pledges $1 Million to Support UAMS Northeast Regional Campus, Cancer Patients

Andrew Vogler

Judd Hill Foundation press conference

LITTLE ROCK — The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) announced today in Jonesboro that the Judd Hill Foundation has pledged $1 million to establish the Judd Hill Foundation Fund for Excellence in support of the UAMS Northeast Regional Campus and cancer patients in the region. “I would like to thank the Judd Hill…


April 4, 2024

NIH Awards UAMS Researchers $2.27 Million to Study Estrogen’s Role in Preventing Bone Loss

David Robinson

UAMS’ Maria Schuller Almeida, Ph.D. (left), and Ha-Neui (Hans) Kim, Ph.D., will use new funding from the National Institutes of Health to answer key questions about estrogen’s important role in preventing bone loss.

LITTLE ROCK — Researchers at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) will use a $2.27 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to answer key questions about the cellular mechanisms used by estrogen to prevent bone loss and osteoporosis. The five-year NIH National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases…


April 1, 2024

UAMS Jones Eye Institute Advises Eye Protection for April Eclipse

Benjamin Waldrum

Child wearing eclipse glasses

Proper eye protection is highly important when viewing an eclipse, said experts at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences’ (UAMS) Harvey & Bernice Jones Eye Institute. On April 8, the continental United States will be treated to a total eclipse of the sun. This amazing phenomenon will be the first total eclipse to cross…



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