Sept. 13, 2021 | Each speaker who spoke Sept. 9 to the Army personnel in the Lobby Gallery at UAMS chose different words to deliver the same message: We need you, and we are so very glad you’re here. Including nurses, respiratory therapists and physicians, the 20-person Army medical team arrived Thursday on the main campus for orientation.
Aug. 13, 2021 | For the third year in a row, the ear, nose and throat (ENT) department at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) has been ranked among the top 50 nationwide by U.S. News & World Report. The digital news and information company that is the global leader in quality rankings also recognized UAMS as...
You walk through a nondescript wooden door halfway down the fourth-floor hallway outside the Intensive Care Unit. Suddenly, you’re free from the glare of overhead lights and the cacophony of phones, loudspeakers and beeping machines. You are removed, albeit temporarily, from the all-encompassing, heartbreaking reality of patients you’ve come to know who are fighting to…
Corey Johnson has joined the Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) as executive director of community outreach and engagement. Johnson will work closely with Pearl McElfish, Ph.D., community outreach and engagement associate director and vice chancellor for UAMS Northwest Regional Campus in Fayetteville, to lead community engagement…
LITTLE ROCK — The South Arkansas Center on Aging at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences will host its annual ‘Head 2 Toe’ drive-thru health fair on Sept. 23 for senior adults. The health fair will be held from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. in the parking lot of the Champagnolle Landing Senior Center,…
Stocked & Reddie T-shirts are now available in the UAMS Gift Shop and are approved to wear on campus! The T-shirts are available in sizes from small to 2XL and are $18 each.
To maintain its cutting-edge research efforts, the Brain Imaging Research Center replaced its current Philips 3T Achieva magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanner Monday, Sept. 13 with a new Siemens 3T Prisma MRI scanner, capable of imaging brain function and structure with improved spatial and temporal resolution.
The 25th annual Family Medicine Update with Free Tobacco & Disease Symposium Oct. 26 – 29 offers up to 16 hours of content in a four-day, virtual format.
UAMS Student and Employee Health Services (SEHS) will begin offering seasonal influenza vaccines at 7 a.m. Monday, Sept. 20, in the Hospital Lobby Gallery.
Several UAMS enterprise servers will receive various hardware, software, and security updates Tuesday, Sept. 21, beginning at 8 p.m.
The next continuing education event in PRI’s Project Echo weekly video conference will be “A Case Presentation” from noon to 1 p.m. Friday, Sept. 17.
As he brought the UAMS Physician Assistant Class of 2021 Valediction Ceremony to a close Aug. 27, Edward Williams wiped his eyes, and with a sad smile, he joked that his “eyes tend to sweat” when it’s warm. Williams, MPAS, PA-C, is chair of the Department of Physician Assistant Studies in the College of Health…