Dec. 2, 2019 | Thanks in part to UAMS Health, the Arkansas Department of Corrections recently dedicated a room for new mothers to pump and breastfeed at the J. Aaron Hawkins Sr. Center, a medium-security prison in Wrightsville. It is part of a program called Growing Together that works to support the needs of incarcerated women who are pregnant...
Oct. 1, 2019 | Patty Allen is the first to admit it: Mammograms make her nervous. With no history of breast cancer in her family, she never imagined the test would come back positive. But the experience always left her rattled nonetheless.
The full power of UAMS experts in dementia was on display at the Dementia Update hosted by the UAMS Reynolds Institute on Aging on Nov. 21-22. The conference drew more than 130 health care professionals and caregivers. The theme was “Preserving function and information about quality of life” among patients with neurocognitive disorders. The presentations…
All UAMS faculty are invited to attend AR-IMPACT, a weekly free interactive televideo program, from noon to 1 p.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 11, in PRI Conference Room 136. This week’s session will feature Televideo Case Conferences and “Quality of Life.”
The next continuing education event in PRI’s Project Echo weekly video conference will be “Opioid Free: Success Stories of Effectively Stopping Opioid Use” from noon to 1 p.m. Friday, Dec. 13, in PRI, Room 158. There will be no Project Echo sessions on Dec. 20, 27 and Jan. 3 because of the holidays.
UAMS’ Teresita Bellido, Ph.D., an internationally known leader in bone research, was named an Arkansas Research Alliance (ARA) Scholar at a news conference today at the State Capitol. Bellido, who will receive $500,000 from the ARA to further her research, was presented with a certificate by Gov. Asa Hutchinson and UAMS Chancellor Cam Patterson, M.D.,…
Parking at War Memorial Stadium will be affected Friday, Dec. 6, and Friday, Dec. 13, for AAA High School Championships.
Applications are now being accepted for the 2020 UAMS Leadership Institute.
UAMS will be hosting TEDxUAMS on February 7, 2020. Ten speakers have been selected to give presentations that day.
Have a festive holiday sweater? Send us a photo of you in your favorite festive holiday sweater by Dec. 15 to enter Get Healthy UAMS’ Holiday Sweater Contest.
Kristine Patterson, M.D., an infectious disease specialist and well-known expert on HIV in women, has joined the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS). Patterson is an associate professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, UAMS College of Medicine. She sees patients through UAMS’ Infectious Diseases Clinic. She earned her medical…