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Kidney Awareness: Protecting Your Health from the Inside Out

    By Sheldon Riklon, M.D. Your kidneys are small, but powerful organs that work around the clock to keep your body functioning properly. Because kidney disease often develops without noticeable symptoms, it’s easy to overlook kidney health. That’s why making kidney screening part of your regular health checkups is so important. The Importance of…

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UAMS Digital Health Expertise Helps Expand High-Risk Obstetric Care in Louisiana

When Woman’s Hospital in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, needed a digital solution to improve maternal-fetal medicine care in their clinics, they turned to their neighbors in Arkansas for help. Now, thanks to a partnership with the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences’ (UAMS) Institute for Digital Health & Innovation, things are running more smoothly than ever….

Health care worker meeting with a pregnant woman in the hospital.

UAMS Offering Scholarships for Perinatal Mental Health Certification

LITTLE ROCK — The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Institute for Community Health Innovation is offering a limited number of scholarships to maternal health care workers seeking to become certified in perinatal mental health. The scholarships are open to qualified applicants with two years of experience working with moms or babies in a…

James Rutka, M.D., Ph.D., poses after his lecture with the first Yasargil Lecture Series plaque, given to him by Deanna Sasaki-Adams, M.D., chair of the UAMS Department of Neurosurgery, left, and neurosurgeon T. Glenn Pait, M.D., director of the T. Glenn Pait Spine Clinic at UAMS.

Toronto Neurosurgeon Shares Insights into Brain Cancer Survival in Children

A renowned pediatric neurosurgeon from Canada recently took the stage in the Jackson T. Stephens Neurosciences & Spine Institute’s Fred W. Smith Auditorium to discuss work at a Toronto brain tumor center that has improved the survival of children with brain cancer. James T. Rutka, M.D., Ph.D., who practices at The Hospital for Sick Children…

Ulrike White

Former Myeloma Center Patient Returns to UAMS to Mark 20 Years Since Diagnosis

Ulrike White recently returned to the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute to mark 20 years of her diagnosis and treatment of granulocytic sarcoma and acute myeloid leukemia (AML), a rare form of blood cancer that, at the time of her diagnosis, was not well understood. White, former chair…

Craig Gilliam holds the 2026 Distinguished Alumnus Award.

Call for Nominations: Distinguished Alumnus Award

The UAMS College of Health Professions is now accepting nominations for the Distinguished Alumnus Award, which recognizes CHP graduates who have achieved extraordinary distinction in their careers and made meaningful contributions to their profession, community, and/or the College.

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