Medical News
UAMS Mobile Health Units Now Feature Internet Access
LITTLE ROCK — The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Institute for Community Health Innovation is expanding health care access with Arkansas’ first-ever statewide mobile health connectivity project, which equips each mobile unit with wireless network access using SD-WAN technology to enhance reliability, security and performance in remote rural areas. With all four mobile…
Suicide Prevention Update Addresses Growing Concern
As chief medical officer of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, Christine Yu Moutier, M.D., hears countless stories of desperation and pain every day from those who have lost loved ones as a result of a self-inflicted death.
UAMS, Washington Regional Approved for Residency Programs in Neurology, Emergency Medicine in Northwest Arkansas
FAYETTEVILLE — The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) and Washington Regional Medical Center have received initial accreditation from the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) to establish a neurology residency program and an emergency medicine residency program in Northwest Arkansas through their joint graduate medical education program. These are the first non-primary…
UAMS Adds Tobacco Cessation Specialist at Family Medical Center in El Dorado
Community members in south Arkansas looking to quit tobacco now have a new resource at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS). Chandra Hicks has joined UAMS as a tobacco cessation specialist, seeing patients at the UAMS Health Family Medical Center in El Dorado. A certified tobacco cessation specialist, Hicks provides individual and group…
UAMS, CDC Find 3% of Arkansas 8-Year-Olds, 2.5% of 4-Year-Olds Diagnosed with Autism
LITTLE ROCK — One in 34 (3.0%) of 8-year-old children in Arkansas were identified with autism spectrum disorder by the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences’ (UAMS) Arkansas Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring (AR ADDM) program in 2022, according to an analysis published April 15 in the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) Surveillance Summaries.
UAMS Names Sanjaya Viswamitra, M.D., as Chair of Department of Radiology
LITTLE ROCK — The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) College of Medicine has named Sanjaya Viswamitra, M.D., as chair of the Department of Radiology.
Pharmacy Students Recognized Nationally at APhA Annual Meeting
At this year’s American Pharmacists Association (APhA) annual meeting, the UAMS College of Pharmacy’s Academy of Student Pharmacists (ASP) chapter was named national runner-up in its division, and third-year student Hayden Wood was elected ASP speaker of the house. The college’s ASP student chapter has been named runner-up or division winner multiple times over the…
MVP for April — Betty Proffitt
Meet Betty Proffitt, the MVP for April. Betty serves UAMS as a respiratory NICU coordinator. In the course of her work, she puts into practice the UAMS culture of being polite, friendly, respectful, thoughtful, optimistic and compassionate.
UAMS Invests Corey J. Hayes, Pharm.D., Ph.D., MPH, in Office of Alcohol and Drug Abuse Prevention Professorship
LITTLE ROCK — The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) College of Pharmacy invested Corey J. Hayes, Pharm.D., Ph.D., MPH, a tenured associate professor in the UAMS Department of Pharmacy Practice, in the Office of Alcohol and Drug Abuse Prevention Professorship during an April 9 ceremony. “As I look across this room, I am…