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Health care students participate in a panel discussion

UAMS Hosts Pre-Health Conference for Aspiring Health Care Professionals

Undergraduate students from across Arkansas recently gathered at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) central campus for the annual Undergraduate Pre-Health Conference. The event provided current college students with a comprehensive introduction to careers in health care and featured representatives from all five UAMS colleges — Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, Public Health, Health Professions…

Stefanie Kennon-McGill presenting at UAMS Showcase for Medical Discoveries 2025

UAMS Showcase for Medical Discoveries Focuses on Digital Health, Collaboration

Amidst the digital health initiatives on display during the latest research showcase at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) was the opportunity for good, old-fashioned collaboration. Approximately 40 people attended the UAMS Showcase of Medical Discoveries, held April 9 on the 10th floor of the UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute in Little…

Members of the UAMS Institute for Community Health Innovation with computer laptops outside the mobile unit.

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…

Christine Yu Moutier, M.D., (left) relates her experiences with suicide intervention in a candid conversation with Laura Dunn, M.D., director of the UAMS Psychiatric Research Institute.

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.

Jay Hinkle, M.D., as program director, and Margaret Tremwel, M.D., Ph.D., as associate program director

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…

Chandra Hicks

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…

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.

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.

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