Institute for Digital Health & Innovation
March 7, 2019
UAMS-Led Stroke Program Helps Lower Arkansas to Seventh in Stroke Deaths among All States
![Renee Joiner, AR SAVES director, right, Sanjeeva Reddy Onteddu, M.D., AR SAVES medical director, and Ken Kelly, CEO of ProMed ambulance company in El Dorado, stand in October in front of Medical Center of South Arkansas, an AR SAVES network site.](https://news.uams.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/ARSAVES-El-Dorado-horizontal-150x150.jpg)
Arkansas recently fell from sixth to seventh place in the nation in the number of stroke deaths per capita, a huge improvement that health officials credit in part to a statewide telemedicine program of stroke education and treatment led by the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS). Only four years ago, Arkansas still was…
February 21, 2019
UAMS Establishes Institute for Digital Health & Innovation; Curtis Lowery, M.D., Named Director
![Curtis Lowery, M.D., will lead the new UAMS Institute for Digital Health & Innovation.](https://news.uams.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Lowery-Institute4DigitalHealth-featured-150x150.jpg)
The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) has established the Institute for Digital Health & Innovation, and named Curtis Lowery, M.D., as its director.
January 31, 2019
UAMS-Led Arkansas Stroke Program Named National Hearst Health Prize Finalist
![Curtis Lowery, M.D., left, pauses during a live video conference. Lowery founded the AR SAVES program, which has been named one of three national finalists for the Hearst Health Prize.](https://news.uams.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Lowery-Hearst-featured-150x150.jpg)
The Arkansas SAVES telemedicine stroke program, led by the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), has been named one of three national finalists for the 2019 Hearst Health Prize for Excellence in Population Health.
January 28, 2019
Oklahoman Glad He Was in Arkansas When He Had Rare Stroke
![Donny Koger, left, has his blood pressure checked by Olivia Bayne, RN, during a visit to Mena Regional Health System hospital](https://news.uams.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Koger-featured-150x150.jpg)
Being far from home but in the Arkansas SAVES network may have saved Donny Koger’s life.
A resident of Oklahoma City, Koger was in a wilderness area of Polk County on the western border of Arkansas late in the evening of March 16 when he suddenly found he was unable to speak and was paralyzed from the neck down.
May 18, 2016
Mega Brain Debuts at Strike Out Stroke Nights
![Mega Brain Debuts at Strike Out Stroke Nights](https://news.uams.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/SOS-NLR-Mega-Brain-front-150x150.jpg)
May 18, 2016 | The 5-year-old boy’s eyes were wide with wonder outside busy Dickey-Stephens Park in North Little Rock as he spied not his baseball hero but the giant, inflatable Mega Brain. Mega Brain was there May 5 for Strike Out Stroke night, an event to raise public awareness about stroke that is organized…
May 12, 2016
Stroke Program Helps Lower Arkansas to Sixth from First in Stroke Deaths
![Stroke Program Helps Lower Arkansas to Sixth from First in Stroke Deaths](https://news.uams.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/SAVES-Shelton-Ramona-Hill-150x150.jpg)
May 12, 2016 | Arkansas recently fell to sixth in the nation in the number of stroke deaths per capita after many years in first place, a huge improvement that health officials credit in part to a statewide telemedicine program of stroke education and treatment. The program — Arkansas Stroke Assistance through Virtual Emergency Support, or…
March 17, 2016
Northwest Arkansas Naturals to Host ‘Strike Out Stroke Night’
LITTLE ROCK — To help Arkansans learn how to survive stroke, the Northwest Arkansas Naturals baseball team is making its April 7 opening game of the 2016 season “Strike Out Stroke Night” in partnership with the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS)-led statewide stroke program, AR SAVES. A helicopter will bring Washington Regional Medical…
August 17, 2015
Mega Brain Draws Crowds for Stroke Education
![Mega Brain Draws Crowds for Stroke Education](https://news.uams.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/MegaBrain1-150x150.jpg)
Aug. 17, 2015 | The best way to reach people’s minds might just be with a brain — a 18-by-14-by-12-foot, inflatable Mega Brain.
May 19, 2015
Survivors Throw Strikes Against Stroke
![Survivors Throw Strikes Against Stroke](https://news.uams.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Strike-Out-Stroke-2015-NLR-4-in1-150x150.jpg)
May 19, 2015 | FAST-acting medical attention culminated in some fast balls thrown from the pitcher’s mound by stroke survivors at Strike Out Stroke Night events in Dickey-Stephens Park in North Little Rock and Arvest Park in Springdale.
April 27, 2015
Arkansas Travelers to Host ‘Strike Out Stroke Night’ May 14
LITTLE ROCK — To help Arkansans learn how to survive stroke, the Arkansas Travelers are making May 14 “Strike Out Stroke Night” in partnership with AR SAVES, the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS)-led statewide stroke program.
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