Institute for Digital Health & Innovation


November 14, 2024

UAMS Brain Injury Program to Offer Free Virtual Workshop Nov. 21

News Staff

The UAMS Institute for Digital Health and Innovation’s Brain Injury Program will host a virtual workshop on Nov. 21 to connect anyone affected by a traumatic brain injury (TBI) to helpful resources and support.

LITTLE ROCK — The UAMS Institute for Digital Health and Innovation’s Brain Injury Program will host a virtual workshop on Nov. 21 to connect anyone affected by a traumatic brain injury (TBI) to helpful resources and support.


October 11, 2024

UAMS Adult Sickle Cell Program Celebrates 10th Anniversary at Annual Symposium

Benjamin Waldrum

Sickle Cell patient panel 2024

The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Adult Sickle Cell Program celebrated a decade of providing care for patients across Arkansas during its annual symposium. Speakers at the event, which included several patients, reflected on the past while looking with hope toward the future. The Sept. 19 event was held on the 12th floor…


September 17, 2024

UAMS Study to Address Maternal, Infant Deaths with $2.4 Million Federal Grant

David Robinson

UAMS' Stefanie Kennon-McGill, Ph.D., is leading the four-year study, which she hopes will deliver sustainable solutions to high maternal and infant death rates in the Delta. Arkansas has the highest maternal death rate in the U.S., and pregnant Black women die at nearly twice the rate as pregnant white women.

LITTLE ROCK — The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) will receive up to $2.4 million over the next four years to test prevention strategies for reducing high rates of maternal and infant deaths in the Arkansas Delta. The grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) will fund a combination…


August 8, 2024

UAMS Brain Injury Program to Offer Free Virtual Workshop Aug. 15

News Staff

The UAMS Institute for Digital Health and Innovation’s Brain Injury Program will host a virtual workshop on Aug. 15 to connect anyone affected by a traumatic brain injury (TBI) to helpful resources and support.

LITTLE ROCK — The UAMS Institute for Digital Health and Innovation’s Brain Injury Program will host a virtual workshop on Aug. 15 to connect anyone affected by a traumatic brain injury (TBI) to helpful resources and support.


May 7, 2024

Challenges, Opportunities Discussed at UAMS Perinatal Health Workshop

Benjamin Waldrum

Weeks and Pennington baby escape room

More than 96 front-line caregivers from hospitals across Arkansas came together in Little Rock to attend an April 24 workshop aimed at improving perinatal care. An additional 24 participants tuned in to the workshop virtually. The all-day workshop, held on the second floor of the I. Dodd Wilson Education Building on the UAMS Little Rock…


April 12, 2024

UAMS Hosts POWER Workshop for Perinatal Health on April 24

Benjamin Waldrum

Shot of a mother to be caressing her baby bump

LITTLE ROCK — The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) and the Arkansas Perinatal Quality Collaborative (ARPQC) will hold an all-day perinatal quality improvement workshop April 24 in Little Rock. This workshop is organized in partnership with the Perinatal Outcomes Workgroup Through Education and Research (POWER), a part of the High-Risk Pregnancy Program at…


March 15, 2024

Annual Brain Injury Conference Focuses on Support, Education for Survivors

Benjamin Waldrum

Brain Injury Conference Wellness Panel

More than 60 people attended this year’s 2024 Arkansas Brain Injury Survivors’ Conference on March 1, gathering in person for the first time since 2019. The annual conference, held this year at the University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture Cooperative Extension Service State Office in Little Rock, is the only event of its kind in…


February 22, 2024

UAMS to Hold Arkansas Brain Injury Survivors’ Conference on March 1

Benjamin Waldrum

The first in-person conference since 2019, this year’s event is at the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture Cooperative Extension Service State Office, located at 2301 S. University Ave., in Little Rock.

LITTLE ROCK — The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Institute for Digital Health & Innovation Brain Injury Program will hold the 2024 Arkansas Brain Injury Survivors’ Conference: Total Wellness from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Friday, March 1. The first in-person conference since 2019, this year’s event is at the University of Arkansas…


November 8, 2023

UAMS Receives $1 Million Department of Justice Grant to Help Reduce Violent Crime in Pine Bluff Schools

Benjamin Waldrum

Stanley Ellis, Ed.D.

LITTLE ROCK — The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences’ (UAMS) Institute for Digital Health & Innovation has received a three-year, $1 million grant from the U.S. Department of Justice to help reduce violent crime in and around Pine Bluff schools. The project, School Telemedicine in Arkansas for Lessons in Trauma-informed Education (STARLITE), aims to…


November 7, 2023

UAMS Brain Injury Program to Offer Free Virtual Workshop Nov. 16

Yavonda Chase

The UAMS Institute for Digital Health and Innovation’s Brain Injury Program is hosting a virtual workshop on Nov. 16 to connect anyone affected by a traumatic brain injury (TBI) to helpful resources and support.

LITTLE ROCK — The UAMS Institute for Digital Health and Innovation’s Brain Injury Program will host a virtual workshop on Nov. 16 to connect anyone affected by a traumatic brain injury (TBI) to helpful resources and support.



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