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December 12, 2025

Two UAMS Employees Elected to Lead Governor’s Advisory Council on Aging

Chris Carmody

Brian Jones, vice chancellor for UAMS Regional Campuses, and AmyLeigh Overton-McCoy, director of the UAMS Centers on Aging, were elected to serve as leaders of the Governor’s Advisory Council on Aging in 2026.

Brian Jones, DHSc, vice chancellor for Regional Campuses at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), and AmyLeigh Overton-McCoy, Ph.D., APRN, director of the UAMS Centers on Aging, recently were elected to one-year terms as leaders of the Governor’s Advisory Council on Aging.


December 10, 2025

UAMS to Train 75 Community Health Workers with Support from Arkansas Office of Skills Development

David Wise

An instructor at a DEEP Training Workshop takes notes on a whiteboard.

LITTLE ROCK — The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Institute for Community Health Innovation will work with partners to continue building the community health worker (CHW) workforce across the state after receiving $375,000 in support from the Arkansas Office of Skills Development Training Grant Program. The Office of Skills Development (OSD), an office…


December 2, 2025

Getting Your Flu Shot Matters

David Wise

A teenage girl receives the HPV vaccine.

By Sheldon Riklon, M.D.

Every year, many people in the United States get sick with the flu.


December 1, 2025

Translational Research Institute Hosts Mixed Methods Research Workshop

Kev' Moye

Taking notes

The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Translational Research Institute recently hosted an interactive workshop, “Complementary by Design: A Mixed Methods Workshop to Optimize Your Research,” designed to improve a researcher’s ability to use mixed methods.


November 26, 2025

Deanna Cochran, M.D., Joins UAMS’ Thomas and Lyon Longevity Clinic

Chris Carmody

Deanna Cochran, M.D., is accepting patients at the Thomas and Lyon Longevity Clinic in Little Rock.

The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) has welcomed Deanna Cochran, M.D., as a new physician at the Thomas and Lyon Longevity Clinic in the UAMS Donald W. Reynolds Institute on Aging.


November 25, 2025

UAMS Hosts Lecture on Warning Signs of Dementia

Chris Carmody

Courtney Ghormley, geropsychologist at the Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System, gave a presentation about the warning signs of dementia.

The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) recently hosted a virtual lecture that focused on the warning signs of dementia and offered suggestions on the next steps for people who recognize those symptoms in themselves or others.


November 24, 2025

UAMS Receives $1.5 Million NCI Grant to Train Next Generation of Cancer Innovators

Marty Trieschmann

UAMS Receives $1.5 Million NCI Grant to Train Next Generation of Cancer Innovators

UAMS has received a $1.5 million National Cancer Institute grant to launch CADET, a new graduate-level certificate program that trains scientists to commercialize cancer-related technologies.


November 19, 2025

UAMS Cancer Institute Director Michael J. Birrer, M.D., Ph.D. Inducted into American Academy of Sciences and Letters

Marty Trieschmann

UAMS Cancer Institute Director Michael J. Birrer, M.D., Ph.D. Inducted into American Academy of Sciences and Letters

Michael J. Birrer, director of the Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute at UAMS, was invested as a member of the American Academy of Arts & Letters Nov. 12. The honor recognizes his decades of scientific leadership and pioneering work in gynecologic oncology.


November 13, 2025

UAMS Study Finds Digital Barriers May Limit Rural Cancer Survivors from Participating in Research

David Wise

senior Hispanic couple walking and holding hands on sidewalk

LITTLE ROCK — Limited access to digital resources may be one reason why rural cancer survivors are underrepresented in cancer research, according to researchers at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Institute for Community Health Innovation. Researchers found that rural cancer survivors were willing to participate in cancer research studies. However, factors such…


November 12, 2025

UAMS Brain Injury Program Trains Law Enforcement on Recognizing, Responding to Brain Injuries

Benjamin Waldrum

IDHI Brain Injury Program team Campbell Dawson Bercher Beck

Over the past year, the UAMS Institute for Digital Health & Innovation’s Brain Injury Program has begun a major initiative to help law enforcement better recognize and respond to people with traumatic brain injury (TBI), aiming to promote safer encounters and deescalate incidents. Already the program has trained hundreds of officers and continues to gain…



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