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November 7, 2022
UAMS Assisting Pulaski County Sheriff’s Office in Care of Detainees with Substance Use Disorder

Several University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) researchers are working with the Pulaski County Sheriff’s Office to reduce the use of opioids among its incarcerated population.
November 2, 2022
UAMS Partnership Receives Two Awards to Address Suicide, Food Insecurity among Older Adults

LITTLE ROCK — A University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) partnership involving the Donald W. Reynolds Institute on Aging, Centers on Aging, College of Nursing and the Arkansas Hartford Center of Geriatric Nursing Excellence has received a total of $550,000 in awards for programs that address food insecurity and suicide among older adults. The…
November 1, 2022
UAMS to Offer Free Traumatic Brain Injury Workshop Nov. 10

LITTLE ROCK — The UAMS Institute for Digital Health and Innovation’s TBI Team will host a virtual “Traumatic Brain Injury Resource Workshop” on Nov. 10 to connect anyone affected by a TBI to helpful resources and support.
October 27, 2022
Four UAMS Researchers Receive Arkansas Breast Cancer Research 25th Anniversary Grants

The Arkansas Breast Cancer Research Program is celebrating its 25th year of funding breakthrough research by Arkansas scientists studying breast cancer. Since the program’s inception in 1997 with the passage of The Arkansas Breast Cancer Act, the annual grants program has awarded nearly $10 million in direct research support. UAMS administers the program. “Twenty-five years…
October 26, 2022
UAMS Jones Eye Institute Ophthalmology Residency Program Ranked 13th Nationally for Research Output

The Doximity online networking service recently ranked the UAMS Harvey & Bernice Jones Eye Institute’s ophthalmology residency program 13th nationally among 124 programs in research output. The institute, which has 16 residency slots, ranked ahead of several larger ophthalmology programs, which can have up to double the number of residents. Doximity rankings, which included 124…
October 21, 2022
UAMS Neurosurgeon Uses Brain-Mapping Software, Laser Ablation to Safely Destroy Mom’s Brain Tumor

| Just three months after giving birth to her daughter, Ashley James learned that a brain tumor she’d had removed nearly two years earlier had returned. Back in October 2020 during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Pine Bluff native was living in Cleveland, Ohio, when she experienced a severe headache and pain behind…
October 20, 2022
Cyclotron for State’s First Proton Center Arrives at UAMS

Completion of a $65 million expanded University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Radiation Oncology Center that will house Arkansas’ first Proton Center marked an important milestone Oct. 20 with the arrival and installation of the Proton Center’s cyclotron, a type of particle accelerator that serves as a key piece of equipment. “UAMS is proud…
October 18, 2022
UAMS’ Harvey & Bernice Jones Eye Institute Seeks Participants for National, Multicenter Clinical Trial for Zoster Eye Disease

LITTLE ROCK — The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences’ (UAMS) Harvey & Bernice Jones Eye Institute seeks participants for a national, multicenter clinical trial concerning the varicella-zoster virus, also known as zoster eye disease or shingles of the eye. The Zoster Eye Disease Study has received $15 million in funding from the National Eye…
October 13, 2022
NIH Funds UAMS Effort to Close Patient Outcome Gaps Across U.S. Level 1 and 2 Trauma Centers

LITTLE ROCK — University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) researchers are hoping to help close wide gaps in trauma patient outcomes across the United States by harnessing new data to help trauma center leaders improve outcomes. Led by Mathias Brochhausen, Ph.D., and Kevin Sexton, M.D., the researchers will test which organizational features affect patient…
October 12, 2022
UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute Welcomes Four New Oncologists

The addition of four new oncologists will expand services and increase access for patients at the Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) and its growing network of clinics at Baptist Health locations. “This is our next phase in hematology/oncology expansion as we progress toward NCI designation,” said…
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