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October 12, 2020
Ahmed A. Sallam, M.D., Ph.D., Invested in John W. Nutt Chair in Ophthalmology
Ahmed A. Sallam, M.D., Ph.D., a renowned eye inflammation and retinal specialist at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Harvey & Bernice Jones Eye Institute, has been invested with the John W. Nutt Chair in Ophthalmology. Sallam is director of the uveitis service, associate professor of ophthalmology, and director of the ophthalmology residency…
October 9, 2020
21st Geriatrics Update Focuses on ‘Living Long, Living Strong’
The foods older adults eat can be just as, or even more, vital to their heart health as the cardiovascular medications they take and the surgeries and procedures they may undergo. That’s the message keynote speaker, Joel Kahn, M.D., gave at the 21st annual Geriatrics Update and Long-term Care Conference held Oct. 1-3 at the…
Consulate of Mexico Honors UAMS MammoVan
In recognition of UAMS’ longtime support of the Hispanic and Mexican communities, Rodolfo Quilantan Arenas, consul of the Consulate of Mexico in Little Rock, honored the UAMS Mobile Mammography team in an outdoor ceremony Oct. 6 at the UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute.
October 7, 2020
Exercise Program Helps Slow Parkinson’s Symptoms
In a spacious room on the bottom floor of the Donald W. Reynold’s Institute on Aging, fitness instructor Kellie Coleman stands in front of a camera. She begins leading about a dozen people through an hour-long exercise class for patients living with Parkinson’s disease (PD). “Next, get on the edge of your chair, rotate your…
October 6, 2020
Jones Eye Videos Teach while Sharing Learning
Making, watching and posting videos on the internet may sound like the farthest thing from work. But for Riley Sanders, M.D., a vitreoretinal surgery fellow at the UAMS Harvey & Bernice Jones Eye Institute, making internet videos is helping advance the field of ophthalmology. Sanders has recently had almost a dozen videos he has made…
October 5, 2020
Scarless Hysterectomy Gives Sherwood Woman Peace of Mind
Lee Butler loves to garden. Her family and her neighbors all enjoy the abundant foliage of hosta plants and ferns as well as the blooms on the rose and azalea bushes surrounding her Sherwood home. “People ask me how I have time to make them all so beautiful. I tell them, “It didn’t start out…
October 2, 2020
‘Geriatric Buddy’ Program Hopes to End Isolation of Older Adults
UAMS geriatrician Priya Mendiratta, M.D., wants to brighten the lives of older adults who are isolated at home during the COVID-19 pandemic. She and some students have an idea for how to do that. “In the nursing home, for the first one or two months of the pandemic when we didn’t go in, I noticed…
October 1, 2020
Ophthalmology Residents Stay Active Despite COVID Restrictions
The early days of the COVID-19 pandemic closed most everything, including doctor’s offices, giving many people free time to learn new skills. Internet videos on making sourdough bread raked in viewers. But the residents in training at the Harvey & Bernice Jones Eye Institute, though unable to see patients, spent their time online learning skills…
September 21, 2020
Retired UAMS HR Chief Shares Myeloma Journey through Blog
Hosea Long of Little Rock recently turned 70, a milestone that for most may seem unremarkable. After all, it was not the former UAMS employee’s 100th, 90th or even his 80th birthday. But it was inspiring and incredible for him and his loved ones. Long explained why in a recent entry titled “Tomorrow starts a…
September 18, 2020
UAMS, Baptist Health, Arkansas Children’s Working Together To Expand Cancer Treatment in Arkansas
The University of Arkansas Board of Trustees today approved joint ventures between the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), Baptist Health and Arkansas Children’s to expand access to radiation therapy as well as to establish the state’s first proton therapy center.
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