Nov. 10, 2016 | For more than a decade, Chester Palmer’s doctor kept close watch on the aneurysm in his aorta. An aneurysm is an enlargement or ballooning of a blood vessel. Palmer’s was in the aorta, the main blood vessel in the body that extends from the heart through the abdomen and into the…
Nov. 3, 2016 | For the first time in nine years, Sangeetha Anand can breathe easy. And she’s giving all the credit to Jennings Boyette, M.D., assistant professor of facial plastic and reconstructive surgery in the UAMS College of Medicine. Boyette was able to successfully diagnose and correct what had become a years-long battle for…
Oct. 27, 2016 | Sean Murray of Kimberling City, Missouri, was working a stressful job in November 2008. His project list was long and deadlines were coming due. So, yes, he noticed the pain in the upper middle part of his back. But the 49-year-old figured it was a pinched nerve or a pulled muscle…
Oct. 25, 2016 | Pebbles Fagan, Ph.D., M.P.H., has been named director of the Center for the Study of Tobacco at the Fay W. Boozman College of Public Health at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS). Fagan also will serve as a professor in the Department of Health Behavior and Health Education in the…
Oct. 20, 2016 | When Don Marshall, 58, was diagnosed with prostate cancer, he wanted to make sure he received the best possible care. He was considering traveling to California for treatment until he realized there was a state-of-the-art facility in his own backyard. One year ago, Marshall went to a routine physical examination for…
LITTLE ROCK — Peter Emanuel, M.D., director of the Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), has been appointed to the board of directors of the Association of American Cancer Institutes (AACI). Emanuel will serve a two-year term after being appointed to fill a vacated seat on the…
Oct. 14, 2016 | Lana Dunn’s 21-year military career has given her the skills to face just about any challenge. Little did she know, those skills would be put to the ultimate test three years ago after finding a lump in her breast. “I was drying off after a shower and accidentally felt it,” she…
OCT. 10, 2016 | Seated in the atrium at the UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute, Sid Davis heard for the first time what patients and visitors have enjoyed for six years: the uplifting sounds of the institute’s Steinway piano.
Oct. 6, 2016 | A glamorous bygone era briefly reappeared in Little Rock on Sept. 30 when the UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute hosted its 21st annual Gala for Life. The black-tie fundraiser raised more than $1.2 million and treated about 800 guests to the opulence of 1960’s Las Vegas, complete with showgirls, themed…
LITTLE ROCK — Fellowship-trained medical oncologist Angela Pennisi, M.D., Ph.D., has joined the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS). She sees patients in the UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute and is an assistant professor in the UAMS Division of Medical Oncology. Pennisi earned her medical degree and doctoral degree in experimental hematology from…