UAMS News


May 1, 2024

The Neck

Tim Taylor

neck

These programs were first broadcast the week of May 6, 2024


April 26, 2024

2024 Career Fair Connects Pharmacy Students with 16 Community Employers

Benjamin Waldrum

COP Career Day 2024

UAMS College of Pharmacy students from the Class of 2024 participated in the college’s annual Career Fair on March 29, learning more about opportunities available to them after graduation. The event, held at the Myers Student Pavilion at Pulaski Academy in Little Rock, allows current pharmacy students the chance to network with other members of…


April 16, 2024

Nine UAMS Physicians Named Healthcare Research All-Stars

Linda Satter

a composite of portraits of Barnes, Stambough, Stronach, Inamdar, Al'Aref and Giorgakis.

 LITTLE ROCK — Nine current and former physicians at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) have been named Healthcare Research All-Stars for 2024 by Avant-garde Health. Additionally, it placed the UAMS Hip and Knee surgery team among the top 1% of hip and knee surgeons nationwide, the orthopaedic surgery team among the top…


March 26, 2024

UAMS Awarded $11.48 Million Federal Grant to Establish Center for Molecular Interactions in Cancer

Marty Trieschmann

Dr. Robert Eoff

The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute received a five-year, $11.48 million federal grant to create the Center for Molecular Interactions in Cancer (CMIC). The grant was awarded by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) Centers of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE) program. COBRE grants are awarded to…


March 25, 2024

Manojna Konda, M.D., and Vivek Yadala, M.D., Join UAMS Baptist Health Cancer Network

Marty Trieschmann

Two UAMS doctors in white coats

Oncologists Manojna Konda, M.D., and Vivek Yadala, M.D., have joined the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) to support the expansion of UAMS cancer services to Baptist Health locations. Konda is a medical oncologist treating patients at the UAMS Baptist Health Cancer Center at Baptist Health Medical Center in Little Rock. She is a…


December 19, 2023

Labor & Delivery Nurse Reva Martin Honored with Willow Award

Ben Boulden

Reva Martin, center, holds the Willow Award presented to her moments before by Jeff Smith, left, Jodie McGinley. Dylan and Skye Billingsley, left, nominated her for the award. Courtesy of Jodie McGinley.

After losing two babies in two years, Dylan and Skye Billingsley returned to UAMS on Dec. 6 to surprise and thank the nurse who helped them to emotionally survive those experiences.


December 5, 2023

UAMS Researcher Receives $1.8 Million NIH Grant to Study Key Cell Processes in Energy Production

David Robinson

Huiliang Zhang, Ph.D., in his lab at UAMS.

LITTLE ROCK — Huiliang Zhang, Ph.D., at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), will use a $1.8 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to study proton leak, a process within the body that affects metabolism and energy. Although scientists have been aware of proton leak for decades, Zhang said, little…


September 27, 2023

UAMS, Arkansas Children’s, Baptist Health and Proton International Open State’s First Proton Center

Marty Trieschmann

people ringing bells

The Proton Center of Arkansas opened today at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), becoming the first proton therapy center in Arkansas and only the 43rd in the nation to provide the most advanced cancer radiation treatment in the world. Proton therapy is a cutting-edge form of radiation that uses positively charged proton…


September 8, 2023

‘Everything Got Better,’ after Coming to UAMS, says Leukemia Lymphoma Patient

Marty Trieschmann

a large family posing for a photo on the beach

By the time Thomas Wages arrived at UAMS on February 15, 2022, he had been through one cancer diagnosis and 13 types of intensive chemotherapy. He was 70. The active father of four was diagnosed with Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL) in 2008, devastating news that came during one of the happiest times of his life….


September 1, 2023

UAMS College of Pharmacy Class of 2027 Receives White Coats

Benjamin Waldrum

Atasia Thomas

The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences’ (UAMS) College of Pharmacy Class of 2027 received their white coats in a ceremony Aug. 25, marking their transition into pharmacy school. The ceremony, held at Connor Performing Arts Center at Pulaski Academy in Little Rock, is the first of three milestone events on the students’ path to…



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