UAMS News


October 8, 2013

UAMS Awarded $8.7 Million for Radiation Research

Ben Boulden

LITTLE ROCK – The Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) has exercised two contract options worth approximately $8.7 million with the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) to proceed with advanced development of a promising treatment for use in radiological or nuclear emergency situations.


October 4, 2013

Public Health Researcher Receives Prestigious Award

Liz Caldwell

Alison Harrill, Ph.D., a new faculty member in the UAMS Fay W. Boozman College of Public Health’s Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, arrived on campus last month with the news that she is one of five nationwide recipients of a five-year, $500,000 Burroughs Wellcome Fund Innovation in Regulatory Science Award.


October 3, 2013

UAMS Project SEARCH Draws Praise from Governor

Nate Hinkel

Oct. 3, 2013 | Working in patient transport at UAMS Medical Center is “a blast” because he gets to help people, said Andrew Aston, an intern in the new UAMS Project SEARCH program that drew praise from Gov. Mike Beebe and others at an Oct. 1 event.


October 2, 2013

Pooja Motwani, M.D., Joins UAMS Division of Hematology/Oncology

Nate Hinkel

LITTLE ROCK – Fellowship-trained hematologist and oncologist Pooja Motwani, M.D., has joined the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS). She is an assistant professor of medicine in the UAMS Division of Hematology/Oncology and sees patients in the seventh floor clinics at the UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute.


October 1, 2013

Grad School Students Celebrate Ph.D. Milestone

Liz Caldwell

After years of sitting in a classroom and countless hours of studying for exams, 32 graduate students celebrated the next step in earning their doctorate degrees.


Gov. Beebe Cheers Young Adults Gaining Work Experience in UAMS Project SEARCH

Nate Hinkel

LITTLE ROCK – A yearlong internship program for young adults with developmental disabilities is providing on-the-job training while helping the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) serve its patients, employees, students and guests.


September 30, 2013

UAMS Opens Schmieding Caregiver Training Site in El Dorado

Nate Hinkel

LITTLE ROCK — The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Donald W. Reynolds Institute on Aging today celebrated the opening of the Schmieding Home Caregiver Training Program in El Dorado, providing new opportunities for the elderly to stay in their homes as they age.


September 27, 2013

Workshop Exposes Students to Suturing Experience

Ben Boulden

Sept. 27, 2013 | First- and second-year UAMS medical students took a key step toward becoming cool and confident third- and fourth-year students in future operating room clinical rotations during a Sept. 9 suturing workshop.


September 26, 2013

Health Literacy Expert Encourages Better Patient Engagement

Holland Doran

Eighty million Americans lack sufficient education in health care and disease prevention, a fact that is affecting hospital readmissions statistics, patient-doctor engagement and patient mortality rates, said Laura Noonan, M.D., a health literacy expert who visited UAMS last week.


UAMS, Grateful Patients Honor Wendel with Endowed Chair in Maternal-Fetal Medicine

Liz Caldwell

Seven women set out to honor the UAMS doctor who gave their children the gift of life. Six years later, with gifts from more than 1,500 current and former patients and family members, this idea became a reality.



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