UAMS News
September 5, 2013
Junior UAMS Researchers Win Funding for Asthma, Cardiovascular Studies
Sept. 5, 2013 | UAMS researchers Joshua Kennedy, M.D., and Elvin Price, Pharm.D., Ph.D., are the newest recipients of the Translational Research Institute KL2 Scholar Career Development Awards, which will provide them with salary and research support for two years.
September 4, 2013
‘Distinguished Alumnus’ Honored by College of Medicine
Sept. 4, 2013 | The UAMS College of Medicine presented its 2013 Dean’s Distinguished Alumnus Award to retired U.S. Army Col. John Holcomb, M.D., a 1985 graduate who earned wide acclaim during his 23-year career in the military for substantially advancing trauma care for those wounded in battle.
Makhoul Named Director of UAMS Division of Hematology/Oncology
LITTLE ROCK – Issam Makhoul, M.D., has been named director of the Division of Hematology/Oncology in the UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute. He will serve as the inaugural holder of the Laura F. Hutchins, M.D. Distinguished Chair for the Division of Hematology/Oncology.
August 30, 2013
UAMS Researchers Land $2 Million NIH Grant to Study Golgi Apparatus
Aug. 30, 2013 | A pair of UAMS College of Medicine researchers recently received a five-year, nearly $2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop super-resolution holography methods to study the Golgi apparatus and defects that have been associated with conditions such as glaucoma, chlamydia infection, neurodegenerative disease, viral entry and aging.
August 29, 2013
UAMS/Schmieding Names Christensen as Project Director
LITTLE ROCK — Margaret Christensen has joined the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Schmieding Center for Health and Education in Springdale as project director for the $3.5 million Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Health Care Innovation Challenge Award.
Online Contest Leads Pro Golfer to Donate $50,000 to UAMS
It takes determination to sink birdies as a pro golfer, and Arkadelphia native Ken Duke has proven that throughout his entire career. Twenty four years later, Duke gave back to the place where he found healing by donating his prize money to UAMS’ Jackson T. Stephens Spine and Neurosciences Institute. He won the contest by a landslide with the help of online votes from the UAMS community.
August 28, 2013
Interventional Pulmonologist Nikhil Meena, M.D., Joins UAMS
LITTLE ROCK – Nikhil Meena, M.D., a fellowship-trained interventional pulmonologist has joined the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS). He sees patients with lung cancer and other pulmonary conditions in the seventh floor clinics of the UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute.
August 23, 2013
UAMS Innovations Aid $12 Million Asthma Study
Aug. 23, 2013 | Living human lungs donated to the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) are helping a multi-center team of researchers begin testing potential breakthrough asthma treatments as part of a 5-year, $11.9 million study funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
UAMS Researcher’s Living Lung Innovations Aid $11.9 Million NIH Asthma Study
LITTLE ROCK – Living human lungs donated to the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) are helping a multi-center team of researchers begin testing potential breakthrough asthma treatments as part of a five-year, $11.9 million study funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
August 21, 2013
College of Medicine Continuing Ed Gets Top Marks
The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS)College of Medicine Continuing Medical Education (CME) Office, the only nationally accredited provider in Arkansas, received a six-year Accreditation with Commendation, the highest level awarded by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Education (ACCME).
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