UAMS News
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).
August 20, 2013
UAMS Sets September SeniorNet Computer Classes for People 50 and Up
<span class=”content”>LITTLE ROCK – Computer classes — <i>Fundamentals for Beginners, Introduction to Computers – Windows 7 </i>and<i> File Management — </i>will be taught in September for people ages 50 and older at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Donald W. Reynolds Institute on Aging. <br />
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August 16, 2013
Public Health Researchers Chosen for International Cancer Task Force
Aug. 16, 2013 | Igor Koturbash, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health in the UAMS Fay W. Boozman College of Public Health, has been invited to be part of a newly formed international initiative that will investigate the role of commonly encountered chemicals in cancer causation as well as explore new cancer-fighting therapies.
August 15, 2013
UAMS College of Medicine Office Receives Highest Accreditation Level for Continuing Education
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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