UAMS News


February 23, 2010

UAMS Faculty Earn Clinical/Translational Research Awards

Nate Hinkel

Feb. 23, 2010 | The ripple effect from last summer’s largest-ever research grant earned by the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) has reached 17 faculty members dedicated to clinical and translational research.


February 19, 2010

UAMS Emergency Department Participates in Suicide Prevention Study

Jon Parham

Feb. 19, 2010 | Hoping to improve detection of suicide risk among patients in hospital emergency departments, the UAMS Department of Emergency Medicine is among eight sites participating in a National Institutes of Health study.


February 18, 2010

UAMS Announces March Computer Classes for Seniors

David Robinson

<span class=”content”>LITTLE ROCK – Microsoft Vista, file management and word processing will be taught in March for people ages 50 and older at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Donald W. Reynolds Institute on Aging. </span>


Five Named to UAMS Foundation Fund Board

David Robinson

<span class=”content”>LITTLE ROCK – Patti Bailey, Frances Cranford and Jim Darr, all of Little Rock; George H. Dunklin Jr. of Humphrey; and Reynie Rutledge of Searcy have been elected to the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Foundation Fund Board.</span>


February 17, 2010

UAMS Institute on Aging Hosts Free Seminar on Palliative Care

Jon Parham

<span class=”content”>LITTLE ROCK – The Donald W. Reynolds Institute on Aging at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences will host a free four-week seminar on palliative, or comfort, care starting March 8 at the Institute on Aging, 629 Jack Stephens Drive.</span>


February 12, 2010

Day Named UAMS Neurosurgery Department Chairman

Jon Parham

<span class=”content”>LITTLE ROCK – Internationally known leader in the field of skull base surgery J.D. Day, M.D., has been named chairman of the Department of Neurosurgery in the College of Medicine at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS). </span>


Day Named UAMS Neurosurgery Department Chairman

Jon Parham

Feb. 12, 2010 | Internationally known leader in the field of skull base surgery J.D. Day, M.D., has been named chairman of the Department of Neurosurgery in the College of Medicine at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS).


February 23, Science Café – ‘Social Networking & IT’

David Robinson

<span class=”content”>LITTLE ROCK – The Science Café Little Rock, co-sponsored by the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), will hold its next public forum, “Social Networking & IT,” on Feb. 23. Panelists will discuss the skyrocketing use of social networks and why people use them, as well as computer science connectivity research. </span>


February 10, 2010

Jerry G. Jones, M.D., Longtime UAMS, ACH Advocate for Children at Risk Receives National Award

Jon Parham

<span class=”content”>LITTLE ROCK – Jerry G. Jones, M.D., a professor of pediatrics at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) and director of the Center for Children at Risk, a collaboration of UAMS and Arkansas Children’s Hospital (ACH), recently received an award for his longtime advocacy for children at risk from the American Academy of Pediatrics.</span>


February 9, 2010

UAMS Reschedules Free Glaucoma Screenings for Feb. 19 at Hot Springs Village

Jon Parham

<span class=”content”>LITTLE ROCK – Free glaucoma screenings, conducted by ophthalmologists from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Jones Eye Institute, will be conducted from 1-5 p.m. Friday, Feb. 19, in the Learning Center at the Good Samaritan campus, 121 Cortez Road, in Hot Springs Village.</span>



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