UAMS News


January 11, 2010

$10.5 Million NIH Grant Funds Cancer Institute Expansion

Liz Caldwell

Jan. 11, 2010 | About six months before its grand opening, supporters of the UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute gathered for the first-ever news conference in the atrium of its new tower.


$10.5 Million Grant Supports Construction of UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute Expansion

Susan Van Dusen

<span class=”content”>LITTLE ROCK – The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) has been awarded a nearly $10.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to support construction of the 12-story expansion tower to the UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute.</span><br />


January 7, 2010

Keith Bennett, M.D., Calls on Unique Skills to Heal Foot Wound

Jon Parham

Jan. 7, 2010 | Eighty-six-year-old Robert E. Foust didn’t think much about it when he stepped on the angular blue rock near his home in Pine Bluff; he tossed it to the side of the street and returned from his walk.


January 26, Science Café – ‘Crime Science’

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, “Crime Science” on Jan. 26. Panelists will discus the various aspects of crime scene and laboratory analyses as well as crime science procedures.</span>


January 6, 2010

UAMS to Offer Free Glaucoma Screenings on Jan. 29 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 given from 1-5 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 29, on the Good Samaritan Campus, 121 Cortez Road, in Hot Springs Village.</span>


UAMS’ Ballard, Stone Recognized for Support of Guard Employee

Jon Parham

Jan. 6, 2010 | “They rock,” said Michelle Miller, who works on the staff in the UAMS Office of Development and Alumni Affairs, of her managers and their support of her service in the Arkansas Air National Guard.


January 5, 2010

January Dates Set for ‘Caring for the Caregiver’ at UAMS

David Robinson

<span class=”content”>LITTLE ROCK – “Caring for the Caregiver,” a free seven-week course for the general public, begins Jan. 14 at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Donald W. Reynolds Institute on Aging. <br />
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January 4, 2010

UAMS Holds Free Asperger’s Presentation Jan. 21 in Fort Smith

Jon Parham

<span class=”content”>LITTLE ROCK – The public is invited to a free presentation Jan. 21 on Asperger’s syndrome by Jason LaGory, Ph.D., of the Psychiatric Research Institute at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) at the Fort Smith chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness.</span>


December 30, 2009

UAMS Announces January Computer Classes for Seniors

David Robinson

<span class=”content”>LITTLE ROCK – Introduction to computers and an overview of Microsoft Vista will be taught in January for people ages 50 and older at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Donald W. Reynolds Institute on Aging. </span>


December 29, 2009

Urology Specialist Ayman Mahdy, M.D., Joins UAMS

David Robinson

<p class=”MsoNormal” style=”margin: 0in 0in 0pt;”><span style=”color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;”><o:p class=”content”>LITTLE ROCK – Ayman Mahdy, M.D., a urology specialist, has joined the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) and is accepting male and female patients.</o:p></span></p>



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