UAMS News


January 15, 2010

UAMS Expands Look Good … Feel Better Program for Cancer Patients

Susan Van Dusen

<span class=”content”>LITTLE ROCK – A free program to help women cope with the appearance-related changes that accompany cancer treatment is expanding at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS). </span><br />


Chancellor Calls on Employees to ‘Live the Change’ in King’s Words

Jon Parham

Jan. 15, 2010 | UAMS’ institutional core values are built on the same principles of integrity and respect that guided civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., UAMS Chancellor Dan Rahn, M.D., told UAMS faculty and staff attending an event marking King’s birthday. Rahn called on employees to “be the change we want to see in the world.”


January 14, 2010

UAMS Head Start/Early Head Start to Take Enrollment Applications for the 2010-2011 School Year

David Robinson

<span class=”content”>LITTLE ROCK – The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Head Start/ Early Head Start program on Jan. 25 will begin accepting applications for the 2010 – 2011 school year, which begins in August. </span>


January 13, 2010

Ashley County Medical Center Joins UAMS-Led Program to Provide Emergency Stroke Care

David Robinson

<span class=”content”>LITTLE ROCK – Ashley County Medical Center in Crossett has partnered with the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) to provide life-saving emergency care for stroke patients in south Arkansas. </span>


January 12, 2010

UAMS Breast Cancer Awareness Program Receives Grant from Avon Foundation

Nate Hinkel

<span class=”content”>LITTLE ROCK – The Witness Project, a program of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) to increase awareness of breast cancer, has been awarded a $20,000 one-year grant from the Avon Foundation Breast Care Fund. It’s the ninth year the program has received Avon Foundation funding.</span>


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>



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