UAMS News


October 7, 2009

Bickel Winner of Distinguished Faculty Lectureship Award

Liz Caldwell

LITTLE ROCK – Warren K. Bickel, Ph.D., director of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences’ Center for Addiction Research, has been chosen to receive the 2008-2009 Dean’s Distinguished Faculty Lectureship Award, presented annually to a faculty member of the UAMS College of Medicine.


UAMS Mammogram Campaign to Focus on Women With Disabilities

David Robinson

LITTLE ROCK – Abnormally high rates of breast cancer among women with disabilities have led the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) and the Arkansas Disability & Health Program at Partners for Inclusive Communities to begin a public awareness campaign this fall that encourages women with disabilities to get their mammograms. <span class=”content”></span>


UAMS Doctoral Candidates Receive White Coats

Nate Hinkel

Oct. 7, 2009 | White coats were distributed to 32 University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) graduate students marking “the defining moment” of their young careers as a full house of mentors, faculty and family members watched.


October 6, 2009

Women Invited to Participate in UAMS Breast Cancer Study

David Robinson

<p class=”MsoNormal” style=”margin: 0in 0in 0pt;”>LITTLE ROCK – All women are invited to “Spit for the Cure” at the Texarkana Race for the Cure on Oct. 17 as part of a breast cancer research study by the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS). <span class=”content”></span></p>


Public Invited to Defensive Driving Course at UAMS

David Robinson

LITTLE ROCK – The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) is hosting an AARP-sponsored defensive driving class Oct. 10<span class=”content”></span> at its Donald W. Reynolds Institute on Aging.


October 2, 2009

Experts Share Latest Advances in Treatment of Leukemia, Lymphoma

Jon Parham

Oct. 2, 2009 | Health care providers for patients with leukemia and lymphoma gathered Sept. 18 at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) to hear the latest advances in their field.


September 30, 2009

Mohamed Kamel, M.D., Joins UAMS Department of Urology

Susan Van Dusen

<span class=”content”>LITTLE ROCK – Mohamed Kamel, M.D., a specialist in cancer of the prostate, bladder and kidney, is now seeing patients at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS).</span> <br />


September 29, 2009

UAMS Celebrates Opening of New Allied Health College Home

Nate Hinkel

<span class=”content”>LITTLE ROCK – With a record enrollment, the College of Health Related Professions at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) today celebrated its recent move into several renovated buildings once part of the nearby Arkansas State Hospital.</span>


UAMS Marks Constitution Day With Two Lectures

Nate Hinkel

Sept. 30, 2009 | Constitution Day was twice as nice in 2009 as the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) marked the occasion with back-to-back lectures on the document that has served for more than two centuries as the supreme law of the United States.


September 23, 2009

UAMS Ranked Among Top 25 by InformationWeek for Use of Technology

Jon Parham

Sept. 24, 2009 | Use of technology to improve data-gathering and sharing in clinical research put the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) among the nation’s most innovative users of technology, according to the annual ranking by business technology magazine InformationWeek.



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