UAMS News
August 1, 2007
New UAMS Surgeon’s Skills Enable Surgeries Without Incision
LITTLE ROCK – Diane Rhoden, M.D., a fellowship-trained surgeon in laparoscopic and endoscopic procedures, has joined the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS).
July 31, 2007
UAMS to Offer Free Thyroid Seminar in Conway Aug. 28
LITTLE ROCK – Physicians from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Thyroid Center will conduct a free seminar on the diagnosis and treatment of thyroid conditions at 6 p.m. Aug. 28 in the Brewer-Hegeman Conference Center at the University of Central Arkansas, 201 Donaghey Ave., in Conway.
July 25, 2007
American Hospital Association Certifies UAMS’ Cotten As Healthcare Facility Manager
LITTLE ROCK – Brian Cotten, director of construction management at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) in Little Rock, was recently designated a certified healthcare facility manager by the American Hospital Association (AHA).
July 23, 2007
Free or Low-Cost Women’s Health Screenings Offered Aug. 15, Thanks to UAMS Witness Project
LITTLE ROCK – Free or low-cost mammograms are available Aug. 15 to women in Mississippi County age 40 and older who qualify through The Witness Project, a community-based cancer education program of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) College of Public Health.
July 20, 2007
UAMS Opens Arkansas’ First Lab for Drug Trials
LITTLE ROCK – A new laboratory specially designed for making drugs used in clinical trials was the setting today for an open house at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) BioVentures building.
July 19, 2007
UAMS Researchers Identify Sleep-Wake Controls with Implications for Coma Patients and Those Under Anesthesia
LITTLE ROCK – How do we wake up? How do we shift from restful sleep to dreaming? Researchers at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) have discovered a new brain mechanism that just might explain how we do that. This new mechanism also may help us understand how certain anesthetics put us to sleep and how certain stimulants wake us up.
July 18, 2007
UAMS Reynolds Institute on Aging Announces $2.5 Million Gift from Frank and Jane Lyon
LITTLE ROCK – The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) has received a gift of $2.5 million from Frank and Jane Lyon to its Donald W. Reynolds Department of Geriatrics. The donation will be used to create the Thomas and Lyon Longevity Clinic in the UAMS Reynolds Institute on Aging.
Tom Mulligan, M.D., Named Director of UAMS Center on Aging in Jonesboro
LITTLE ROCK – Tom Mulligan, M.D., has been named director of the Center on Aging Northeast in Jonesboro. The center is a partnership between the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences’ (UAMS) Donald W. Reynolds Institute on Aging, the UAMS Area Health Education Center Northeast and St. Bernards Healthcare in Jonesboro
July 16, 2007
Gift of $50,000 to UAMS Cancer Center To Benefit Leukemia Research
LITTLE ROCK – A donation of $50,000 to the Arkansas Cancer Research Center (ACRC) at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) will assist in equipping a lab dedicated to leukemia research.
July 11, 2007
UAMS’ Lowery Named Chairman of Obstetrics and Gynecology
LITTLE ROCK – Curtis Lowery, M.D., a maternal-fetal specialist at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), has been named chairman of the UAMS College of Medicine’s Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology.
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