UAMS News
July 9, 2007
$40,000 Grant to Support Geriatrics Education at UAMS
LITTLE ROCK – An assistant professor at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) has been awarded a two-year grant totaling $40,000 to assist in training medical and surgical residents in the area of geriatrics.
July 5, 2007
J. Robert Harris Named Assistant Vice Chancellor for Ambulatory Services at UAMS Medical Center
LITTLE ROCK – J. Robert Harris has been named assistant vice chancellor for ambulatory services at UAMS Medical Center.
June 28, 2007
UAMS Celebrates Double ‘Topping Out’ of Hospital Expansion, PRI
LITTLE ROCK – The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) today marked the high points for construction of a 10-floor, 540,000-square-foot expansion of UAMS Medical Center and the adjacent five-floor, 100,000-square-foot Psychiatric Research Institute (PRI) with a double “topping out” ceremony.
June 26, 2007
Two UAMS Doctoral Students Receive Geriatric Nursing Awards
LITTLE ROCK – Two University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) College of Nursing doctoral students are among 14 pre-doctoral scholars selected nationally to receive up to $100,000 each to continue their advanced geriatric nursing studies over the next two years.
June 25, 2007
Free or Low-Cost Women’s Health Screenings Offered in Phillips County on July 25, Thanks to UAMS Witness Project
LITTLE ROCK – Free or low-cost mammograms are available July 25 to women in Phillips 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.
June 21, 2007
John Delk, M.D., Named First UAMS Wilson Chair of Prosthetic Urology
LITTLE ROCK – John R. Delk II, M.D., today became the inaugural recipient of the Steven K. Wilson, M.D., Chair of Prosthetic Urology at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS).
June 20, 2007
UAMS Set to Open Eighth Area Health Education Center
North central Arkansas will have the state’s eighth University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Area Health Education Center (AHEC) starting July 1.
June 19, 2007
UAMS Seeking Participants for National Study on Vision Loss
LITTLE ROCK – Researchers at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) are seeking participants with age-related macular degeneration (AMD) to measure the impact of vitamins and fish oil on the disease.
June 13, 2007
UAMS Myeloma Institute Receives $4.5 Million To Study Genetics of Disease
LITTLE ROCK – The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences’ Myeloma Institute for Research and Therapy has received $4.5 million from a San Francisco couple to establish a one-of-a kind laboratory for research into the genetic profile of multiple myeloma, a cancer of the bone marrow.
Nicholas Lang, M.D., Named Chief Medical Officer at UAMS Medical Center
LITTLE ROCK – Nicholas Lang, M.D., has been named chief medical officer for UAMS Medical Center.
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