UAMS News


April 14, 2021

Drug Allergies

Tim Taylor

drug allergies

These programs were first broadcast the week of April 19, 2021.


April 6, 2021

Kelly Named Associate Director for Cancer Research Training and Education at UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute

Linda Haymes

Thomas J. Kelly Jr., Ph.D.

LITTLE ROCK — Cancer researcher Thomas J. Kelly Jr., Ph.D., has been named associate director for cancer research training and education at the Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS). Kelly is an associate professor of pathology in the UAMS College of Medicine Department of Pathology and will…


April 1, 2021

April S.A.F.E. Newsletter Available

Ben Boulden

The April S.A.F.E. newsletter is available. The subject is Arkansas’ “Move Over Law.”


March 19, 2021

UAMS Neurosurgeon Performs State’s First Deep Brain Stimulation for Epilepsy

Katrina Dupins

Palys shows image

The UAMS Epilepsy Center is the first in Arkansas to perform deep brain stimulation surgery as a treatment for epilepsy. Deep brain stimulation (DBS) for epilepsy is designed to help manage seizures in patients who have not responded to medication. DBS, which is a type of neuromodulation, has been used primarily for patients with movement…


March 18, 2021

UAMS’ Justin Leung, Ph.D., Receives $1.47 million Grant from National Cancer Institute to Study DNA Damage Regulation

Linda Haymes

Justin Leung, Ph.D., (front and center with his team), a researcher with the Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute, has been awarded a $1.47 million National Cancer Institute grant to study DNA.

LITTLE ROCK — A five-year, $1.47 million National Cancer Institute grant has been awarded to researcher Justin Leung, Ph.D., at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) to study DNA repair. Leung’s project is a collaboration with Robert Eoff, Ph.D., a professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology in the UAMS College…


March 16, 2021

Town Hall Speakers Highlight UAMS Efforts to Bolster Health Equity

Ben Boulden

UAMS Chancellor Cam Patteson, center, answers a question in writing from a member of the Town Hall audience that was read out loud by Michael Manley, left, as Provost Stephanie Gardner listens.

Increasing health equity and decreasing disparities inspire action at UAMS. The efforts include operating a food pantry for students and employees that has distributed more than 245,000 meals, sustaining a student-run, faculty-supervised clinic that provides health screenings and preventative care to an underserved community and providing outreach to minority communities in Northwest Arkansas fighting COVID-19….


March 11, 2021

Leigh Ann Wilson and Collin V. Montgomery, APRN, receive 2020 Chris Hackler Award

Linda Haymes

Collin Montgomery, APRN and Leigh Ann Wilson the Adult Sickle Cell Disease Clinical Program at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) recently received the 2020 Chris Hackler Award for Excellence in Medical Ethics.

Two employees who work with the Adult Sickle Cell Disease Clinical Program at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) recently received the 2020 Chris Hackler Award for Excellence in Medical Ethics. Social worker Leigh Ann Wilson and Collin V. Montgomery, APRN, assist UAMS’ sickle cell patients. Sickle cell disease is a genetic disease…


February 26, 2021

Marathoner Thanks Heart Team at UAMS

Katrina Dupins

Jon Norcross

Sixty days after a sudden cardiac arrest, Jon Norcross of Little Rock finished a half marathon. It was an exceptional journey to recovery, and he took a moment in January to extend his gratitude on social media for everyone who kept him alive, including a team of cardiovascular experts at UAMS Health.


February 9, 2021

Conversation with Cam — Patricia Cowan

News Staff

Chancellor Cam Patterson and DeanPatricia Cowan

In this Conversation with Cam, I speak with UAMS College of Nursing Dean Patricia Cowan, Ph.D., R.N. There is a lot happening in our College of Nursing that differentiates it from other nursing schools.


February 8, 2021

Husband and Wife Unite in Battling Myeloma

Linda Haymes

“We have been well taken care of at UAMS,” said Jerilee Gott of Sherwood, Arkansas who is a myeloma survivor along with her husband Ken. “The staff has been outstanding, and we feel we are in very good hands. Our future is very encouraging with the treatment options available for those who go into remission.”

When Jerilee and Ken Gott moved to Arkansas from New Mexico in late 2017 to be closer to their two daughters and grandchildren, she knew she would need regular checkups at the UAMS Myeloma Center. She was diagnosed with multiple myeloma, a cancer of the plasma cells in the blood, in 2009. But Jerilee Gott,…



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