UAMS News


November 26, 2014

UAMS to Host Ebola Preparedness Symposium for Businesses Dec. 16

Spencer Watson

LITTLE ROCK — A symposium entitled “What Businesses Should Know About Ebola Preparedness” will be presented Dec. 16 at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS).


UAMS’ Roberson Elected Fellow by American Association for the Advancement of Science

Spencer Watson

LITTLE ROCK — Paula K. Roberson, Ph.D., a professor and chair of the Department of Biostatistics in the College of Medicine and the Fay W. Boozman College of Public Health at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), has been elected a fellow by the American Association for the Advancement of Science.


Arkansas Tech Summit Provides Perspective for Entrepreneurs, Investors

Ben Boulden

Nov. 26, 2014 | Just as mountain climbers can see most clearly from a summit top, the Arkansas Technology Summit in Little Rock and North Little Rock from Nov. 12-13 provided 175 entrepreneurs a clear vision of the investment environment for technology-based startups in the state.


Personalized Medicine Overcomes Advanced Lung Cancer

Spencer Watson

Nov. 26, 2014 | &I feel good. I’m learning my late husband’s business. I play bridge. I talk on the phone with my children and work as a volunteer. I’m as busy as I can be.


November 25, 2014

UAMS 12th Street Health & Wellness Center to Provide Health Screenings Dec. 1 in Observance of World AIDS Day

Ben Boulden

LITTLE ROCK – The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) 12th Street Health & Wellness Center invites the public to participate in free health care services at its “Health on 12th for the Holidays” from 4-7 p.m. Dec. 1 at the center, 4010 W. 12th St.


November 24, 2014

Nutrition Research Highlighted at Showcase

Ben Boulden

Nov. 24, 2014 |”You are what you eat”. College of Medicine researchers gathered Nov. 12 for the Showcase of Medical Discoveries: A Focus on Nutrition with the data to prove or deny this familiar adage.


UAMS Myeloma Institute’s Barlogie Named Distinguished Professor of Medicine and Pathology

Ben Boulden

LITTLE ROCK — In recognition of his contributions to ground-breaking translational research and his care of thousands of patients with multiple myeloma, Bart Barlogie, M.D., Ph.D., has been named distinguished professor of medicine and pathology in the College of Medicine of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) by resolution of the University of Arkansas Board of Trustees.


November 21, 2014

Raczynski, Phillips Pledge $1 Million to UAMS College of Public Health

Spencer Watson

Nov. 21 | Jim Raczynski, Ph.D., dean of the Fay W. Boozman College of Public Health, and his wife, Martha Phillips, Ph.D., associate professor of epidemiology, have pledged a planned estate gift of $1 million to UAMS to establish the Raczynski Phillips Bruce Chair in Social Determinants of Health.


Lawmakers, UAMS Celebrate Support for 12th Street Health Center

Ben Boulden

Nov. 21, 2014 | State Sen. Joyce Elliott and state Rep. Warrick Sabin got the chance Nov. 18 to see what a positive difference $80,000 in state funds and their support for the UAMS 12th Street Health and Wellness Center is making for its patients, many of them residents of the surrounding Little Rock Promise Neighborhood.


Nov. 25 Science Café — ‘Hunting the Elements: Materials Science’

Spencer Watson

LITTLE ROCK – Science Café Little Rock, co-sponsored by the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), will hold its next public forum, Hunting the Elements: Materials Science, on Nov. 25.



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