UAMS News


November 17, 2014

UAMS Provides ER Telemedicine Support to Chicot Memorial

Ben Boulden

LITTLE ROCK – The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Emergency Department recently began providing emergency medical support via a telemedicine connection to the Chicot Memorial Medical Center in Lake Village.


November 14, 2014

UAMS Researcher Receives Best NIH score for New Concept of Early Disease Diagnosis with Photoswitchable Nanoparticles

Ben Boulden

LITTLE ROCK – University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) researcher Vladimir Zharov, Ph.D., D.Sc., recently was awarded a $1.5 million R01 grant by the National Institutes of Health to investigate his diagnostic concept — “In vivo reading written in blood” — with new stimuli-responsive nanoparticles circulating in blood.


UAMS Researcher Receives Best NIH score for New Concept Early Disease Diagnosis with Photoswitchable Nanoparticles

Ben Boulden

Nov. 14, 2014 | University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) researcher Vladimir Zharov, Ph.D., D.Sc., recently was awarded a $1.5 million R01 grant by the National Institutes of Health to investigate his diagnostic concept — “In vivo reading written in blood” — with new stimuli-responsive nanoparticles circulating in blood.


UAMS 12th Street Center Teaches Community How to Survive the Holidays

Ben Boulden

Nov. 14, 2014 | The UAMS 12th Street Health and Wellness Center’s Surviving the Holidays event Nov. 6 showed the public how to enjoy the holidays while avoiding the season’s unhealthy pitfalls – flu, poor nutrition and lack of physical activity.


November 13, 2014

UAMS Researcher Awarded $1.5 Million Grant to Study Early Disease Diagnosis with Nanoparticles

Ben Boulden

LITTLE ROCK – University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) researcher Vladimir Zharov, Ph.D., D.Sc., recently was awarded a $1.5 million grant by the National Institutes of Health to investigate the use of nanoparticles in cancer diagnosis and treatment.


November 12, 2014

UAMS’ Kinder Elected to National Nurses Board

Spencer Watson

LITTLE ROCK — Sarah Rhoads Kinder, Ph.D., D.N.P., University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Center for Distance Health Education Director, has been elected to serve a two-year term on the Association for Women’s Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses Board of Directors.


UAMS’ Thomason Receives National Gerontological Nursing Excellence Award

Spencer Watson

LITTLE ROCK – Ayasha Patel Thomason, M.N.Sc., A.P.R.N., an assistant professor in the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) College of Nursing, was named a Patricia G. Archbold Scholar for 2014-2016 by the National Hartford Centers of Gerontological Nursing Excellence.


UAMS Cancer Institute Teams with Razorbacks in #StachesforSlive Campaign for Prostate Cancer Research

Susan Van Dusen

LITTLE ROCK – Doctors, coaches and staff members at two University of Arkansas System campuses are joining forces this month to raise money and awareness for prostate cancer.


November 10, 2014

UAMS provides maternal telemedicine in Oklahoma

Spencer Watson

LITTLE ROCK – The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) today started providing support via telemedicine to high-risk pregnant mothers and physicians at the Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology who treat them at OSU Medical Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma.


November 7, 2014

UAMS Receives Pro Patria Award

Spencer Watson

Nov. 7, 2014 | Dozens of veterans in attendance and hundreds more employed by UAMS were honored at an appreciation breakfast, at which the university itself was presented with the state’s highest honor for an employer’s service to its veterans.



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