UAMS News
August 20, 2014
Barone Named to FDA Panel on Tobacco
Claudia Barone, Ed.D., A.P.R.N., a professor in the College of Nursing at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), has become the first nurse appointed to the Tobacco Products Scientific Advisory Committee of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
August 19, 2014
Smoking Cessation Support Group to Begin Sept. 3 at UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute
LITTLE ROCK – Smokers who desire to quit are invited to participate in a free support group at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS).
August 15, 2014
UAMS Medical Student From Gurdon Awarded $10,000 to Choose Primary Care
LITTLE ROCK — Sarah Franklin of Gurdon, Ark., has been named the first recipient of the Arkansas Mutual Medical Student Award, a scholarship for third-year medical students at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) who want to practice primary care in rural Arkansas.
UAMS Med Student From Gurdon Awarded $10,000 to Choose Primary Care
Aug. 15, 2014 | Sarah Franklin of Gurdon, Ark., has been named the first recipient of the Arkansas Mutual Medical Student Award, a scholarship for third-year medical students at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) who want to practice primary care in rural Arkansas.
Patients Find Relief from Chronic Pain through New Device
Aug. 15, 2014 | Chronic pain had diminished the lives of both Steve Moore and Tony Yocom. Protégé, a new neurostimulation system implanted during surgery at UAMS, has given some of that life back.
Patient, 88, Perseveres to Earn Graduate Degree
Shirley Pence, 88, has learned the open secret about aging: To be able to keep doing things, you need to keep doing things. “It’s about perseverance,” Pence said. A patient of Priya Mendiratta, M.D., in the Thomas and Lyon Longevity Clinic at the UAMS Donald W. Reynolds Institute on Aging, surgery at UAMS for carpal…
August 14, 2014
UAMS Neurosurgeon First in Arkansas to Implant New Spinal Cord Stimulation Device to Alleviate Chronic Pain
LITTLE ROCK – The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences’ (UAMS) Erika Petersen, M.D., recently became the first neurosurgeon in Arkansas to implant in a patient the Protégé IPG device, the world’s first and only neurostimulation system that can be updated through software rather than surgery.
August 13, 2014
UAMS, Arkansas Department of Veterans Affairs Expand Affiliation
Aug. 13, 2014 | Gov. Mike Beebe joined officials from UAMS and the Arkansas Department of Veterans Affairs today at UAMS Northwest in Fayetteville to announce a plan to provide residents in the Arkansas State Veterans Home on the regional campus improved care.
UAMS Names New Head of Human Resources
LITTLE ROCK — The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) has hired experienced human resources executive and native Arkansan Jeff Risinger as associate vice chancellor for human resources.
August 12, 2014
UAMS/UALR-Developed Clot Buster Device Aids in Stroke Treatment
LITTLE ROCK — A new device developed by a physician at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) and a researcher at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock (UALR) could soon be available to treat stroke more effectively.
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