College of Health Professions
August 5, 2020
Dental Clinic Staff Volunteer at UAMS’ COVID Screening Stations
When COVID-19 appeared in Arkansas in March, it affected all operations at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, including the UAMS Delta Dental of Arkansas Foundation Oral Health Clinic. As the clinic shifted to providing only urgent care procedures as directed by the Arkansas Department of Health, leadership in the College of Health Professions…
July 10, 2020
CHP Respiratory Therapy Program Featured on KATV
Our Respiratory Therapy program was featured on KATV in February. Click the button to watch the segment!
June 5, 2020
College of Health Professions Celebrates Graduates Via Zoom
The College of Health Professions approached this commencement season with pomp, circumstance and a lot of creativity.
May 18, 2020
UAMS Graduates 914 Health Care Professionals
Degrees and certificates were conferred to 914 graduates of the University of Arkansas Medical Sciences’ (UAMS) five colleges and graduate school on May 16. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, no commencement ceremony was held. A digital commencement program can be found here. Degrees were awarded to 165 in the College of Medicine, 255 in the…
UAMS Chancellor’s Teaching Award Presented to Tiffany Huitt, Ph.D., in College of Health Professions
Tiffany Huitt, Ph.D., has received the Chancellor’s Teaching Award for Teaching Excellence at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS). Huitt is director of research and an associate professor in the Department of Physician Assistant Studies in the UAMS College of Health Professions. “Dr. Huitt is a model of excellence in education and scholarship…
April 22, 2020
CHP Associate Professor ‘Honored’ by Diversity Award
Greg Robinson, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, felt honored when his colleagues nominated him for the Dr. Edith Irby Jones Excellence in Diversity and Inclusion Award for faculty.
March 19, 2020
Florida State Professor Says Food Can Help Manage Chronic Diseases
The connection between food and health dates back at least to the time of the Greek physician Hippocrates, said Bahram H. Arjmandi, Ph.D., who recently spoke at UAMS on the role functional foods can play in managing chronic diseases. “Hippocrates said, ‘Let food be thy medicine and let medicine by thy food,’” said Arimandi, professor…
December 19, 2019
Medical Laboratory Sciences Student Awarded National Scholarship
Misty Schoolfield, a junior in the College of Health Professions’ Medical Laboratory Sciences programs, is one of five students nationwide to receive a $2,000 scholarship from the American Proficiency Institute (API).
Tina Maddox, Ph.D., Joins UAMS Northwest Regional Campus as Associate Dean of the College of Health Professions
FAYETTEVILLE — Tina Maddox, Ph.D., has accepted a new leadership role as associate dean in the College of Health Professions at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Northwest Regional Campus. Previously she was associate dean for academic affairs in the College of Health Professions at UAMS in Little Rock. In her new role, Maddox will…
November 22, 2019
Deep Roots — For CHP’s Faculty Alumni, There’s No Place Like UAMS
For some faculty members in the College of Health Profession, their roots at UAMS go deep — all the way back to when they were students themselves.
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