College of Medicine
July 17, 2025
Sandra and Robert Connor Give $300,000 to Create Distinguished Scholarship in College of Medicine
LITTLE ROCK — The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) received a $300,000 gift from Sandra and Robert Connor to create the Sandra and Robert C. Connor Distinguished Endowed Scholarship in the UAMS College of Medicine. The gift was made in recognition of the impact that UAMS will have on Arkansas. It is also…
July 15, 2025
Erin Jefferson, M.D., Joins UAMS to Lead Women’s Mental Health Clinic in NWA
FAYETTEVILLE — Erin Jefferson, M.D., an assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry, joined the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) to establish the Women’s Mental Health Program, Northwest Arkansas’s first specialized clinic dedicated to perinatal mental health.
June 26, 2025
College Students Explore Cancer Research at Arkansas INBRE Workshop
Undergraduates from 14 schools across the country had the opportunity to explore the field of cancer research at a UAMS workshop sponsored by the Arkansas INBRE (IDeA Networks of Biomedical Research Excellence). Held May 28 in the UAMS Library, the “Bench to Bedside: Breakthroughs in Cancer Research and Therapy Workshop” attracted nearly 30 students interested in…
June 19, 2025
UAMS Earns Initial Accreditation for Family Medicine Residency Program in El Dorado
The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) has received initial accreditation from the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) to establish a family medicine rural track residency program in El Dorado. The new residency program will focus on full scope family medicine with a unique emphasis on obstetrics. Recruiting for the program will…
June 18, 2025
UAMS Postdoc Competes on Global Stage with Lifesaving Technology
Henry Palfrey, Ph.D., a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), and his business startup team, PulseArk Technologies, reached the semifinals and earned a Best Presentation Award in the Bangkok Business Challenge, one of the world’s leading student startup competitions. Palfrey is a third-year postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of John…
June 6, 2025
First Dual Fellow in Pediatrics Hematology / Oncology and Clinical Informatics Receives Top Honors, Job Offer
Andrew Tran was halfway through college in Austin, Texas, waffling between a future in biochemistry and astrophysics, when he got a job as a cashier in the gift shop at Dell Children’s Hospital. The cash register was a little difficult to operate, but the job was OK otherwise. Then one day, the hospital was short-staffed…
June 5, 2025
Gifts from Walker Foundation, Jane Lyon Honor UAMS’ Jeanne Wei, M.D., Ph.D., Create Distinguished Chair
LITTLE ROCK — The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) received gifts totaling more than $2.1 million to create the Jeanne Wei, M.D., Ph.D., Distinguished Chair for Leadership in Geriatric Medicine, an endowed fund in the Donald W. Reynolds Institute on Aging. The Willard & Pat Walker Charitable Foundation made a $1 million donation…
May 28, 2025
UAMS College of Medicine Graduates 168
The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) conferred degrees on 168 graduates of the College of Medicine on May 16 during a ceremony at the Statehouse Convention Center in downtown Little Rock. The formal transition from fourth-year medical students to physicians began with Chancellor Cam Patterson, M.D., MBA, conferring medical degrees on students just…
May 23, 2025
UAMS College of Medicine Celebrates Faculty and Staff at 2025 Dean’s Honor Day
The College of Medicine at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) recently celebrated the achievements of faculty and staff at its annual Dean’s Honor Day ceremony, presenting awards for teaching, clinical care, research, administration, humanism and service. The college also recognized faculty members who are receiving promotion and/or tenure in 2025.
May 19, 2025
UAMS Graduates 1,186 Health Professionals
The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) recently held commencement ceremonies to confer degrees and certificates to 1,186 students in its five colleges and graduate school. UAMS awarded a total of 1,207 degrees or certificates: 168 to students in the College of Medicine, 183 in the College of Nursing, 643 in the College of…
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