College of Medicine


October 31, 2022

UAMS Hosts Australian Neurosurgeon for Demonstration of Innovative Robotic Spine Surgery

Chris Carmody

Noojan Kazemi, M.D., performs a prone lateral lumbar fusion as Professor Greg Malham observes.

UAMS Serves as Teaching and Observation Site for Robotic Spine Surgery LITTLE ROCK — The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) welcomed Professor Greg Malham, BSc, MB ChB, director of spine surgery at Epworth Hospital in Melbourne, Australia, as the first visiting international surgeon to observe a procedure that uses an innovative technique for…


October 27, 2022

UAMS Receives Perinatal Care Certification from The Joint Commission

Linda Satter

stock image of mother in hospital gown holding newborn baby

LITTLE ROCK — The Joint Commission awarded its Gold Seal of Approval for Perinatal Care Certification to the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), demonstrating that UAMS has met and exceeded strict standards of care for maternal, fetal and newborn health. UAMS is the first hospital in Central Arkansas and one of 66 hospitals…


Four UAMS Researchers Receive Arkansas Breast Cancer Research 25th Anniversary Grants

Marty Trieschmann

Four faculty at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences have been awarded grants from the Arkansas Breast Cancer Research Program to further their breast cancer studies

The Arkansas Breast Cancer Research Program is celebrating its 25th year of funding breakthrough research by Arkansas scientists studying breast cancer. Since the program’s inception in 1997 with the passage of The Arkansas Breast Cancer Act, the annual grants program has awarded nearly $10 million in direct research support. UAMS administers the program. “Twenty-five years…


October 25, 2022

NIH Awards UAMS $7.9 Million to Create More Space for Pandemic Response, Infectious Disease Research

David Robinson

UAMS’ Daniel Voth, Ph.D., is leading the NIH grant supporting renovations to increase infectious disease research space in the building behind him.

LITTLE ROCK — The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) will use a $7.9 million National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant to expand its infectious disease research capacity and establish a Pandemic Response and Public Health Laboratory by renovating existing research space. The renovation will create about 9,900 square feet of additional research space…


October 24, 2022

John Spollen, M.D., to Assume Lead Role of UAMS College of Medicine in Northwest Arkansas

David Wise

John Spollen, M.D.

FAYETTEVILLE — The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) College of Medicine named John Spollen, M.D., as the new regional associate dean for the college in Northwest Arkansas, effective Jan. 1, 2023. Spollen, professor and vice chair for education in the UAMS Department of Psychiatry, will succeed Linda L.M. Worley, M.D., professor of psychiatry,…


October 17, 2022

UAMS’ Samuel Overley, M.D., Among Nation’s Top Young Spine Professionals for 2022

Linda Haymes

Samuel Overley, M.D., is an orthopaedic surgeon and assistant professor in the UAMS College of Medicine’s Departments of Orthopaedic Surgery and Neurosurgery.

LITTLE ROCK — Samuel Overley, M.D., an orthopaedic surgeon at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), was named one of the nation’s outstanding young spine care providers by the North American Spine Society’s SpineLine magazine in its fifth annual “20 Under 40” list honoring spine professionals under the age of 40.


October 13, 2022

NIH Funds UAMS Effort to Close Patient Outcome Gaps Across U.S. Level 1 and 2 Trauma Centers

David Robinson

Mathias Brochhausen, Ph.D. (right), and Kevin Sexton, M.D., will test which organizational features affect patient outcomes at 230 Level 1 and Level 2 trauma centers.

LITTLE ROCK — University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) researchers are hoping to help close wide gaps in trauma patient outcomes across the United States by harnessing new data to help trauma center leaders improve outcomes. Led by Mathias Brochhausen, Ph.D., and Kevin Sexton, M.D., the researchers will test which organizational features affect patient…


October 12, 2022

UAMS Invests Ronald D. Robertson, M.D., in the Gilbert S. “Gil” Campbell, M.D., Ph.D. Chair in Surgical Leadership and Innovation

Andrew Vogler

Robertson, Smyth and Patterson.

LITTLE ROCK — The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) College of Medicine invested Ronald D. Robertson, M.D., professor and chair of the Department of Surgery, in the Gilbert S. “Gil” Campbell, M.D., Ph.D. Chair in Surgical Leadership and Innovation during an Oct. 5 ceremony. “I have been at UAMS for 37 years, 28…


UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute Welcomes Four New Oncologists

Marty Trieschmann

Four new cancer doctors joined the Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute at UAMS

The addition of four new oncologists will expand services and increase access for patients at the Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) and its growing network of clinics at Baptist Health locations. “This is our next phase in hematology/oncology expansion as we progress toward NCI designation,” said…


October 10, 2022

Spine Specialist Jordan Walters, M.D., Joins UAMS Department of Orthopaedic Surgery

Linda Satter

Jordan Walters, M.D., in white coat

LITTLE ROCK — Jordan M. Walters, M.D., recently joined the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) as an assistant professor in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery. He is seeing patients at the UAMS Health Orthopaedic Clinic at 600 Autumn Road in Little Rock. A native of Dover, Arkansas, Walters obtained his undergraduate degree from…



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