College of Medicine
May 8, 2020
UAMS Mobile Unit Screens in Warren, Mountain Home, Forrest City, SW Little Rock
It’s been another busy week for the UAMS Mobile Triage Unit, which provided nearly 400 COVID-19 drive-thru evaluations last week in four different cities: Warren, Mountain Home, Forrest City and southwest Little Rock. “These mobile testing sites are vital for rural communities and people who may not have access to transportation,” said Jennifer Hunt, M.D.,…
May 7, 2020
UAMS Receives FDA Authorization for Convalescent Plasma Use, Plus Partnerships for Statewide Access
The Food and Drug Administration has authorized the use of convalescent plasma in Arkansas as an experimental treatment for COVID-19 with the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) as the expanded access treatment program sponsor. With the authorization, UAMS Medical Center is able to use the treatment now without applying for FDA approval for…
April 30, 2020
10th Annual Dean’s Honor Awards Recognize Outstanding UAMS College of Medicine Faculty and Staff
The UAMS College of Medicine today announced its 10th annual Dean’s Honor Awards, recognizing exemplary faculty and staff for their work in education, research and clinical care as well as humanism and service to the college and its mission in Arkansas. “Although we can’t gather in an auditorium and applaud our colleagues in person this spring…
April 29, 2020
Baptist Health-UAMS Family Medicine Residency Program Receives Full Accreditation
The Baptist Health-UAMS Family Medicine Residency program has received a full accreditation from the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). The program was started in 2019 to provide more positions to train medical school graduates and address the physician shortage in Arkansas, especially in rural areas. Studies show that physicians are more likely to…
April 28, 2020
Participation Surges as Trainings Supporting Educators and Children Shift Online
Helping a child identify emotions, enabling a home visitor to effectively work with a family, inspiring children to explore healthy foods, coaching a childcare facility through improving targeted goals — these are all things the early childhood education programs at UAMS did in person before March 2020. In a matter of weeks, the Research &…
April 27, 2020
UAMS’ James Fletcher, M.D., Earns Fellow Status from the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine
James Fletcher, M.D., of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), has earned the designation Fellow of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine.
April 13, 2020
Pathology Chair Jennifer Hunt, M.D., Voted Outstanding Woman Faculty
Jennifer Hunt, M.D., has been voted Outstanding Woman Faculty 2020 by her peers at UAMS as a leader, mentor and nationally recognized champion for women in medicine. Hunt is chair of the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Sciences in the College of Medicine at UAMS. In addition to mentoring individual students and faculty, she has…
April 8, 2020
UAMS Receives $1M Grant for Two Clinical Trials on Opioid Withdrawal in Infants
The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), in collaboration with the Duke Clinical Research Institute, has received a $1 million federal grant for two clinical trials involving infants with neonatal opioid withdrawal syndrome (NOWS). The increase in maternal opioid use has resulted in a rise in the number of infants born with NOWS. The…
April 3, 2020
Johnathan Goree, M.D., Named Arkansas Physician of the Year by Arkansas Business
Johnathan H. Goree, M.D., an anesthesiologist who specializes in chronic pain and director of the Chronic Pain Division at UAMS was named Arkansas Physician of the Year on April 2 at the Arkansas Business Healthcare Heroes celebration. The annual awards event was held virtually on YouTube because of the COVID-19 pandemic. In presenting the awards,…
March 30, 2020
Research Shows Hypothyroidism Patients Who Choose Alternative Therapies Cite Effectiveness, Improved Symptoms
Three out of four people with an underactive thyroid using an alternative “natural” treatment not approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration report that they do so because it is more effective than the standard therapy, according to research from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) and the Mayo Clinic. Freddy J.K….
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