July 20, 2023 | LITTLE ROCK — The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences’ (UAMS) 12th Street Health & Wellness Center received a grant for $195,655 from the Methodist Foundation for Arkansas. With the grant, UAMS will purchase essential imaging equipment for the clinic. Located in Little Rock’s 12th Street corridor, just south of the UAMS’ main campus, the...
July 19, 2023 | UAMS neurosurgeon Analiz Rodriguez, M.D., Ph.D., and radiation oncologist Richard Crownover, M.D., Ph.D., successfully performed the 1,000th Gamma Tile brain surgery in the United States last month. Gamma Tile is a fairly new surgical procedure in which a thin collagen tile infused with radiation is embedded in the tumor cavity immediately after a brain tumor...
July 18, 2023 | LITTLE ROCK — Becker’s Hospital Review named Cam Patterson, M.D., MBA, the chancellor of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) and CEO of UAMS Health, as one of its 2023 “Physician leaders to know.”
July 17, 2023 | LITTLE ROCK — Harrison Reed, MHSA, has been appointed as chief administrative officer and associate vice chancellor for clinical finance and strategy for UAMS Health.
July 14, 2023 | Through a collaborative effort of the Arkansas IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence (INBRE) and the Division of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, 25 students from Reed Elementary in the Dumas School District visited the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) on June 19 as part of a science, technology, engineering, art and math (STEAM)...
July 13, 2023 | The UAMS College of Pharmacy has recognized a number of outstanding preceptors for their efforts in teaching pharmacy students over the 2022-23 academic year. Preceptors were recognized by the college’s Office of Experiential Education through its advisory committee for showing the highest commitment to student education and engagement. The list includes 10 UAMS Health system...
July 12, 2023 | Adam Wolfe, M.D., Ph.D., a radiation oncologist at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute has received a $583,200 grant from the American Cancer Society (ACS) to study radiation resistance in pancreatic cancer, a lethal disease with the highest mortality rate of all cancers. The four-year ACS Clinician Science...
July 11, 2023 | Jaimi Allen, Ph.D., of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Fay W. Boozman College of Public Health Department of Epidemiology, led a study that examined factors that often impact a cancer survivor’s job status during and upon completion of treatment. A cancer survivor is someone who has been diagnosed with cancer, regardless of...
July 11, 2023 | LITTLE ROCK — The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) awarded the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) $1 million to fund outreach for the commission’s Affordable Connectivity Program, which helps ensure that households across America have access to broadband internet. The FCC created the Affordable Connectivity Program to help households struggling to pay for internet...
July 10, 2023 | LITTLE ROCK — The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) has partnered with the Arkansas State Crime Laboratory to offer a one-year fellowship in forensic pathology, starting July 1, 2024.