March 15, 2023 | Soumiya Pal, M.Sc., a Ph.D. candidate in the UAMS College of Pharmacy, likes to dream big. Recently, a dream that seemed out of reach finally came true, when he was recently awarded the American Heart Association’s (AHA) Predoctoral Fellowship. The one-year fellowship includes a stipend, health insurance and project support totaling $32,553. According to the...
March 14, 2023 | Through its Heroes Against Hunger 5K Race in 2022, the Kelly-Rahn-Turnage Fellowship of Physician Assistant Students raised $11,786 for the Arkansas Food Bank, which is the second highest annual total in the race’s history. In a short ceremony March 6 at UAMS, the students presented an oversize, mock check to Michelle Hill, corporate relations manager...
March 14, 2023 | A student from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Fay W. Boozman College of Public Health, along with faculty and staff from the Arkansas Center of Birth Defects Research and Prevention and Department of Epidemiology, participated in a project to assist the people in Turkey affected by a 7.8-magnitude earthquake. Emine Bircan, a...
March 13, 2023 | Representatives from the United States Telecommunication Training Institute (USTTI) visited the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences’ (UAMS) Institute for Digital Health & Innovation (IDHI) as part of a three-day digital health training course held March 7-9. Thirteen international health and technology professionals converged on the UAMS Little Rock campus to learn more about applying...
March 13, 2023 | LITTLE ROCK — The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences’ (UAMS) Lawrence Cornett, Ph.D., has received the W. Fred Taylor Ph.D. Award in recognition of his significant contributions to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Institutional Development Award (IDeA) program. The award presentation took place Feb. 28 at the Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research...
March 10, 2023 | The long-awaited results of a 10-year lung cancer clinical trial that UAMS contributed to were recently published in the New England Journal of Medicine. UAMS was one of 83 centers in the United States, Canada and Australia that participated in the National Cancer Institute-funded trial that showed patients with early-stage lung cancer can be treated...
March 9, 2023 | The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Division for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DDEI) held a Feb. 28 ceremony to recognize members of UAMS’ 2023 Black History Wall of Honor Exhibit. The exhibit, which was displayed in the hospital’s first-floor admissions and discharge area during Black History Month, highlighted the accomplishments of Black pioneers...
March 8, 2023 | LITTLE ROCK — The Schwartz Center for Compassionate Healthcare selected the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) as one of only six health organizations across the United States to participate in the center’s inaugural Healing Healthcare Initiative (HHI).
March 7, 2023 | Among Thelma Shorter’s first stops at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Midsouth Black Expo was the UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute’s booth offering take-home colorectal screening kits. “For colorectal cancer, and all cancers, it’s better to find out if you are at risk sooner rather than later,” said Shorter of Little...
March 7, 2023 | Rangaswamy Govindarajan, M.D., hematologist and oncologist at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, has been appointed chief of the Division of Hematology and Oncology at the UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute. Govindarajan, who is also a professor in the division, will lead a growing team of physicians treating patients with benign and malignant...