May 24, 2023 | Twenty-one UAMS College of Pharmacy seniors announced their postgraduate residency positions May 11 as their classmates, family and friends looked on and applauded. The college announced that each student who applied for a residency received one, for a perfect 100% rate. Six alumni also matched to second-year positions in their specialty. At the ceremony, held...
May 24, 2023 | Board-certified gynecologic oncologist Monique Spillman, M.D., Ph.D., has joined the Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) as chief of the Division of Gynecologic Oncology. She is also co-director of cancer services and a professor in the UAMS College of Medicine Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Prior to...
May 23, 2023 | LITTLE ROCK — The first Arkansan and only second person in the world has received an innovative prosthetic hand, developed by researchers at the Institute for Integrative and Innovative Research (I³R), that restores a meaningful sense of touch and grip force following surgery at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS). The lengthy and...
May 23, 2023 | The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Fay W. Boozman College of Public Health Department of Health Behavior and Health Education (HBHE) presented the 2023 Maternal and Child Health Summit. During the summit, researchers, health care professionals and community organizations learned about trends and solutions related to maternal and child health in Arkansas. “Our...
May 22, 2023 | LITTLE ROCK — The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) today conferred degrees and certificates to 1,096 students in its five colleges and graduate school. Degrees and certificates were awarded to 157 students in the College of Medicine, 210 in the College of Nursing, 524 in the College of Health Professions, 76 in the...
May 22, 2023 | The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) College of Nursing hosted Karen E. Wickersham, Ph.D., RN, of the University of South Carolina for a lecture about her research on cancer survivorship. Wickersham, assistant professor at the Cancer Survivorship Research Center in the University of South Carolina College of Nursing, spoke to UAMS College of...
May 19, 2023 | Along with the 10th class of students to graduate from Project SEARCH on May 16, UAMS and Project SEARCH also reached a milestone – 10 years of working together for the benefit of those students.
May 19, 2023 | A recent University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS ) Fay W. Boozman College of Public of Health graduate led a project examining the use — and effectiveness — of dietary supplements, antimalarial medicines and vitamins during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic. Corbin Norton, M.D., MPH, a urology resident at the University of...
May 19, 2023 | A celebration for the enduring legacy of Edith Irby Jones, M.D., and the scholarship that she inspired was held April 19. The event also provided an opportunity to acknowledge the growth of the Edith Irby Jones, M.D. Endowed Scholarship, and the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) College of Medicine students that have benefited...
May 18, 2023 | The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) held a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) Reunion at the Little Rock Zoo on Sunday, May 7.