May 3, 2023 | Ten students represented the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) chapter of the Student National Pharmaceutical Association at a regional conference that gave them the opportunity to network with peers, pharmacists and potential employers. The conference, held March 31-April 1 in New Orleans, included pharmacy students from the organization’s West Coast, Midwest and Southwest...
May 2, 2023 | FAYETTEVILLE — Rural women cancer survivors are more likely to experience financial strain related to basic household needs rather than medical debt, according to researchers from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Office of Community Health & Research. The study, “It was kind of a nightmare, it really was:” Financial Toxicity Among Rural...
May 2, 2023 | LITTLE ROCK — Christi Madden, MPA, has joined the UAMS Translational Research Institute as its executive director. Madden, a leader with more than two decades of research programmatic management experience, spent most of her career in her home state of Oklahoma at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center (OUHSC), where she worked in the...
May 1, 2023 | LITTLE ROCK — A groundbreaking nationwide clinical trial in which the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) played a key role has confirmed an effective way to wean newborns from opioid withdrawal symptoms that substantially reduces hospital stays and the traditional use of drug therapies. Using an “Eat, Sleep, Console” (ESC) care approach resulted...
April 28, 2023 | Health professionals in the United States have an important role to play in the climate crisis because it is also a public health crisis, Victor J. Dzau, M.D., president of the National Academy of Medicine, told an audience at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS). As the inaugural lecturer for The Richard and...
April 28, 2023 | Cataracts had made life so difficult for Joshua Roby, 43, of Springdale that he could not write up reports at his security job, and he needed help walking around. Less than a day after cataract surgery, he says his vision is “much, much better,” and he can move well on his own. Eight patients from...
April 27, 2023 | Paul Duguid, MPH, an assistant director of funding programs for the UAMS Translational Research Institute, also is an alum of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Fay W. Boozman College of Public Health. Duguid, who started his public health education in 2007, credits the well-rounded nature of the college for helping to set...
April 27, 2023 | The College of Medicine at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) paid tribute to outstanding faculty and staff at the college’s annual Dean’s Honor Day celebration on April 25. Capping the ceremony, the 2023 Distinguished Faculty Service Award was presented to David L. Davies, Ph.D., a professor in the Department of Neurobiology and...
April 26, 2023 | LITTLE ROCK — Hong-yu Li, Ph.D., a researcher with the Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), recently received a five-year, $3.19 million grant from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) to work toward advancing therapeutic treatments for certain types of cancer. Li is the Helen Adams and Arkansas...
April 25, 2023 | LITTLE ROCK — The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) College of Medicine invested Laura B. Dunn, M.D., in the Marie Wilson Howells Chair in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences during an April 20 ceremony. Dunn, who joined UAMS in February 2022 as chair of the UAMS Department of Psychiatry and director of the UAMS...