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A Day of Remembrance ceremony was held Oct. 20 to honor the more than 200 perinatal losses at UAMS Medical Center during the past year.

UAMS Ceremony Honors Infant and Pregnancy Loss

Nov. 3, 2022 | The setting sun and the tranquil fountain outside the entrance to the Psychiatric Research Institute provided the backdrop for a moving ceremony Oct. 20, honoring the more than 200 perinatal losses at UAMS Medical Center during the past year.

Maria Neal, Ainsley Moran

UAMS College of Pharmacy Students Organize 2nd Annual Bone Marrow Registry Drive

Nov. 2, 2022 | University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) College of Pharmacy students donned scrubs and blue surgical gloves Oct. 17 as volunteers for a good cause: registering possible bone marrow donors for patients in need of lifesaving care. It was part of the second annual Be the Match donor registration event put on by UAMS students....

Thea Rosenbaum (from left), chief clinical transformation officer for UAMS Health; Michelle Krause, interim CEO of the UAMS Medical Center and interim senior vice chancellor for UAMS Health; Stephanie Gardner, UAMS provost and chief strategy officer; and Brian Gittens, vice chancellor of the Division for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion were among the campus leaders who attended the Pride Celebration.

UAMS Holds Pride Celebration in Support of LGBTQ Community

Nov. 2, 2022 | The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) capped a series of Pride events in October with a celebration of the campus’s commitment to the LGBTQ community. The LGBTQ+ Subcommittee of the UAMS Division for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DDEI) hosted the event, an informal affair where students and faculty members mingled over lunch and...

Melodee Harris (from left), associate professor in the UAMS College of Nursing and co-director of the Arkansas Hartford Center of Geriatric Nursing Excellence, is shown with Mark Herbst, program manager for the UAMS Centers on Aging, and Amy Leigh Overton-McCoy, assistant professor in the UAMS College of Medicine and director of the Centers on Aging.

UAMS Partnership Receives Two Awards to Address Suicide, Food Insecurity among Older Adults

Nov. 2, 2022 | LITTLE ROCK — A University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) partnership involving the Donald W. Reynolds Institute on Aging, Centers on Aging, College of Nursing and the Arkansas Hartford Center of Geriatric Nursing Excellence has received a total of $550,000 in awards for programs that address food insecurity and suicide among older adults. The...

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UAMS Fay W. Boozman College of Public Health Doctoral Student Uses Hometown Inspiration to Make Academic Achievement

Oct. 31, 2022 | Shun Ingram — a doctoral student in the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Fay W. Boozman College of Public Health, Health Promotion and Prevention Research Program — has earned the prestigious Southern Region Educational Board-State Doctoral Scholars Program Award. “It’s a highly competitive scholarship,” he said. “It relieves some of the financial burden of...

Noojan Kazemi, M.D., performs a prone lateral lumbar fusion as Professor Greg Malham observes.

UAMS Hosts Australian Neurosurgeon for Demonstration of Innovative Robotic Spine Surgery

Oct. 31, 2022 | UAMS Serves as Teaching and Observation Site for Robotic Spine Surgery LITTLE ROCK — The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) welcomed Professor Greg Malham, BSc, MB ChB, director of spine surgery at Epworth Hospital in Melbourne, Australia, as the first visiting international surgeon to observe a procedure that uses an innovative technique for...

Jeffrey DeSantis, educational coordinator for the physician’s assistant program in the College of Health Professions, talks about the problems that colorblind people experience in the workplace and in everyday life.

UAMS Webinar Offers Ideas to Make Information Accessible for People with Disabilities

Oct. 28, 2022 | The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) marked National Disability Employment Awareness Month with a virtual seminar that showed employees how to present information in a way that is more accessible for those with disabilities. The Disability Subcommittee of the UAMS Division for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DDEI) hosted the event, titled “Disability Through...

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UAMS Receives Perinatal Care Certification from The Joint Commission

Oct. 27, 2022 | LITTLE ROCK — The Joint Commission awarded its Gold Seal of Approval for Perinatal Care Certification to the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), demonstrating that UAMS has met and exceeded strict standards of care for maternal, fetal and newborn health. UAMS is the first hospital in Central Arkansas and one of 66 hospitals...

Four faculty at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences have been awarded grants from the Arkansas Breast Cancer Research Program to further their breast cancer studies

Four UAMS Researchers Receive Arkansas Breast Cancer Research 25th Anniversary Grants

Oct. 27, 2022 | The Arkansas Breast Cancer Research Program is celebrating its 25th year of funding breakthrough research by Arkansas scientists studying breast cancer. Since the program’s inception in 1997 with the passage of The Arkansas Breast Cancer Act, the annual grants program has awarded nearly $10 million in direct research support. UAMS administers the program. “Twenty-five years...

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