May 2, 2022 | FAYETTEVILLE – Researchers at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Office of Community Health & Research have found that Black Arkansans who reported racial discrimination in the criminal justice system also experienced higher levels of hesitancy toward COVID-19 vaccines. According to the Arkansas Department of Health, only around 41% of Black Arkansans five...
May 2, 2022 | The Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) has granted continued accreditation to the Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm.D.) program in the College of Pharmacy at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS). ACPE is recognized by the U.S. Department of Education as the national agency for the accreditation of professional degree programs in pharmacy. ACPE...
April 29, 2022 | Students from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences’ (UAMS) Fay W. Boozman College of Public Health organized a diaper drive after learning there were mothers in need of diapers and wipes for their babies. Taylor Washington, Todd Hamilton and Joanna Bartley are all members of the Master of Health Administration Student Association. The association...
April 29, 2022 | Some faculty members in the UAMS College of Health Professions have headed back to school — a role that gives them greater insight into their own students. About 20 professors and instructors out of 81 in the college are pursuing advanced degrees in postgraduate programs or have recently completed them.
April 28, 2022 | LITTLE ROCK — Kevin Sexton, M.D., a surgeon and entrepreneur, has been named president of BioVentures LLC, the technology licensing office and business incubator based at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS). Sexton, an associate professor in the College of Medicine Department of Surgery, became interim director in 2021 following the death of...
April 27, 2022 | LITTLE ROCK — Three grants in six months from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) are helping University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) researcher Hari Eswaran, Ph.D., explore promising noninvasive methods for diagnosing serious fetal health conditions. The grants total $4.4 million and support his pioneering work with sensor arrays that can reveal important...
April 25, 2022 | The Edith Irby Jones Chapter of Student National Medical Association at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) hosted the virtual 2022 Minority Association of Premedical Students conference.
April 22, 2022 | The morning of Saturday, April 9 was sunny, and Barmej Tibies had to wear special dark sunglasses to shield her healing eyes. But she felt like a movie star. Tibies and five other Marshallese patients from Northwest Arkansas received cataract surgeries April 8 as part of the UAMS Harvey & Bernice Jones Eye Institute’s second...
April 21, 2022 | Students in the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences’ College of Pharmacy collectively received more than 80 scholarships at the college’s Student Awards Ceremony, held April 6. “All students honored here today have worked exceptionally hard to meet the criteria established to earn these awards and scholarships,” said Brendan Frett, Ph.D., assistant professor and chair...
April 21, 2022 | The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) has received a $1,050,000 gift commitment from Primepares “Prime” G. Pal, M.D., to create a College of Medicine scholarship in honor of his late father. The Dr. Agaton P. Pal Scholarship is designed to support medical students with an academic background in the social sciences, or medical...