April 5, 2022 | Julie Riley, M.D., has joined the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) as an associate professor in the College of Medicine Department of Urology. Riley also serves as the program director for the college’s urology residency program. “We are thrilled with the addition of Dr. Riley to our faculty,” said Timothy Langford, M.D., chairman...
April 4, 2022 | Four interdisciplinary groups of researchers in the College of Medicine at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) have been named as inaugural “Creativity Hubs” in an initiative to develop and expand collaborative, thematic research programs with high potential. Each hub will receive $300,000 over the next 18 months to jumpstart efforts to increase...
April 1, 2022 | Raymond Otoo was just starting the second day of a free three-day genomics workshop at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), but he was already seeing its value. “This workshop is great for adding knowledge to my existing repertoire of bioinformatics,” he said during a break as attendees from schools across the state...
March 31, 2022 | LITTLE ROCK — The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) was named a 2022 Top Performer in the Human Rights Campaign’s Healthcare Equality Index.
March 28, 2022 | The UAMS College of Pharmacy held its annual Academy of Student Pharmacists Professional Pinning Ceremony on March 4, celebrating third-year students as they transition from in-class instruction to direct patient care for their final year of pharmacy school. After two years of virtual festivities due to the COVID-19 pandemic, students masked up and gathered in...
March 25, 2022 | The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Division for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion hosted a virtual event to discuss Dream Land, a documentary about Little Rock’s West Ninth Street and how urban renewal shaped the Black community.
March 24, 2022 | Benjamin Teeter, Ph.D., an assistant professor in the UAMS College of Pharmacy, and his collaborators won the 2021 Best Paper Award in Exploratory Research in Clinical and Social Pharmacy (ERCSP). The publication, “Perceptions of HPV Vaccination and Pharmacist-Physician Collaboration Models to Improve HPV Vaccination Rates,” is part of a growing body of research into implementing...
March 24, 2022 | The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) has appointed Tracie Harrison, Ph.D., RN, FAAN, FGSA, as the holder of the new endowed Alice An-Loh Sun Chair in Geriatric Nursing for the College of Nursing.
March 23, 2022 | University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) experts in technology and anatomy teamed up March 2 to take a group of high school sophomores on a virtual journey through the heart. The 39 sophomores who participated were members of the American Heart Association’s Sweetheart Program, which for 15 years has been educating high school girls...
March 22, 2022 | Since late November, UAMS dental hygiene students have given dozens of Afghan refugees something many of them have never before received – dental care.