Nov. 9, 2021 | More than 350 Arkansans attended the Health & Wellness Expo, held Oct. 30, at the Statehouse Convention Center in downtown Little Rock. The annual event, sponsored by UAMS and presented by the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, was rebranded from the Senior Expo to present health and wellness information for all Arkansans. Expo attendees took advantage of multiple...
Nov. 8, 2021 | Beginning Nov. 9, the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) and Arkansas Children’s will offer pediatric COVID-19 vaccines for children ages 5 to 11 at the UAMS Vaccine Clinic at 401 S. Monroe St. in Little Rock.
Nov. 5, 2021 | In October, the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) welcomed the 2021 John N. Insall Traveling Fellows for a two-day program hosted by the College of Medicine’s Department of Orthopaedic Surgery.
Nov. 4, 2021 | The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Human Research Protection Program was fully accredited recently for another five years by the Association for the Accreditation of Human Research Protection Programs (AAHRPP). UAMS became one of the first 25 institutions in the United States to receive the accreditation in 2005 and has maintained it since...
Nov. 2, 2021 | The UAMS Community Health and Research (UAMS CHR) Family Wellness program recently graduated its first participant in the Fatherhood FIRE education course. Through Fatherhood FIRE (which stands for Family Focused, Interconnected, Resilient, Essential), Family Wellness staff work with fathers, couples and co-parents to ensure that every child is raised in a safe and nurturing environment...
Nov. 2, 2021 | LITTLE ROCK — The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences has selected Laura B. Dunn, M.D., as the next chair of the Department of Psychiatry in the UAMS College of Medicine and director of the Psychiatric Research Institute.
Nov. 1, 2021 | LITTLE ROCK — Prasad Padala, M.D., M.S., FACHE, a professor in the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Department of Psychiatry, has accepted the position of program director of UAMS’ new collaborative psychiatry residency program with Baptist Health.
Nov. 1, 2021 | A drug discovered at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) to counter the effects of methamphetamine will be tested in a phase 2 clinical trial as the only potential treatment of its kind for methamphetamine use disorder.
Oct. 29, 2021 | Arkansas Democrat-Gazette readers voted the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) the Best Company to Work for >250 in the 2021 Best of the Best awards, while the university’s Interventional Pain Management clinic won for Best Pain Care Clinic.
Oct. 28, 2021 | LITTLE ROCK — The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) and its affiliate research institutions saw research funding grow by 12.2% this past year, with $177.4 million in grants by the end of the fiscal year on June 30. It is the second consecutive year with double-digit increases in research funding that comes from...