Aug. 30, 2021 | LITTLE ROCK — The first UAMS Baptist Health Cancer Center is now open on the campus of Baptist Health Medical Center in North Little Rock, bringing the full spectrum of cancer research, diagnostic and treatment services available at UAMS’ Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute to more Arkansans.
Aug. 30, 2021 | Luann Racher, M.D., an assistant professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), is the first physician in the state to obtain a focused practice designation for minimally invasive gynecologic surgery. The designation from the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology (ABOG) recognizes certified specialists who have additional surgical...
Aug. 27, 2021 | Among the 174 students comprising the College of Medicine’s Class of 2025 are the great-great-great granddaughter of UAMS’ founder, P.O. Hooper, M.D., and an Olympic Trials pole vaulter. Others have run their own businesses, labored in construction, edited newspapers and supervised air traffic controllers. Some have received U.S. Army medals or honors in scouting, mathematics,...
Aug. 27, 2021 | Lab Studies Gait Issues among Parkinson’s Patients LITTLE ROCK — The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) has received a $200,000 gift from the late Bob and Sara Lou Cargill to support care for patients with brain diseases. The gift will help support the Virmani Gait Laboratory, headed by Tuhin Virmani, M.D., Ph.D., co-director...
Aug. 26, 2021 | As the fall semester began, Robert McGehee, Ph.D., dean of the UAMS Graduate School, and other campus leaders recently welcomed new graduate students with an orientation on the first floor of the I. Dodd Wilson building. It was the first such in-person orientation the Graduate School has held since 2019. Nearly 30 of this year’s...
Aug. 26, 2021 | William J. Steinbach, M.D., will join the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) as chair of the Department of Pediatrics and associate dean for Child Health in the UAMS College of Medicine, as well as pediatrician-in-chief of Arkansas Children’s, effective Jan. 15, 2022. “We are thrilled to have Dr. Steinbach join UAMS as we...
Aug. 26, 2021 | College of Pharmacy alumna Pilar Murphy, Pharm.D., MPH, BCACP, has joined the Department of Pharmacy Practice as an associate professor. Murphy returns to UAMS after most recently serving as an associate professor at Samford University McWhorter School of Pharmacy since 2012. “I’m very excited. Coming back to UAMS and coming back home was always the...
Aug. 25, 2021 | Mayumi Nakagawa, M.D., Ph.D., was awarded $3.6 million from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) to complete phase 2 clinical trials of PepCan, a breakthrough vaccine she developed at UAMS to treat cancers caused by human papillomavirus (HPV).
Aug. 24, 2021 | Dean Cindy Stowe, Pharm.D., of the UAMS College of Pharmacy let out a sigh of relief before she officially greeted the Class of 2025 at the college’s first in-person orientation in two years. Her sigh represented the long-anticipated return of face-to-face classes and events. “This is amazing. My jaw is dropped if you can’t see...
Aug. 23, 2021 | The American Society for Pain and Neuroscience presented awards to Johnathan H. Goree, M.D., and Erika Petersen, M.D., both physicians at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), at its third annual national meeting July 22-25 in Miami Beach, Florida. Goree, director of UAMS’ Chronic Pain Division and program director of the Chronic Pain...