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Students from schools across the state take part in a sheep-brain dissection during the Find Your Future in Health Care event.

UAMS Program Stokes High School Students’ Interest in Health Careers

Nov. 19, 2025 | More than 1,100 high school students from dozens of schools across the state took part in the latest virtual Find Your Future in Health Care event, a University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) program that offers a closer look at a variety of health careers.

Image of a new mother sitting in a big soft chair holding her newborn wrapped in a blanket.

UAMS Begins Calling Postpartum Moms across Arkansas

Nov. 18, 2025 | Nurses at the Arkansas Center for Women & Infants’ Health at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) have started calling postpartum moms across Arkansas to ensure that they and their babies are off to a healthy start.

Katie McClanahan (center) and her husband thanked the UAMS Trauma Team, Trauma Team, Metropolitan Emergency Medical Services (MEMS) and the Little Rock Fire Department for saving her life.

Grateful Patient Thanks UAMS, MEMS, LRFD for Rescue, Encourages Blood Donations

Nov. 17, 2025 | LITTLE ROCK — Katie McClanahan, a 32-year-old wife and mother of two young children from midtown Little Rock, says she wouldn’t be alive to share her story without the extraordinary efforts of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Trauma Team, Metropolitan Emergency Medical Services (MEMS) and the Little Rock Fire Department.

White-coat portrait of Dr. Sriwastava with UAMS logo

Shitiz Sriwastava, M.D., Neuroimmunologist Specializing in MS, Joins UAMS

Nov. 17, 2025 | Shitiz Sriwastava, M.D., a neuroimmunologist with expertise in multiple sclerosis (MS) research and treatment, has joined the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) as an associate professor of neurology. The board-certified neurologist comes to UAMS from The University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston, and before that, West Virginia University in Morgantown, West...

Hughes

College of Public Health Alum Uses Legal System to Advocate for Access to Vaccines

Nov. 17, 2025 | Richard Hughes IV, J.D., MPH, seeks to improve the health of people throughout the nation. A native Arkansan, Hughes strives to reach his goal through advocating for the access and use of approved vaccines. “The way our health care system works regarding coverage for vaccines, the way we fund vaccines, the access to vaccines, there...

Barber Connect

Barber Connect Addresses Men’s Health and Celebrates Barbershop Talk Program

Nov. 13, 2025 | The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Fay W. Boozman College of Public Health Barbershop Talk research team recently hosted its first-ever Barber Connect. The Oct. 27 showcase took place at Little Rock’s Mosaic Templars Cultural Center. It gave barbers who participate in the Barbershop Talk program the chance to network, learn more about...

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