Oct. 7, 2020 | In a spacious room on the bottom floor of the Donald W. Reynold’s Institute on Aging, fitness instructor Kellie Coleman stands in front of a camera. She begins leading about a dozen people through an hour-long exercise class for patients living with Parkinson’s disease (PD). “Next, get on the edge of your chair, rotate your...
Oct. 6, 2020 | Making, watching and posting videos on the internet may sound like the farthest thing from work. But for Riley Sanders, M.D., a vitreoretinal surgery fellow at the UAMS Harvey & Bernice Jones Eye Institute, making internet videos is helping advance the field of ophthalmology. Sanders has recently had almost a dozen videos he has made...
Oct. 6, 2020 | A UAMS nurse researcher has found that women’s awareness of the dangers of heart disease has declined significantly over the past decade. Jean McSweeney, Ph.D., RN, professor emerita in the UAMS College of Nursing, was among a dozen co-authors of the research paper, published in September by the American Heart Association’s flagship journal Circulation. “Heart...
Oct. 2, 2020 | UAMS geriatrician Priya Mendiratta, M.D., wants to brighten the lives of older adults who are isolated at home during the COVID-19 pandemic. She and some students have an idea for how to do that. “In the nursing home, for the first one or two months of the pandemic when we didn’t go in, I noticed...
Oct. 1, 2020 | The early days of the COVID-19 pandemic closed most everything, including doctor’s offices, giving many people free time to learn new skills. Internet videos on making sourdough bread raked in viewers. But the residents in training at the Harvey & Bernice Jones Eye Institute, though unable to see patients, spent their time online learning skills...
Sept. 30, 2020 | The quality of care for stroke patients at UAMS was recognized today in an online awards celebration hosted by the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association. The UAMS Stroke Program was noted for recent accomplishments, including Get with the Guidelines Target Stroke Honor Roll Gold Plus award, and its certification by The Joint Commission as central...
Sept. 29, 2020 | LITTLE ROCK —New research at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) shows that while transparent masks and face shields aid in communication by restoring the visibility of the mouth and the lips, they muffle the sounds made by the speaker more than other masks do.
Sept. 23, 2020 | The Department of Physician Assistant Studies in the College of Health Professions celebrated the Class of 2022 with a virtual white coat ceremony Sept. 17.
Sept. 22, 2020 | For even the most accomplished surgeons, advanced nurses or brilliant researchers, their journey toward health sciences began somewhere, and a new campus exhibit explores the origin of many of those careers: toys and games. The exhibit is located in the Central Building near the College of Medicine administrative offices “There’s a board game there called...
Sept. 21, 2020 | LITTLE ROCK — David Caldwell, Pharm.D, of the College of Pharmacy at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) recently was selected by the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy for its Academic Leadership Fellows Program. Caldwell, the new associate dean of academic affairs in the College of Pharmacy, was one of 24 members...