April 14, 2025 | At this year’s American Pharmacists Association (APhA) annual meeting, the UAMS College of Pharmacy’s Academy of Student Pharmacists (ASP) chapter was named national runner-up in its division, and third-year student Hayden Wood was elected ASP speaker of the house. The college’s ASP student chapter has been named runner-up or division winner multiple times over the...
April 11, 2025 | LITTLE ROCK — The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) College of Pharmacy invested Corey J. Hayes, Pharm.D., Ph.D., MPH, a tenured associate professor in the UAMS Department of Pharmacy Practice, in the Office of Alcohol and Drug Abuse Prevention Professorship during an April 9 ceremony. “As I look across this room, I am...
April 11, 2025 | LITTLE ROCK — The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Institute for Community Health Innovation and its partners are continuing to build the state’s community health worker workforce following Gov. Sarah Sanders’ signing of House Bill 1258 on April 3, establishing the Community Health Worker Act. The act formally establishes the role of a...
April 10, 2025 | LITTLE ROCK — The Schmieding Foundation Inc., gifted $100,000 to the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) to create the Schmieding Foundation Physical Therapy Endowed Scholarship benefitting the UAMS College of Health Professions at the UAMS Northwest Regional Campus in Fayetteville. “With abundant growth in Northwest Arkansas comes plenty of challenges to the area’s...
April 9, 2025 | LITTLE ROCK — The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) recently became the first provider in Arkansas of NanoKnife technology, a new form of focal therapy for localized prostate cancer. Focal therapy is a minimally invasive outpatient procedure that uses different forms of energy to target only the area of the prostate where cancerous...
April 9, 2025 | Cytology students in the Class of 2025 donned their white coats for the first time March 21 and celebrated the completion of academic, classroom study and the start of their clinical learning in working laboratories.
April 8, 2025 | The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) colleges of Medicine, Nursing, Health Professions and Public Health rank among the top academic programs in U.S. News & World Report’s annual list of Best Graduate Schools for 2025. In the rankings released today, the UAMS College of Medicine is recognized as a Tier 1 school for...
April 7, 2025 | LITTLE ROCK — A free, public forum on Parkinson’s disease and Atypical Parkinsonism will be held April 13 at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS).
April 7, 2025 | The Myeloma Center, located in the Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), has firmly established itself as an international leader in myeloma treatment. From its beginnings in 1989, UAMS’ myeloma program is recognized for detailed patient care, groundbreaking research and pioneering advances in the management of myeloma...
April 4, 2025 | The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Fay W. Boozman of College of Public Health is using its Arkansas Prevention Research Center for Women’s Health to address the state’s high rates of maternal mortality. Established in September 2024, the center is funded by a five-year, $5 million grant from the Centers for Disease Control...