UAMS Medical Center Recognized as Center of Excellence for Childbirth Complication Placenta Accreta Spectrum

March 11, 2020 | The Maternal Safety Foundation has named the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Medical Center an Accreta Center of Excellence, recognizing its superior care for a life-threatening childbirth complication called placenta accreta spectrum disorder. UAMS Medical Center is the first hospital in the nation to receive the designation, which indicates that UAMS has both...

UAMS Students Introduce High School Visitors to Health Care Careers

March 10, 2020 | More than 80 UAMS student volunteers, mostly from the College of Medicine, welcomed dozens of high school students from across Arkansas to the UAMS main campus Feb. 22 to introduce them to careers in health care. The event, called Health Professions Recruitment and Exposure Program (HPREP) was presented by the UAMS chapter of the Student...

Teen Gets Body-Powered Arm at UAMS Amputee Clinic

March 10, 2020 | It was a great day for fishing in May almost two years ago when Bryce Cook, of Arkadelphia, who had just turned 16, headed toward the river on a side-by-side to pursue one of his favorite pastimes. By all accounts – his own, witnesses, subsequent police investigation – he wasn’t going fast when, as the...

UAMS Researchers Have COVID-19’s ‘Fingerprint’

March 9, 2020 | Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) has the attention of biomedical researchers across the globe, including at UAMS. Researchers at the UAMS Arkansas Center for Genomic Epidemiology & Medicine (ArC-GEM) are applying their comparative genomic analysis and sequencing prowess to the disease. The ArC-GEM team has also studied the Ebola virus, Zika virus, and the mumps outbreak...

Guest Lecture Addresses Bias toward Health Care Workers

March 4, 2020 | What should doctors, nurses or other health care providers do when a patient makes a request that seems discriminatory? Leon McDougle, M.D., M.P.H., chief diversity officer and professor at the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, was a guest of the UAMS Division for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion to discuss precisely that situation in a...

Aerospace Medicine Expert to Give Distinguished Lecture March 10

March 3, 2020 | The public is invited to hear a free lecture from Jonathan B. Clark, M.D. — an expert in aerospace medicine who has served numerous roles for NASA and the U.S. Navy — at 12:30 p.m. March 10 at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS). Clark will present “Touch the Future: Research, Medicine and...

E-Cigarette Expert Warns of Health Issues, Advocates Flavor Ban

March 3, 2020 | E-cigarettes are likely bad for human health and state and local governments should help prevent the spread of their use, especially among young people, by adopting bans on flavored nicotine products. That was the takeaway message from Stanton Glantz, Ph.D., a tobacco control  researcher and the featured speaker Feb. 13 at the UAMS Winthrop P....

Surgeon First in U.S. to Perform New Hysterectomy Surgery

March 2, 2020 | Alexander Burnett, M.D., a gynecologic surgeon at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), is one of only a handful of surgeons worldwide and the first in the United States at the cutting edge of a new scarless and almost painless technique for hysterectomy.

Breastfeeding Program for Incarcerated Women Secures Donation from Medela

March 2, 2020 | Incarcerated women who are new breastfeeding moms at the J. Aaron Hawkins Sr. Center in Wrightsville, Arkansas, will have access to over 200 pounds of breastfeeding supplies recently donated by Medela, a leading manufacturer of breast pumps in the United States. The donation came about through UAMS’ partnership with the Hawkins’ Growing Together program. Growing...

UAMS Earns Bronze Award among Military Friendly Schools

Feb. 25, 2020 | UAMS was one of only two schools in Arkansas to earn a Bronze Award on the 2020 Military Friendly Schools list published by VIQTORY, a veteran-owned small business that connects veterans to civilian business and educational opportunities. “As a veteran myself, I’m gratified to see UAMS honored for the special attention it pays to those...