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The UAMS Stroke Program care team with the Get with the Guidelines Target: Stroke Honor Roll Gold Plus award.

UAMS Stroke Care Celebrated by American Heart Association

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...

New research by Samuel Atcherson, Ph.D.,shows that transparent masks and face shields muffle sounds more than other masks do.

UAMS Research Shows Transparent Face Shields Significantly Muffle Sounds

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.

Different versions of the classic board game Operation are included in the exhibit.

New Exhibit Features Toys That Inspire Health Professions

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...

David Caldwell

David Caldwell, Pharm.D., Chosen for National Pharmacy Leadership Program

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...

Byron Johnson at the podium

Pharmacy Senior from Bahamas Finds Family at UAMS

Sept. 18, 2020 | Fourth-year pharmacy student Byron Johnson found more than an education at UAMS, he found family. Johnson told his story to the Board of Trustees of the University of Arkansas, which oversees UAMS, at its September meeting. Johnson is from Freeport, Bahamas, which was decimated by Hurricane Dorian in 2019. His aunt and cousin died, and...

Ashlyn Tedder, left, smiles as a family member of a first-year College of Pharmacy student assists her in putting on her white coat. Tedder is a third-year pharmacy student and the president of the UAMS Chapter of the APhA-Academy of Student Pharmacists.

Diverse College of Pharmacy Class of 2024 Dons White Coats

Sept. 18, 2020 | The UAMS College of Pharmacy Class of 2024 donned white coats Sept. 5 in a virtual ceremony that still honored the right of passage signifying a pharmacy student’s transition into the life of a student-pharmacist. This year’s annual White Coat Ceremony, had one of the highest percentages of underrepresented minorities in the college’s history, nearly...

Pitts graduated from Jonesboro High School and received her undergraduate degree from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville. Much of her family lives in Arkansas, where she grew up in Jonesboro and spent summers in Batesville and Cave City. She intends to pursue a career in internal medicine in Jonesboro or elsewhere in northern Arkansas.

Jonesboro Resident Lillie Pitts Receives Scholarship to Pursue Primary Care in Rural Arkansas

Sept. 18, 2020 | Lillie Pitts of Jonesboro, a junior medical student at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), has been awarded a $20,000 Arkansas Blue Cross and Blue Shield Primary Care Scholarship, which encourages aspiring physicians to pursue primary care practices in rural Arkansas. Pitts graduated from Jonesboro High School and received her undergraduate degree from...

Rice graduated from Genoa Central High School and received her undergraduate degree from Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas. She is the only living college graduate in her immediate family. She intends to pursue a career in general pediatrics in southwest Arkansas.

Texarkana Resident Kristen Rice Receives Scholarship to Pursue Primary Care in Rural Arkansas

Sept. 18, 2020 | Kristen Rice of Texarkana, a junior medical student at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), has been awarded a $20,000 Arkansas Blue Cross and Blue Shield Primary Care Scholarship, which encourages aspiring physicians to pursue primary care practices in rural Arkansas. Rice graduated from Genoa Central High School and received her undergraduate degree...

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