CHP Respiratory Therapy Program Featured on KATV
July 10, 2020 | Our Respiratory Therapy program was featured on KATV in February. Click the button to watch the segment!
University News
ENT Residents Score Among Top in Nation at In-Service Exam
July 8, 2020 | After setting a goal to best themselves, the residents in the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery ended up besting most of the nation at this year’s in-service exam. UAMS scored in the top three or four among the 100-plus ENT residency programs in the nation. The in-service exams for each specialty are good practice...
UAMS Partners with Nationwide Program to Use Statistics on Orthopaedic Outcomes to Help Determine Care
July 2, 2020 | The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) is now a partner site in a nationwide effort to improve care for orthopaedic conditions by using statistics on outcomes that can help monitor a response to surgery and maybe help determine if a procedure is right for them. The Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS) was...
COVID-19 Testing Draws Hundreds to North Little Rock Drive-thru
July 2, 2020 | The UAMS Mobile Triage team offered COVID-19 testing to anyone who came to their drive-thru June 30 at Shorter College in North Little Rock, and hundreds of people showed up in response. For a brief time before police could reroute the vehicles, cars and trucks were backed up onto the nearest Interstate 30 off ramp....
College of Pharmacy Residents, Fellows Graduate Despite Challenging Year
July 1, 2020 | Mark Granberry, Pharm.D., opened the 2020 graduation ceremony June 26 for the UAMS College of Pharmacy residents and fellows with an apology to his ninth-grade English teacher. The teacher, Michael Moran, taught him never to use the phrase “more unique” because “unique” means one of a kind, and nothing can be more than one of...
UAMS First in Arkansas to Use ExcelsiusGPS for Robot-Assisted Spinal Surgery
July 1, 2020 | UAMS Medical Center is the first hospital in Arkansas to operate with the ExcelsiusGPS robotic spine navigation system that helps improve accuracy and reduce the invasiveness of spinal surgery. Both the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Department of Neurosurgery use the new spine robot for patients needing spine surgery. Noojan Kazemi, M.D., an associate professor...
UAMS Awarded $940,000 by FCC to Help with COVID-19 Response Across the State
June 30, 2020 | The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) has received $940,000 from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for digital health technology to treat patients for COVID-19 and deliver medical information to patients and providers across the state.
UAMS to Aid $20 Million Statewide Effort to Build on Data Science Strengths
June 29, 2020 | LITTLE ROCK — The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) received $1.9 million from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to help the state establish a cyberinfrastructure platform that will improve on Arkansas’ existing data science strengths and competitiveness. The money is part of a five-year $20 million grant from NSF’s Established Program to Stimulate...
Students, Educators Transfer Teaching to Virtual Learning
June 26, 2020 | When UAMS sent students home March 13 for the rest of the school year to help prevent the spread of COVID-19, the College of Medicine quickly transitioned classroom instruction to online learning.
George and Linda Gleason Foundation Gives $100,000 for UAMS Psychiatric Research Institute, Department of Neurology
June 26, 2020 | The George and Linda Gleason Foundation has given $100,000 to the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), split evenly among the Department of Neurology in the College of Medicine and the Psychiatric Research Institute. The Gleasons were on hand Friday, June 19 to present a check to R. Lee Archer, M.D., chair of the...