May 20, 2020 | In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, summer outreach programs of the UAMS Division for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion have been moved online. The programs, designed to cultivate an interest in health sciences among up-and-coming students from kindergarten to undergraduate levels, particularly underrepresented minority students, include the DDEI STEM Academy, the Academy of Pre-Health Scholars and...
May 20, 2020 | LITTLE ROCK — Two grants totaling $210,848 from the Blue & You Foundation for a Healthier Arkansas will significantly boost the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences’ (UAMS) efforts to combat the COVID-19 pandemic and slow the spread of infection. The grants are part of a $1.7 million special funding program by the foundation, a...
May 18, 2020 | Degrees and certificates were conferred to 914 graduates of the University of Arkansas Medical Sciences’ (UAMS) five colleges and graduate school on May 16. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, no commencement ceremony was held. A digital commencement program can be found here. Degrees were awarded to 165 in the College of Medicine, 255 in the...
May 18, 2020 | Tiffany Huitt, Ph.D., has received the Chancellor’s Teaching Award for Teaching Excellence at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS). Huitt is director of research and an associate professor in the Department of Physician Assistant Studies in the UAMS College of Health Professions. “Dr. Huitt is a model of excellence in education and scholarship...
May 15, 2020 | Homeless and jobless in Hot Springs, Clarence Taylor got something from the UAMS Triage Unit’s mobile team he has wanted for several weeks: screening and testing for COVID-19. The team conducted drive-thru evaluations in Hot Springs on April 11, Dumas on April 12 and Brinkley on April 13 to assess whether residents in those areas...
May 14, 2020 | While thousands of professional meetings nationwide were being canceled or postponed because of the health risks from COVID-19, the organizers at UAMS of the annual POWER meeting April 27-28 did what they are so experienced at, moving the in-person experience into the online virtual. “We said, ‘The show is going to go on.’ We are...
May 14, 2020 | For people living with behavioral health issues, the COVID-19 pandemic has brought new challenges to maintaining well-adjusted lives. Imagine this scenario. A man living out of state returns to his Arkansas home to run errands for his aging parents, thus helping protect them from exposure to the virus. Before moving home, his bipolar disorder was...
May 14, 2020 | FAYETTEVILLE – With funding from the Walmart Foundation, the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Northwest Regional Campus is working with the Arkansas Community Foundation to address gaps in food access. The funding will also help UAMS address gaps in health care services in underserviced populations during the COVID-19 pandemic. UAMS received a $375,000...
May 13, 2020 | The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) has developed guidelines to help high school and collegiate sports teams plan to safely resume activities during the COVID-19 pandemic. The UAMS COVID19 Sports Committee that drafted the recommendations and considerations included experts from sports medicine, orthopaedic surgery, family medicine, pathology and infectious disease. “Our experts developed...
May 12, 2020 | The UAMS Translational Research Institute has selected three early-career researchers to receive KL2 Mentored Research Career Development Awards. The KL2 program, co-led by Elisabet Borsheim, Ph.D., and Brooks Gentry, M.D., provides two years of research training to promising junior faculty. It provides 75 percent salary support and up to $25,000 per year for research, tuition,...