April 28, 2020 | Helping a child identify emotions, enabling a home visitor to effectively work with a family, inspiring children to explore healthy foods, coaching a childcare facility through improving targeted goals — these are all things the early childhood education programs at UAMS did in person before March 2020. In a matter of weeks, the Research &...
April 28, 2020 | The UAMS College of Nursing has received a two-year, $250,000 grant from the Hearst Foundation to educate the next generation of doctorally prepared nursing professionals for roles as nurse scientists, college and university nursing faculty members and administrators, and clinical leaders who are educating nursing students. The funds will help defray the educational costs and...
April 27, 2020 | James Fletcher, M.D., of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), has earned the designation Fellow of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine.
April 24, 2020 | The UAMS Mobile Triage Unit had its busiest week yet, providing COVID-19 drive-thru evaluations to more than 300 Arkansas residents in four cities: McGehee, Marianna, East Camden and Forrest City. “In these more rural locations, the patients and communities are very welcoming. We are serving an important need,” said Jennifer Hunt, M.D., who leads the...
April 24, 2020 | The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Division of Research and Innovation today announced six recipients of its Time-Sensitive COVID-19 funding awards. The one-year grants of up to $50,000 each will enable the UAMS researchers and their collaborators to launch research projects that advance understanding of the COVID-19 pandemic, contribute to better clinical practices,...
April 24, 2020 | A UAMS College of Pharmacy alumnus saw a need and decided to do something about it. Lee (Leland) Turner (class of 2014) traveled to Santa Clara, Calif., at the beginning of April to volunteer with an emergency relief organization called Team Rubicon that is delivering care to recovering COVID-19 patients in Silicon Valley. A native...
April 22, 2020 | Greg Robinson, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, felt honored when his colleagues nominated him for the Dr. Edith Irby Jones Excellence in Diversity and Inclusion Award for faculty.
April 22, 2020 | UAMS HealthNow has resumed taking virtual urgent care visits from Arkansas patients in addition to still offering free screenings for all Arkansans who have questions about whether they may have the coronavirus that causes COVID-19.
April 21, 2020 | Megan Witzke, R.N., didn’t wait a New York minute to get in touch with her team once she read the names of the other UAMS nurses with whom she would be traveling to help treat COVID-19 patients.
April 20, 2020 | A room once intended for isolating patients in distress has become a favorite of the UAMS Psychiatric Research Institute’s youngest charges, thanks to the addition of a number of components designed to both calm and stimulate them. The Child Diagnostic Unit, an inpatient unit for patients 2 to 12 years old, was intended to be...