Aug. 12, 2019 | The president of the Lions Club International Foundation visited UAMS on Aug. 5 to present an award of $61,000 to UAMS Regional Campuses, which is working with the UAMS Harvey & Bernice Jones Eye Institute to provide vision screenings to all Arkansans with diabetes. Jung-Yul Choi, of Busan, Republic of Korea, was welcomed to campus...
Aug. 9, 2019 | A $1 million grant to the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) from Arkansas Blue Cross and Blue Shield will enable the UAMS Institute for Digital Health & Innovation to advance digital health statewide to provide patients better and more streamlined access to health care. The grant was announced today as leaders from UAMS...
Aug. 8, 2019 | Aug. 8, 2019 | The UAMS Institute for Digital Health & Innovation Obstetrics Program has gotten the attention of U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar and of several states interested in duplicating them or using them to improve rural health care. In early July, Curtis Lowery, M.D., director of the Institute for...
Aug. 8, 2019 | LITTLE ROCK — Brian Walker, Ph.D., with the Myeloma Center at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) has received a $542,486, three-year grant from the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society to look at changes in the DNA sequence that effects the development and advancement of multiple myeloma, a cancer of plasma cells in the...
Aug. 7, 2019 | Five UAMS medical students spent a week of their summer helping 13 high school students learn about brain science and STEM careers at CampNeuro. This is the fourth year that UAMS has hosted CampNeuro, which is administered by a national organization but planned, organized and taught by students and faculty at the host sites. The...
Aug. 6, 2019 | The Head Start/Early Head Start Program in Pulaski County, which has been administered by the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Department of Pediatrics since 1998, has received a grant of $41 million from U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The grant will be used to operate the program and is structured to...
Aug. 6, 2019 | Learning by doing and reinforcing concepts through presentation — those practices were the core lessons on display at the eighth annual Central Arkansas Undergraduate Summer Research Symposium at UAMS. About 115 undergraduate students from across Arkansas and the nation gathered in the I. Dodd Wilson Education Building to give poster presentations and oral presentations on...
Aug. 5, 2019 | A rising college senior, Huddoy Walters’ sights are set on a career in biomedical research. “I want to be a scientist, most definitely,” said Walters, a native Jamaican and biochemistry major at the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff.
Aug. 2, 2019 | The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) has received a $100,000 gift from the estate of Ambrose T. Walker Jr., M.D. to enhance the A.T. and Gladys Walker Memorial Scholarship in the UAMS College of Medicine. “We are profoundly grateful for the enduring generosity of the late Dr. Walker and his family,” said Christopher...
July 31, 2019 | The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) has received two grants totaling almost $29,000 to launch a free exercise program for people with Parkinson’s disease and Parkinsonism. The Parkinson’s Foundation provided $13,924.59 to train, staff and support the program, and the Philip R. Jonsson Foundation of Little Rock provided $15,000 for the equipment. “Treating...