Cancer Biology Research Program Aims to Understand Basic Science of Tumor Development and Growth

April 29, 2020 | The Cancer Biology program at the UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute brings together investigators studying the basic biology of cancer at the molecular, cellular and in vivo levels. Program investigators use biochemical, genetic and other methodologies to study and understand the mechanisms of malignant transformation, tumor progression and tumor metastasis. Steven Post, Ph.D., professor in the...

Baptist Health-UAMS Family Medicine Residency Program Receives Full Accreditation

April 29, 2020 | The Baptist Health-UAMS Family Medicine Residency program has received a full accreditation from the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). The program was started in 2019 to provide more positions to train medical school graduates and address the physician shortage in Arkansas, especially in rural areas. Studies show that physicians are more likely to...

Participation Surges as Trainings Supporting Educators and Children Shift Online

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 &...

Grant Will Aid Doctoral Students at UAMS College of Nursing

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...

UAMS’ James Fletcher, M.D., Earns Fellow Status from the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine

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.

UAMS COVID-19 Mobile Triage Rolls into Four Arkansas Cities

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...

UAMS Names Time-Sensitive COVID-19 Grant Awardees

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,...

UAMS Pharmacy Alum Volunteers for COVID-19 Relief in California

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...

CHP Associate Professor ‘Honored’ by Diversity Award

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.

UAMS HealthNow Resumes Urgent Care Live Video Visits Along with COVID-19 Screenings, Calls

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.