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Faculty, staff and students from throughout UAMS participated in the CAPS facilitator training.

Workshop Trains Facilitators for Poverty Simulation and Effects on Health

Nov. 29, 2019 | Experiencing poverty and its effects on a person’s health was the focus of a two-day training workshop at UAMS to help health care providers better relate to patients and possible barriers to treatment. Students, faculty and staff from across UAMS, including the main campus and regional campuses, participated in the Community Action Poverty Simulation Nov....

Epilepsy Symposium

UAMS’ First Epilepsy Symposium Highlights Latest Advances

Nov. 26, 2019 | About 45 health care professionals and patients met Nov. 16 to discuss the latest advances in the diagnosis and treatment of epilepsy and seizure disorders at Arkansas’ first Epilepsy Symposium at UAMS. Epilepsy is a common and serious neurological condition that affects over 50 million people worldwide. Epilepsy specialist and UAMS neurosurgeon Viktoras Palys, M.D....

Rosa Ruvalcaba Serna

Senior Rosa Ruvalcaba Serna named Arkansas Nursing Student of the Year

Nov. 25, 2019 | UAMS College of Nursing senior Rosa Ruvalcaba Serna has been named the Arkansas Nursing Students’ Association (ANSA) Student of the Year. The award was presented last month at the ANSA state convention. “When Erin Salter, one of my classmates, told me I’d been selected, I started getting teary-eyed, because I was not expecting it,” said...

Laurie Hughes, M.D., (right) a retired orthopaedic surgeon, assists female high school students as they make repairs to simulated bones and joints.

UAMS’ Female Orthopaedic Surgeons Pay it Forward

Nov. 22, 2019 | Thirty-five high school girls from across Arkansas spent a recent Saturday at UAMS wielding power tools. They drilled, sawed and hammered simulated bones (sawbones) in sessions that included casting, suturing, and repairing broken bones, torn knee ligaments and rotator cuffs. As part of the Perry Outreach Program, the students, selected from about 100 applicants based...

UAMS Chancellor Cam Patterson, left, speaks at the start of the groundbreaking ceremony for a $150 million energy project as UA Board of Trustees Chair John Goodson, Christina Clark, UAMS chief operating officer and Little Rock Mayor Frank Scott Jr. wait to address attendees.

UAMS Breaks Ground on a more than $150 Million Energy Project at Main Campus

Nov. 20, 2019 | The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) broke ground today in a ceremony marking the start of a more than $150 million energy project, including a new $49 million electrical power plant. The project is being paid for by a bond issue approved this year by the University of Arkansas Board of Trustees. Shovels...

UAMS College of Nursing's Sara Jones, Ph.D., and professional mentor Susie Adams, Ph.D., of Vanderbilt School of Nursing, attending the ceremony at which Jones was inducted as a Fellow in the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners.

Sara Jones Named American Academy of Nurse Practitioners Fellow

Nov. 19, 2019 | Sara Jones, Ph.D., APRN, assistant professor in the UAMS College of Nursing, has become the third nursing faculty member at UAMS to be named as a Fellow of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners (AANP). Jones is the coordinator for the psychiatric mental health specialty in the college’s nurse practitioner program, “Becoming a Fellow in...

Geoffrey Curran, Ph.D., announces the first cohort of Implementation Science Scholars during the recent TRI strategic planning retreat.

UAMS Awards to Help Doctors Get Research Findings into Practice

Nov. 18, 2019 | The UAMS Translational Research Institute (TRI) and the Center for Implementation Research (CIR) have selected five UAMS/ACH clinical faculty as its first class of Implementation Science Scholars. Implementation science is the study of methods to promote the uptake of research findings into medical practice. Using the principles of implementation science, CIR faculty will guide the...

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