Dec. 3, 2019 | Reading to babies not only helps the family of premature infants bond to one another, it aids in advancing brain development and language skills. That’s why the UAMS neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) recently organized its first Read-A-Thon with patients and their families. The weeklong event lead up to World Prematurity Day, Nov. 17. There...
Dec. 2, 2019 | Whether new technology in digital health enhances the performance of health care professionals or improves patient outcomes are the ‘human factors’ that need to be central to the development of digital health, Elizabeth Krupinski, Ph.D., said. A professor and vice chair of research in Radiology & Imaging Sciences at Emory University in Atlanta, Kurpinski was...
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....
Nov. 27, 2019 | Scientists conducting cancer research in the lab, clinic and community gathered Nov. 20 at the 26th UAMS Showcase of Medical Discoveries to share their projects and discuss ways to work together.
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....
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...
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...
Nov. 22, 2019 | For some faculty members in the College of Health Profession, their roots at UAMS go deep — all the way back to when they were students themselves.
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...
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...