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Renee Joiner, AR SAVES director, right, Sanjeeva Reddy Onteddu, M.D., AR SAVES medical director, and Ken Kelly, CEO of ProMed ambulance company in El Dorado, stand in October in front of Medical Center of South Arkansas, an AR SAVES network site.

UAMS-Led Stroke Program Helps Lower Arkansas to Seventh in Stroke Deaths among All States

March 7, 2019 | Arkansas recently fell from sixth to seventh place in the nation in the number of stroke deaths per capita, a huge improvement that health officials credit in part to a statewide telemedicine program of stroke education and treatment led by the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS). Only four years ago, Arkansas still was...

Chancellor Patterson speaks at the awards ceremony. Twelve UAMS programs received grants totaling $425,000.

Twelve Programs Receive Grants from UAMS Chancellor’s Circle

March 6, 2019 | UAMS Chancellor Cam Patterson, M.D., MBA, awarded 12 program grants totaling a record-tying $425,000 at the annual Chancellor’s Circle Grant Awards ceremony and reception held March 5. The funds awarded match the record set last year by the Chancellor’s Circle, which provides funds to support key mission areas in health care education, research and patient...

Brian Mitchell, Ph.D., delivers a lecture on the expulsion of free blacks from Arkansas in 1860.

History Professor Talks 1860 Expulsion of Free Blacks for Black History Month

March 5, 2019 | Dozens attended a celebration held to conclude Black History Month hosted by the UAMS Center for Diversity Affairs, which featured musical entertainment and a lecture. “Given the way things are in our society, we need to become more proactive and aggressive in addressing some of the issues that go on around us,” said Billy Thomas,...

April Hughes standing next to her favorite elements in the exhibit, including a photo taken with Edith Irby Jones and a photo of Jones meeting Martin Luther King, Jr.

Exhibit Features History of Minority Students, Faculty at UAMS

March 1, 2019 | Numerous achievements of minorities over the past 70 years of UAMS history, as well as photographs and artifacts that tell the story of minority health care in Arkansas before the end of Jim Crow are on display in a new historical exhibit across from the College of Medicine. The exhibit is sponsored by the UAMS...

Expo volunteers (from left) Margaret Woods, Ronda Henry-Tillman, M.D., and her son Anders Tillman in front of the UAMS MammoVan.

Black Expo Offers Health, Entertainment and Shopping

Feb. 27, 2019 | UAMS provided health screenings along with health education at the 15th Annual Midsouth Summit Black Expo held Feb. 23 at the Little Rock Metroplex. The expo, presented by UAMS, brought together a community of entertainers, health institutions, businesses and other organizations to celebrate Black History Month.

Thidathip (Tip) Wongsurawat, Ph.D., with the hand-held nanopore device used for the first time to sequence multiple viruses.

UAMS Researchers Lead First Rapid Sequencing of Multiple Viruses Using Pocket-Sized Device

Feb. 27, 2019 | An international team of researchers led by the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) is the first to deploy a pocket-sized nanopore device for rapid genetic sequencing of multiple human viruses. The findings are published in the journal Frontiers in Microbiology, the world’s most cited microbiology journal. UAMS’ Thidathip (Tip) Wongsurawat, Ph.D., and Piroon...

UAMS Study Shows Schools Lowered Sodium Content of Lunches by 11.2 Percent

Feb. 26, 2019 | FAYETTEVILLE – Public schools in Springdale have lowered the sodium content of school lunches by 11.2 percent, research by the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) shows. In an article in “Preventing Chronic Disease,” published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), researchers from the UAMS Northwest Regional Campus outlined the progress...

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