Oct. 31, 2018 | Breast cancer treatments have improved dramatically over the last 20 years, with UAMS surgical pioneers such as V. Suzanne Klimberg, M.D., Ph.D., and Isabel T. Rubio, M.D., Ph.D., helping lead the way. Rubio, of Madrid, Spain, spent time at UAMS starting in 1996 as a Virginia Clinton Breast Oncology Fellow. She recently shared some of...
Oct. 30, 2018 | Oct. 30, 2018 | For the second year in a row, a team of cyclists organized by the UAMS Myeloma Center, including patients, relatives, friends, supporters and at least 24 UAMS employees, rode in the second annual event Ride for Research on Sept. 29 to raise awareness of and more than $30,000 for research of...
Oct. 29, 2018 | The Baptist Health – University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Medical Education Program is now recruiting residents for two residency programs set to launch next summer in Internal Medicine and Family Medicine. The three-year programs, which train up to 12 residents per year in each as part of a partnership between Baptist Health and...
Oct. 26, 2018 | People with frequent and recurring pain from an amputated leg are being enrolled in a University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) research study of a device designed to reduce amputation pain. Led at UAMS by Erika Petersen, M.D., a neurosurgeon and researcher, the study is part of a clinical trial being conducted at sites...
Oct. 23, 2018 | The UAMS College of Health Professions (CHP) presented Lindsay Gilbert, Cherika Robertson and Sam Atcherson with Excellence in Teaching, Service and Scholarship awards, respectively, at a recent faculty meeting.
Oct. 22, 2018 | Teams of first-year College of Medicine students concluded their nine-week full-body dissection course recently by presenting their findings before faculty and peers. The Human Structure Student Research Conference was held Oct. 12 in the Education II building and featured 35 teams of five. The students were asked to prepare professional written and oral presentations detailing...
Oct. 19, 2018 | Jodie McGinley shared a life lesson with the 118 UAMS College of Nursing juniors gathered Oct. 12 for a White Coat Ceremony marking their passage into the clinical phase of their education.
Oct. 11, 2018 | Hari Eswaran, Ph.D., and his research team are working hard to see if a new generation of technology can improve on a device developed at UAMS while lowering its cost and benefitting pregnant mothers.
Oct. 10, 2018 | LITTLE ROCK — David Bumpass, M.D., an orthopaedic surgeon at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), was named one of the nation’s outstanding young spine care providers by the North American Spine Society’s SpineLine magazine in its inaugural “20 Under 40” list honoring spine professionals under the age of 40. Bumpass, 37, is...
Oct. 10, 2018 | The Department of Family and Preventive Medicine at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) has received $3.29 million from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for a five-year project to reduce obesity, increase physical activity and improve nutrition in Arkansas, especially in the Delta. The State Physical Activity and Nutrition (SPAN)...