Showcase Puts COBREs in Spotlight

Sept. 27, 2018 | Have the COBRE programs at UAMS and ACRI reached critical mass and can now benefit the entire campus research community? Mark Smeltzer, Ph.D., certainly thinks so.

Room Service Coming to UAMS Hospital

Sept. 26, 2018 | Beginning Oct. 2, patients in the UAMS hospital will be able to call Nutrition Services and order their own meals. Orders can be placed from 6 a.m. to 6:30 p.m., and orders will be delivered to patient rooms within 45 minutes.

UAMS Receives $1.27 Million Grant for Educational Outreach with Little Rock School District

Sept. 26, 2018 | Sept. 26, 2018 | The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) has received a $1.27 million science education research grant to teach Little Rock School District students about STEM careers and cardiovascular health using handheld ultrasound devices and other interactive technology. The five-year Science Education Partnership Award (SEPA) comes from the National Institute of General...

Seventy Years Later, Edith Irby Jones, M.D., Continues to Inspire

Sept. 24, 2018 | Sept. 24, 2018 | A month-long celebration of the life and career of Edith Irby Jones, M.D., who enrolled 70 years ago at UAMS as the first African-American medical student in the South, brought thanks and appreciation from those she inspired and served.

Zoe Weeks of Jonesboro Receives $10,000 Arkansas Mutual Scholarship to Pursue Rural Primary Care

Sept. 21, 2018 | Sept. 21, 2018 | Zoe Weeks of Jonesboro has been awarded the $10,000 Arkansas Mutual Medical Student Award, a scholarship for third-year medical students at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) who want to practice primary care in rural Arkansas. Weeks, a graduate of the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville and the University...

FAITH Summit Draws Leaders to Address Mental Health Disparities

Sept. 20, 2018 | Sept. 20, 2018 | A blindfolded volunteer stood Sept. 14 at the FAITH Network Summit in Little Rock as people in the audience shouted directions to guide her through an improvised obstacle course of stools and chairs.

UAMS Family Medicine Update Set for Oct. 25-27

Sept. 20, 2018 | The 22nd annual Family Medicine Update at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) will offer continuing education for physicians, nurses and pharmacists Oct. 25-27, including a half-day emphasis on ear, nose and throat topics. A discounted early registration price of $330 for three days or $250 for two days is available through Oct....

Visiting Lecturer: Swelling Key to Diagnosing Mozart’s Death

Sept. 19, 2018 | Sept. 19, 2018 | At 35, Mozart was feeling well and was as productive as ever, then a sudden illness killed him less than two months before his 36th birthday. The cause of death has been the subject of speculation ever since, with more than 100 proposed diagnoses. Philip A. Mackowiak, M.D., MBA, was invited...

William Ventres, M.D., Invested in Ben Saltzman, M.D. Distinguished Chair in Rural Family Medicine

Sept. 19, 2018 | Sept. 19, 2018 | William “Bill” Ventres, M.D., M.A., assistant professor in the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine in the College of Medicine at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), was invested Sept. 17 as the holder of the Ben Saltzman, M.D., Distinguished Chair in Rural Family Medicine.

Boyers Welcome Pattersons at Friends of UAMS – Northwest Arkansas Event

Sept. 14, 2018 | Sept. 14, 2018 | Wet weather kept few away from the Fayetteville home of Tommy and Sylvia Boyer, as more than 130 guests poured in Aug. 30 to welcome UAMS Chancellor Cam Patterson, M.D., MBA, for the latest Friends of UAMS event in northwest Arkansas. Tommy Boyer is a member of the University of Arkansas...