June 21, 2018 | June 21, 2018 | The Beaumont Foundation has given $40,000 to the UAMS College of Nursing to fund eight scholarships for undergraduate and graduate nursing students. Four undergraduate students and four graduate students will receive $2,500 apiece during the fall semester as recipients of the Deborah Dorsa Carmon Beaumont Foundation Scholarship. Eight additional scholarships will...
June 21, 2018 | June 21, 2018 | A couple dozen school-aged girls broke into groups of four and five and spread out across the room. In each group, one girl stood in the center as the rest — armed with a pen, clipboard, paper and measuring tape — outfitted her with round, silvery, shiny markers to track movement....
June 20, 2018 | June 20, 2018 | The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) has established the Pamela Rakhshan Chair in Otolaryngology thanks to a $1 million gift from her father, Chris Rakhshan, in gratitude to the physician who saved her life. UAMS will name a professor to the Rakhshan Chair at a later time. Rakhshan, of...
June 19, 2018 | June 19, 2018 — Laura Hutchins, M.D., a hematologist oncologist at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) who has devoted her medical practice and research to fight breast cancer, melanoma and brain cancer, has been appointed interim director for the UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute effective immediately.
June 18, 2018 | June 18, 2018 | Emergency care requires health care professionals and first responders to be adept at reacting quickly and efficiently to a variety of needs. Staying abreast of the latest advancements in treating common conditions and identifying what needs to be done takes training and practice. About 100 health care professionals, first responders, police...
June 15, 2018 | June 15, 2018 | UAMS Chancellor Cam Patterson, M.D., MBA, met today with employees of the UAMS Northwest Regional Campus, thanking them for their work to improve the health and health care for the people of Arkansas. Patterson’s first day as chancellor was June 1. He traveled to northwest Arkansas for the morning reception held...
June 15, 2018 | As patients with inflammatory bowel disease and their families and friends walked to raise awareness and funding for the disease, UAMS was there to cheer on their efforts at the Take Steps Walk on May 19 in Little Rock. More than 265 participants, volunteers and sponsors took part in the event for Crohn’s and ulcerative...
June 13, 2018 | June 13, 2018 | Arkansas Children’s Hospital (ACH) and the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) College of Medicine celebrated the investiture of Frederick “Rick” E. Barr, M.D., MBA as the recipient and steward of the Robert H. Fiser, Jr., M.D. Endowed Chair in Pediatrics on Tuesday, June 12. In 2006, the Arkansas Children’s...
June 12, 2018 | June 12, 2018 | About 290 health care professionals gathered in Hot Springs for the annual Telestroke Conference held May 22-24, as the Arkansas Stroke Assistance through Virtual Emergency Support (AR SAVES) celebrated its 10th anniversary. Each year the UAMS-led partnership of AR SAVES organizes the conference and most of the attendees work at its...
June 11, 2018 | June 11, 2018 | Two Ph.D. students in the spring graduating class of the UAMS Graduate School have accepted positions at Emory University in Atlanta to continue their postdoctoral work. “They will join other UAMS alumni at Emory for us to have a strong presence there,” said Robert E. McGehee Jr., Ph.D., dean of the...