June 6, 2018 | June 6, 2018 | UAMS employees arrived in droves at the Lobby Gallery on June 5 to meet new UAMS Chancellor Cam Patterson, M.D., MBA, who welcomed them with open arms – and selfies. Patterson, whose first day at UAMS was June 1, stood in the middle of the gallery and greeted each employee in...
June 6, 2018 | June 6, 2018 | Just as academic years at Arkansas colleges and universities were winding down in May, 17 undergraduate and graduate students were starting up at the third annual Health Sciences Entrepreneurship Boot Camp on the University of Central Arkansas campus in Conway. The boot camp from May 20-25 was a joint initiative of...
June 5, 2018 | June 5, 2018 | Through the spattered mud of a rain-soaked Churchill Downs, racing fans focused on the past, as Justify beat out a crowded field to break the 136-year Curse of Apollo. Meanwhile, the 15th Julep Cup Jaunt at UAMS, held May 5 in Little Rock, was looking ahead: raising $60,000 to benefit medical...
June 4, 2018 | June 4, 2018 | Katie Brown, O.D., an optometric physician at the UAMS Harvey & Bernice Jones Eye Institute, is the Arkansas Optometric Association’s 2018 Young Optometrist of the Year award recipient.
June 1, 2018 | June 1, 2018 | Cam Patterson, M.D., MBA, a renowned cardiologist and health care administrator, began today as chancellor of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), the state’s only health sciences university. Patterson comes to UAMS from Weill-Cornell Medical Center and Komansky Children’s Hospital/New York Presbyterian Hospital in New York, where he was senior vice...
May 31, 2018 | May 31, 2018 | As 19 Arkansas undergraduate students listened quietly, the 20-year-old opioid addict, sitting a few feet away, talked with a UAMS psychiatrist and then a UAMS psychologist about her failed attempts to quit using. The messy addiction story of “Lynn,” with treatment medications she dislikes and friends who enjoy using drugs, highlighted...
May 30, 2018 | May 30, 2018 | Ever since Ph.D. candidate Chris Bolden can remember, he’s been fascinated by how small changes can have big impacts in the biological world. Today, he studies how he can harness for positive purposes one of the basic functions of viruses, using them to deliver antibodies into cells that work against methamphetamine...
May 29, 2018 | May 29, 2018 | Most of us take for granted the ability to get a job and be independent, but for others, like the young adults with disabilities who are a part of UAMS Project SEARCH®, these things take hard work, dedication – and the courage to take a chance. For the last five years,...
May 29, 2018 | May 29, 2018 | Researchers at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) call for revision to the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program to reduce unintended consequences that could threaten the health care delivery system in the Mississippi Delta region in a new study published in The American Journal of Managed Care. The program provides...
May 25, 2018 | May 25, 2018 | In May 2006, Harold “Hap” Peterson was advised to get his affairs in order by UAMS cancer specialist Laura Hutchins, M.D. He had late-stage melanoma, a type of skin cancer, with tumors spreading throughout his body. He was shocked to hear he had only three to six months to live. “I...