April 13, 2018 | April 13, 2018 | Atul Butte, M.D., Ph.D., spoke to a packed house Wednesday, April 4, in the Jackson T. Stephens Spine & Neurosciences Institute as part of the Winthrop P. Rockefeller Distinguished Lecture series. Butte, a leading voice in biomedical informatics, presented “Translating a Trillion Points of Data into Therapies, Diagnostics and New Insights...
April 11, 2018 | April 11, 2018 | Thirty-two nurses from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) were named to the Great 100 Nurses Foundation’s annual list of the state’s superb nurses. The list honors nurses from numerous backgrounds and specialties for their concern for humanity, their contributions to the profession and their mentorship of others. UAMS nurses...
April 11, 2018 | April 11, 2018 | The UAMS Medical Center and Angel Eye Camera Systems, a company established in 2013 with support from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), recently installed 40 new camera systems in the medical center’s neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), making it the first in the state with a camera on...
April 10, 2018 | April 10, 2018 | Before she was a two-time Olympic gold medalist, Kayla Harrison didn’t want to be the golden girl. She didn’t want to get out of bed. She didn’t want to talk about being sexually abused by her judo coach. She most certainly didn’t want to train, even though she was winning national...
April 6, 2018 | April 6, 2018 | Women today must strive for equity and avoid complacency to honor all those who came before them, said Trenda Ray, Ph.D., A.P.R.N., associate vice chancellor for patients and families. Ray was part of a four-woman panel held March 30 in conjunction with the UAMS celebration of national Women’s History Month. The...
April 5, 2018 | April 5, 2018 | Arkansas Children’s Hospital and the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) College of Medicine celebrated the investiture of Brian Reemtsen, M.D., as the recipient and steward of the Arkansas Log A Load For Kids Endowed Chair in Pediatric Cardiovascular Surgery on April 4. Establishing endowed chairs provides Arkansas Children’s and...
April 4, 2018 | April 4, 2018 | Although UAMS doesn’t field a sports team, the UAMS 12th Street Health & Wellness Center’s students and clinicians represented the university well March 24 on the basketball court at its fifth annual March MAN-ness Health Event. On the gym floor at Saint Mark Baptist Church in Little Rock, the center’s students...
April 3, 2018 | April 3, 2018 | James E. McDonald, M.D., F.A.C.R., chair of the Department of Radiology in the College of Medicine at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), was invested March 27 as the holder of the Ernest J. Ferris, M.D., Chair in Diagnostic Radiology. McDonald, who joined UAMS in 2010, was appointed department...
March 29, 2018 | March 29, 2018 | Three longtime UAMS physicians were honored by Arkansas Business as Healthcare Heroes at a luncheon March 28. The annual awards program was begun in 2015 to recognize individuals, companies and organizations making a significant impact on the quality of health care in Arkansas. Kent Westbrook, M.D., a distinguished professor in the...
March 28, 2018 | March 28, 2018 | Maria Almeida, Ph.D., is the first researcher at UAMS to receive supplemental funding through the NIAMS STAR program and hopes it will not only take her work to the next level but show other investigators a roadmap for their careers. Almeida, an associate professor in the Department of Internal Medicine-Endocrinology in...