May 31, 2017 | May 31, 2017 | UAMS applauded the hard work and dedication of its 12 Project SEARCH® interns during a May 24 graduation ceremony, held in the Jackson T. Stephens Spine & Neurosciences Institute. UAMS Project SEARCH is a job-training program that helps young adults with disabilities develop independent living and working skills. “This class of...
May 30, 2017 | May 30, 2017 | University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Professor Mark Smeltzer, Ph.D., has been awarded $11 million in federal funding for Phase II of a program that supports microbiology and immunology research. Phase I of the Centers of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE) grant was awarded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in...
May 26, 2017 | May 26, 2017 | Of the 308 Arkansas physicians named to the recently released 2017 Best Doctors in America list, nearly 200 are on staff at UAMS. The list is compiled annually by Best Doctors Inc., a health care information service company headquartered in Massachusetts, and is published by the weekly newspaper Arkansas Times. Researchers...
May 25, 2017 | May 25, 2017 | The University of Arkansas Board of Trustees voted May 25 to honor UAMS Chancellor Dan Rahn, M.D., who is retiring July 31, by naming a building on the northern side of campus the Daniel W. Rahn Interprofessional Education Building. The building houses the College of Nursing, the College of Pharmacy, the...
May 23, 2017 | May 23, 2017 | The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Center for Health Literacy won top honors at the ClearMark Awards Ceremony hosted by the Center for Plain Language on May 9 in Washington, D.C. UAMS won the Grand ClearMark Award in the Spanish language category for its plain language handbook, “Cómo Hablar con...
May 22, 2017 | May 22, 2017 | The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) awarded certificates and degrees May 20 to 942 graduates of its five colleges and graduate school during its commencement ceremony at Verizon Arena in North Little Rock. Degrees were presented to 163 in the College of Medicine; 265 in the College of Nursing; 123...
May 22, 2017 | May 22, 2017 | Wendy Nembhard has been named chair of the Department of Epidemiology in the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Fay W. Boozman College of Public Health. She began on April 1 and comes to the College of Public Health from the UAMS College of Medicine, where she will continue to serve...
May 19, 2017 | May 19, 2017 | Learning how research is done at UAMS and how they can be a part of it was an eye-opener for the nine new graduates of the Translational Research Institute’s inaugural UAMS Patient Scientist Academy. Over four two-hour sessions in April, the academy covered research basics such as the difference between blind...
May 18, 2017 | May 18, 2017 | A $2.1 million award from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) will allow the UAMS Northwest Regional Campus to continue and expand its research to identify effective ways to combat diabetes in the Marshallese community.
May 18, 2017 | May 18, 2017 | A beautiful spring evening was the setting May 8 as former Gov. Mike and Ginger Beebe and neighbors Ann and Reynie Rutledge co-hosted more than 100 business and community leaders at the Beebes’ home for the inaugural Friends of UAMS – Searcy event. Beebe, governor from 2007-2015, serves as of counsel...