May 8, 2017 | May 8, 2017 | Wilson Alobuia could tell just from the smile on Danielle Tchoungang’s face at Match Day that she found good news within the envelope that revealed her residency match. Alobuia started jumping up and down and yelling, excited for his best friend from medical school and forgetting momentarily that he was recording...
May 3, 2017 | Gracious, calm and compassionate were just three of the words used to describe Robin Dean at an April 26 ceremony honoring her service to the UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute. “Robin looks for the sun when the clouds hit. She brings a positive attitude to everything she does,” said Kent Westbrook, M.D., addressing a...
May 2, 2017 | May 2, 2017 | Cody McLeod, a third-year medical student at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), is the 2016 recipient of the Dr. Horace N. Marvin Award. The Marvin Award is presented annually by the UAMS College of Medicine’s Department of Neurobiology and Developmental Sciences to the student who scores the highest...
April 28, 2017 | April 28, 2017 | Our ethics must be as sophisticated as our science, said former U.S. Surgeon General David Satcher on April 20 to UAMS faculty, students and staff. Satcher, at UAMS to discuss how the United States could become the healthiest nation, was quoting from former U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Donna...
April 27, 2017 | LITTLE ROCK — Mayumi Nakagawa, M.D., Ph.D., was invested April 26 as recipient of the Drs. Mae and Anderson Nettleship Chair in Oncologic Pathology at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS). She is a professor in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Sciences in the UAMS College of Medicine and co-leader of the...
April 26, 2017 | April 26, 2017 | The UAMS College of Medicine honored Richard Thomas “Tad” Fiser, M.D., for his longstanding service as an educator, physician, scholar and leader and highlighted the accomplishments of many other faculty and staff at its seventh annual Dean’s Honor Day on April 24. Fiser, professor in the Section of Critical Care Medicine...
April 26, 2017 | April 26, 2017 | John Dornhoffer, M.D., has been appointed chairman of the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery in the College of Medicine at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS). Dornhoffer – like many of his patients – has a severe hearing loss and brings a unique perspective to the role. With this...
April 25, 2017 | April 25, 2017 | Nicki Hilliard, Pharm.D., a pharmacy professor at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), recently was honored with the 2017 Outstanding Woman Faculty Award by the UAMS Women’s Faculty Development Caucus. Hilliard is a professor in the UAMS College of Pharmacy Department of Pharmacy Practice. The award is given to a...
April 24, 2017 | April 24, 2017 | All life stories have a purpose. A journey is taking place. A path is being forged. But for many of the non-traditional students graduating in this year’s UAMS College of Medicine class, the way forward wasn’t always obvious. The path that brought them to medicine was a winding one. “Looking back,...
April 24, 2017 | April 24, 2017 | UAMS’ Amanda Stolarz, Pharm.D., Ph.D., recently celebrated her team’s victory in the Donald W. Reynolds Governor’s Cup business plan competition. The team, Rejuvenics Technologies, won the $25,000 top prize with its idea for commercializing a drug-delivery system to reduce the harmful side effects of chemotherapy. Just under a year ago, the...