April 12, 2017 | April 12, 2017 | Technology? Check. Expertise? Check. Leadership? Double check. The UAMS Proteomics Core Facility has been diligently amassing the technology needed to make it a leader in its field, which is studying the many functions of proteins. And now it’s taking that leadership role a step further by facilitating the exchange of ideas...
April 11, 2017 | April 11, 2017 | For most of her career as a medical student, Meghan Kerin thought she would practice internal medicine. She had a change of heart during her psychiatry rotation. “Dr. Tariq would tell us in medical school to pick the field we feel we can do the most good. I believe for me,...
April 11, 2017 | April 11, 2017 | University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Chancellor Dan Rahn, M.D., and Robert Hopkins Jr., M.D., professor in the UAMS College of Medicine have joined an elite group of physicians awarded Mastership in the American College of Physicians (ACP), the national organization of internists. Rahn and Hopkins, director of the Division of...
April 10, 2017 | April 10, 2017 | The Partners in Health Sciences (PIHS) program at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) is celebrating 25 years of promoting science education for PreK-12 teachers/school nurses statewide. E. Robert Burns, Ph.D., a professor in the College of Medicine Department of Neurobiology and Developmental Sciences since 1968, started the program...
April 7, 2017 | April 7, 2017 | Keith Olsen, Pharm.D., dean of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) College of Pharmacy, was invested April 6 as the recipient of the College of Pharmacy Dean’s Chair. Olsen was presented with a medallion commemorating the investiture by UAMS Chancellor Dan Rahn, M.D., and Stephanie Gardner, Pharm.D., Ed.D., UAMS...
April 7, 2017 | April 7, 2017 | Undeterred by blustery weather, business and community leaders from across Mountain Home packed the home of Sara and Lang Zimmerman on April 5 to kick off the inaugural Friends of UAMS – North Central. The Zimmermans’ home, along with many others, is nestled near Big Creek Golf & Country Club, which...
April 6, 2017 | April 6, 2017 | Future health research must include a sufficient number of black men, to ensure the most effective care and strategy for the minority group, said Roland Thorpe, Ph.D., an associate professor in the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. To be valid, it also must ensure that black men stay with...
April 4, 2017 | April 4, 2017 | “When someone tells you that you can’t do something, don’t believe them.” Those wise words summed up the way that Raye Montague has lived her life and set the tone for her keynote address at UAMS’ annual Women’s History Month event March 28, titled “Hidden Treasures – Herstory: Celebrating UAMS Phenomenal Women.”
March 31, 2017 | March 31, 2017 | A two-day workshop at UAMS made undergraduate student Daniel Games eager to get to something most people want to avoid — viruses. “I didn’t expect to get this much hands-on work,” Games said. “That was great. The workshop lectures were interesting, too, but today was all hands-on software work. We got...
March 30, 2017 | A $1.7 million grant from the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) will allow a University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) researcher to study a potential new therapy to reduce the risk of blood cancer caused by ionizing radiation.