Feb. 3, 2017 | Feb. 3, 2017 | For the fifth time in nine years, the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) is ranked in the top 10 nationwide for the percentage of its graduating class to pursue family medicine. In the latest ranking, the UAMS College of Medicine was listed seventh in the nation by the American...
Feb. 2, 2017 | Feb. 2, 2017 | UAMS researchers were published today in Trends in Pharmacological Sciences, warning the broader science community and the public about the serious health risks associated with so-called synthetic marijuana products, which are marketed as safe, legal alternatives to marijuana. Titled “Synthetic Pot: Not Your Grandfather’s Marijuana,” the article was featured on the...
Feb. 1, 2017 | Feb. 1, 2017 | The UAMS Mobile Mammography Program recently received a lift from FIS, its newest partner, in the form of a $25,000 gift. For many members of the FIS campus leadership committee, which presented the gift, it is an intensely personal one. “If you pick anybody off the street from here or this...
Jan. 31, 2017 | UAMS’ Physician Assistant Program in the College of Health Professions has been granted Accreditation-Continued status by the Accreditation Review Commission on Education for the Physician Assistant (ARC-PA). The decision was based on the program’s application, a successful site visit, the program’s response to observations and its accreditation history, said Susan Long, associate dean for Academic...
Jan. 30, 2017 | Jan. 30, 2017 | Three newly awarded grants will assist UAMS scientists in advancing their cancer research projects. The three grants of $10,000 each were presented to investigators Jan. 26 at the UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute by the Envoys, a volunteer advocacy group of the Cancer Institute Foundation, during their “Doctor is In”...
Jan. 26, 2017 | Amyn Amlani, Ph.D., wants to know why people don’t adopt amplification devices to overcome their hearing difficulties — even when it would greatly improve their lives. It is a question he has spent years researching — and one he regards as his calling. “We know this technology is important because hearing loss leads to social...
Jan. 26, 2017 | For 16 years, the Ophthalmic Medical Technology program in the College of Health Professions has been teaching students the skills they need to be indispensable to an ophthalmologist. And for most of those years, Suzanne Hansen, M.Ed., COMT, has been right there. Hansen was a member of the program’s second class of students. After graduation,...
Jan. 26, 2017 | Jan. 26, 2017 | Rawle A. “Tony” Seupaul, M.D., professor and chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), was invested Jan. 19 as the inaugural recipient of the Stanley E. Reed Professorship for Emergency Medicine, Trauma and Injury Prevention. Seupaul was presented with a commemorative medallion...
Jan. 25, 2017 | Jan. 25, 2017 | To truly honor the accomplishments and legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. is to focus on the needs of the most vulnerable, said Pulaski County Circuit Judge Wendell Griffen at a Jan. 18 UAMS event celebrating the civil rights icon. Griffen argued that fighting for justice and tolerance was key to...
Jan. 17, 2017 | Jan. 17, 2017 | Chemotherapy for cancer causes a pro-inflammatory stress response that promotes adverse side effects and cancer relapse, says a research team that includes the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS). Daohong Zhou, M.D., associate director for basic research in the UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute, is a co-author of the study...