Dec. 14, 2016 | LITTLE ROCK — Alan J. Tackett, Ph.D., was invested Dec. 13 as the inaugural recipient of the Scharlau Family Endowed Chair in Cancer Research at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS). He is a professor of biochemistry and molecular biology with secondary faculty appointments in pathology and pediatrics, all in the UAMS College...
Dec. 13, 2016 | Dec. 13, 2016 | Janay Tatum got some good news on Dec. 1 at the UAMS 12th Street Health & Wellness Center: She’s healthy. “It was a good experience, and I had never been here before,” said Tatum, 27, of Wrightsville. “Everybody was nice, very friendly. My blood pressure, cholesterol and blood sugar were good....
Dec. 9, 2016 | Dec. 9, 2016 | Nearly 40 female high school students from across the state spent a Saturday at UAMS learning orthopaedic concepts like reconstructing knee ligaments and casting broken bones. The workshop was part of the Perry Outreach Program, designed to encourage young women to become orthopaedic surgeons and researchers. For six years, UAMS has...
Dec. 8, 2016 | Dec. 8, 2016 | It was a jolly affair as UAMS employees showed off their talents Dec. 2 at the Hollydays Concert. A lively — and festively clad — group sang, played the piano, strummed the guitar, recited poetry and thoroughly entertained their fellow UAMS employees in the Hospital Lobby Gallery.
Dec. 8, 2016 | Dec. 8, 2016 | A project to develop a new type of microscope with unprecedented speed and resolution has revealed previously unseen parts of human cells, as highlighted in a Nature Photonics article co-authored by two researchers in the College of Medicine at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. Brian Storrie, Ph.D., and Vladimir Lupashin, Ph.D.,...
Dec. 7, 2016 | Dec. 7, 2016 | W. Brooks Gentry, M.D., chair of the Department of Anesthesiology in the College of Medicine at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), was invested Dec. 6 as the inaugural holder of the Carmelita S. Pablo, M.D., Endowed Chair in Anesthesiology. Gentry has been at UAMS for two decades as...
Dec. 6, 2016 | Dec. 6, 2016 | For some children, reading comes naturally. For others, it can be a difficult and frustrating endeavor. Camp Can Read worked to give those struggling readers the tools that they need to unlock the mysteries of reading — and make it fun.
Dec. 5, 2016 | Dec. 5, 2016 | The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) is collaborating with Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Celgene Corp. to compile the largest set of high-quality genetic data related to myeloma, a cancer of plasma cells in the blood. Brian Walker, Ph.D., a professor in the UAMS College of Medicine’s Department of Internal...
Dec. 5, 2016 | Dec. 5, 2016 | The UAMS Translational Research Institute honored UAMS’ many Arkansas community partners Nov. 18 with its fourth annual Community Partner Celebration. During the event at the Centre at University Park in Little Rock, Naomi Cottoms, executive director of Tri County Rural Health Network (Tri County), accepted the first Chancellor’s Community Research Partner...
Dec. 2, 2016 | Dec. 2, 2016 | UAMS College of Public Health student ReeShema Britt presented her research on nutrition for the elderly at two conferences recently. Britt presented her paper, “Raising Awareness in the Elderly Nutritional Needs for African Americans,” at the American Public Health Association Annual Meeting and Expo, held Oct. 29 to Nov. 2 in...