Dec. 1, 2016 | Dec. 1, 2016 | There is a simple reason volunteers return year after year to give away free medical foot care and shoes to the homeless during the Soles4Souls event at River City Ministry in North Little Rock. “I think it makes people feel good,” said Ruth Thomas, M.D., professor in the Department of Orthopaedic...
Nov. 30, 2016 | Nov. 30, 2016 | Construction crews, most of them from western Arkansas, are wielding tools to take the ideas gathered from local patients, health care providers and design experts and shape them into the new UAMS West Regional Campus clinic building in Fort Smith they imagined. By spring, those physicians, nurses, staff members and area patients...
Nov. 29, 2016 | Nov. 29, 2016 | For more than nine years, June O’Keefe has quietly made a difference in the lives of Arkansas’ cancer patients. Her efforts were recognized Nov. 17 when she was named Volunteer of the Year by the UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute Auxiliary. “June is always upbeat, outgoing and has a wonderful...
Nov. 28, 2016 | Nov. 28, 2016 | UAMS researchers spent an evening discussing structures within the basic unit of all living things, a cell, at the latest wine-and-cheese reception hosted Nov. 9 by the College of Medicine to highlight medical research. Fourteen projects were featured at the Showcase of Medical Discoveries: Basic Subcellular Mechanisms in the UAMS Winthrop...
Nov. 22, 2016 | Nov. 22, 2016 | Larry G. Johnson, M.D., and Megan R. Davis, M.D., have received the 2016 Chris Hackler Awards for Excellence in Medical Ethics. Both work in the Department of Internal Medicine in the UAMS College of Medicine. The University Hospital Ethics Committee presents the award to one faculty member and one resident each...
Nov. 21, 2016 | LITTLE ROCK — Members of the grassroots group Ashley County Cares visited the Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) on Nov. 16 to present a donation of $35,000 for breast cancer research and outreach. Since 2005, Ashley County Cares has worked in its community to raise $358,000...
Nov. 18, 2016 | Nov. 18, 2016 | UAMS delivered 375 care packages to local veterans Nov. 10 and 11 to thank them for their service and celebrate Veterans Day. That’s just one of the ways UAMS faculty, staff and students honored those who have served the country. The month-long celebration of veterans is organized by the UAMS Veterans...
Nov. 17, 2016 | Nov. 17, 2016 | Frits van Rhee, M.D., Ph.D., was awarded the Castleman Disease Warrior Award for Best Physician of the Year Nov. 4 by the Castleman Disease Collaborative Network (CDCN) at its third annual Patients & Loved Ones Summit in Philadelphia. CDCN was established in 2012 to accelerate research and treatment for Castleman Disease —...
Nov. 16, 2016 | Nov. 16, 2016 | If someone piled all the research journals, research reports and documents resulting from or associated with the professional life of Jeanne Wei, M.D., Ph.D., then it might have been as high as the Pauly Auditorium stage on which she stood Nov. 9. She was on the stage to be honored as...
Nov. 15, 2016 | Nov. 15, 2016 | A month-long promotion at a North Little Rock car dealership is helping provide mammograms for women across Arkansas. During October, a portion of proceeds from sales at Gwatney Buick GMC were designated for the UAMS MammoVan, a mobile mammography unit that offers screening mammography to women throughout Arkansas. The donation was...