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...
Nov. 14, 2016 | Nov. 14, 2016 | Two guest speakers from out of state recently found something at UAMS they wanted to take back with them more than any souvenir: the Schmieding Home Caregiver Training Program. “You have no idea how fortunate you are in Arkansas,” said John Schall, CEO of the national Caregiver Action Network. “The fact...
Nov. 10, 2016 | Nov. 10, 2016 | A spirited crowd of 125 business and community leaders filled the home of Chris and Margo Weiser on Nov. 3 for the inaugural Friends of UAMS – South. A last gasp of summer heat and humidity lingered throughout the evening, although the assembled guests didn’t seem to mind. An evening of conversation...
Nov. 9, 2016 | Nov. 9, 2016 | Stavros Manolagas, M.D., Ph.D., has been named the 2016 recipient of the Veterans Administration Biomedical Laboratory Research and Development Service’s highest honor, the William S. Middleton Award. Given annually, the award honors a senior VA research scientist in recognition of outstanding scientific contributions and achievements in the areas of biomedical and behavioral...
Nov. 7, 2016 | Nov. 7, 2016 | Jill M. Mhyre, M.D., an authority on obstetric anesthesiology at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), was invested Nov. 1 as the inaugural recipient of the Dola S. Thompson, M.D., Professorship in Anesthesiology. Mhyre is the vice chair for research and associate professor in the Department of Anesthesiology in...
Nov. 3, 2016 | Nov. 3, 2016 | Health and medicine in the 1890s German community in Arkansas was the topic at the 35th annual meeting of the Society for the History of Medicine and the Health Professions on Oct. 29 at the UAMS Donald W. Reynolds Institute on Aging. Kathleen Condray, Ph.D., associate professor of German at the...
Nov. 1, 2016 | Nov. 1, 2016 | Experience was the name of the game at the UAMS Graduate Student Association Research Symposium – experience developing posters, giving presentations and even organizing a symposium. Thirty UAMS Graduate School students participated in the Oct. 28 event, which was held in both the Helen Guinn Adams Atrium and the Rayford Auditorium...
Oct. 27, 2016 | Oct. 27, 2016 | UAMS students visited KIPP Delta Collegiate High School in Helena recently to share with the nearly college-bound students the vast opportunities and careers in health care. The event, Raising Exposure & Awareness of Careers in Health (REACH) in the Delta, gave more than one hundred 11th and 12th grade students the...
Oct. 25, 2016 | Oct. 25, 2016 | Patients’ health literacy, known as the ability to understand and use health information, greatly affects their well-being. The topic is gaining attention, and recently the UAMS Center for Health Literacy helped get the word out through the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) news website. AAMCNews at news.aamc.org recently turned to...
Oct. 21, 2016 | On Saturday, October 15, 2016, several of our students from the Physical Therapy program in Northwest Arkansas participated in this year’s Physical Therapy Day of Service. About 15 of our students helped provide over 7,000 meals to hungry families in Northwest Arkansas. We here at UAMS are very proud of the contributions our organization provides to...