Oct. 6, 2016 | Oct. 6, 2016 | A glamorous bygone era briefly reappeared in Little Rock on Sept. 30 when the UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute hosted its 21st annual Gala for Life. The black-tie fundraiser raised more than $1.2 million and treated about 800 guests to the opulence of 1960’s Las Vegas, complete with showgirls, themed...
Oct. 6, 2016 | Oct. 6, 2016 | Seventeen Arkansans were recently recognized for their participation in the first UAMS Community Scientist Academy. The UAMS Translational Research Institute piloted the academy to help citizens better understand how research is done at UAMS and to prepare them for bigger roles as volunteers. A second Community Scientist Academy is being planned...
Oct. 5, 2016 | Oct. 5, 2016 | Sue Griffin, Ph.D., an internationally known Alzheimer’s disease researcher at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), leads a team that has received a five-year, $10 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to study the causes and possible treatments for Alzheimer’s disease. Griffin said the research team...
Oct. 4, 2016 | Oct. 4, 2016 | During the 17th annual Geriatrics and Long-Term Care Update recently at UAMS, about 160 geriatrics professionals and educators learned what’s new in caring for older patients, giving them the tools to achieve what a guest speaker called “the Triple Aim.” The Triple Aim is a set of goals developed at the...
Oct. 3, 2016 | Oct. 3, 2016 | Researchers from all disciplines can put the power of biomedical informatics to work for them, and the results of that collaborative spirit were on display at a recent reception at UAMS. Fourteen research projects were featured at the Showcase of Medical Discoveries: Biomedical Informatics Research, held Sept. 21 at the UAMS...
Sept. 30, 2016 | Sept. 30, 2016 | Thanks to the support of thousands of online voters, the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) and the Little Rock Trojans today won $5,000 for breast cancer research in the national Medline Pink Glove Dance video competition. The $5,000 prize was presented by Robin Ward of Medline to UAMS Chancellor...
Sept. 29, 2016 | Sept. 29, 2016 | Although the lab coats 19 UAMS Graduate School students put on in a public ceremony Sept. 19 were immaculately white and embroidered with their names, it wasn’t a typical white-coat ceremony, said Bobby McGehee, Ph.D., the school’s dean. “We have colleges and programs on campus that do a white coat ceremony...
Sept. 29, 2016 | Sept. 29, 2016 | Passionate views about gun violence topped the discussion recently as UAMS faculty, staff and students engaged in emotional dialogue on a variety of topics related to diversity and inclusion. The Sept. 20 lunchtime, panel discussion, “Let’s Talk: Better Together – A Healing Conversation,” gave nearly 100 attendants the chance to discuss...
Sept. 27, 2016 | Sept. 27 2016 | Joseph G. Chacko, M.D., professor of ophthalmology and neurology in the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) College of Medicine, was invested Sept. 26 in the Sally McSpadden Boreham Chair in Ophthalmology. Chacko has been the director of neuro-ophthalmology at the UAMS Harvey & Bernice Jones Eye Institute since 2005. An...
Sept. 27, 2016 | Sept. 27, 2016 | With his 7-week-old daughter cradled and sleeping on his shoulder, Jody Lewis on a recent September morning sat down in front of the UAMS 12th Street Health & Wellness Center’s blood pressure screening table set up at Our House in Little Rock. Lewis and his wife, Shannon Tate, have five children...