Nov. 12, 2024 | LITTLE ROCK — The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) has received two federal grants totaling $11 million to create a Gastroenterology Clinic and endoscopy center in the nearby Freeway Medical Tower and upgrade the Monroe Building on its Little Rock campus. “We are very grateful for these construction grants from the U.S. Department...
Nov. 8, 2024 | LITTLE ROCK — The public is invited to visit the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) All of Us Journey, a traveling, hands-on exhibit, at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Little Rock campus Tuesday, Nov. 12 through Friday, Nov. 15. The exhibit, at 324 W. Campus Drive, will be open to the public...
Nov. 8, 2024 | The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), raised more than $470,000 during its seventh Day of Giving, a 24-hour fundraising event that was created to help advance the institution’s mission and contribute to better health for all Arkansans. In total, UAMS raised $470,250, surpassing its goal of $300,000. “Though I had no doubt that...
Nov. 7, 2024 | UAMS is committed to supporting growth in Northwest Arkansas, UAMS Chancellor Cam Patterson, M.D., MBA, told the Rogers Rotary at its regular meeting Oct. 28. “Since we opened our campus in Northwest Arkansas in 2007, we have added new patient care services, research and educational programs as we work to be a part of the...
Nov. 7, 2024 | Kristy Jones-Caldwell, Dr.PH., MPH, embraces any opportunity to help Arkansans, both professionally and personally. “I’ve always been the kind of person to nurture others,” she said. “I love connecting people to the resources they need in order to thrive.” Jones-Caldwell is a graduate of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Fay W. Boozman...
Nov. 6, 2024 | The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Milk Bank relies on a network of women who donate their milk to help fragile preemies in neonatal intensive care units (NICU) around the state. Many donations come from moms who produce more milk than their baby needs. But some donations come from women who lost a...
Nov. 5, 2024 | LITTLE ROCK — The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) College of Medicine invested Corey O. Montgomery, M.D., an associate professor in the UAMS College of Medicine’s Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, in the Richard W. Nicholas, M.D., & Corey O. Montgomery, M.D., Chair in Orthopaedic Oncology during an Oct. 29 ceremony. “I am so...
Nov. 4, 2024 | The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) recently garnered recognition as a 2024 Digital Health Most Wired organization from the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME).
Nov. 1, 2024 | Nine students from universities in Taiwan and Thailand visited the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) for several weeks of rotations recently as part of a longstanding exchange program with the UAMS College of Pharmacy. The annual tradition, which originated with an agreement in the 1980s, has enabled dozens of students to learn about...
Oct. 31, 2024 | A University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) research team is examining the critical knowledge gap in cefiderocol resistance. En Huang, Ph.D., associate professor in the UAMS Fay W. Boozman College of Public Health Department of Environmental Health Sciences is leading an interdisciplinary research team that will conduct the project, “Mechanisms of Cefiderocol Nonsusceptibility and...