April 20, 2016 | April 20, 2016 | Thirteen UAMS medical students met with Pope Moseley, M.D., dean of the College of Medicine, on April 6 at Trio’s Restaurant to discuss the importance of family medicine to UAMS and to the state of Arkansas. Faculty members from the UAMS Department of Family and Preventive Medicine were on hand to...
April 19, 2016 | April 19, 2016 | Arkansans are now able to volunteer for research studies through a new website developed by the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Translational Research Institute. Called ARresearch.org, the website announced today gives Arkansans a place to sign up if they want to be contacted about UAMS studies that are enrolling...
April 18, 2016 | April 18, 2016 | Women in Arkansas will benefit from two grants presented to UAMS by the Arkansas affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure. A grant of $87,642 will assist the UAMS Mobile Mammography Program to continue providing digital screening mammograms to women across Arkansas, with a focus on the 26 counties that...
April 15, 2016 | April 15, 2016 | More than 100 business and community leaders from across south central Arkansas gathered to enjoy an evening of food and conversation April 12, kicking off the inaugural Friends of UAMS – Pine Bluff. The evening event was hosted by George and Debbie Makris at their home in Pine Bluff. George Makris...
April 13, 2016 | April 13, 2016 | Thanks and goodbyes peppered a convivial evening of relaxed socializing and good food at the College of Pharmacy Dean’s Donor Recognition Dinner on March 31 at the Clinton Presidential Center. About 100 people, most of them donors, gathered for the event. Students and faculty joined donors and Dean Keith Olsen, Pharm....
April 12, 2016 | April 12, 2016 | A UAMS graduate student has been selected by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) to participate in a prestigious mentoring program. Sarah Kennett, a Ph.D. candidate in the Communication Sciences and Disorders program of the Graduate School and College of Health Professions, was chosen for the Pathways Program, a mentoring program for early-career...
April 8, 2016 | April 8, 2016 | On the day reserved for his highest individual academic honor, Richard W. Nicholas, M.D., stressed the importance of teamwork. “Everyone remembers Watson and Crick,” he said of the two men who, in 1953, discovered the structure of DNA and later shared a Nobel Prize. “But whatever people remember of what they...
April 8, 2016 | April 8, 2016 | Mark T. Jansen, M.D., of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), was invested April 4 as the inaugural recipient of the Arkansas Blue Cross and Blue Shield, George K. Mitchell, M.D., Endowed Chair in Primary Care. The chair was established with a $1 million grant to UAMS in 2015 from...
April 7, 2016 | April 7, 2016 | Friends of the UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute gathered April 5 to recognize Chancellor Dan Rahn, M.D., as the 2016 Cancer Institute Auxiliary’s Distinguished Honoree. Rahn is the 22nd recipient and third UAMS chancellor to receive this honor from the auxiliary. Former chancellors the late Harry Ward, M.D., and I....
April 6, 2016 | April 6, 2016 | Unused food and food waste from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences’ (UAMS) cafeteria is no longer destined for the landfill thanks to a food recycling program that creates an eco-friendly alternative. Since October, UAMS has donated 12 tons of food waste to Organix, a national food recycling organization that...