March 18, 2016 | March 18, 2016 | Countless hours spent in lecture halls, laboratories, study groups and clinical rotations provided 157 soon-to-be graduates of the UAMS College of Medicine with a sealed, white envelope that held their future. The annual Match Day ceremony brought the class of 2016 to the Embassy Suites in Little Rock on March 18....
March 16, 2016 | Discovery Could Lead to Early Detection of Cancer and Other Diseases LITTLE ROCK — A University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) research team led by Vladimir Zharov, Ph.D., D.Sc., is the first to demonstrate noninvasive, remote manipulation of blood and lymph flow in the body. This discovery makes possible several advances, including blood transportation...
March 15, 2016 | March 15, 2016 | Fen Xia, M.D., Ph.D., M.S., an internationally recognized radiation oncologist and physician-scientist, is joining the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) as chair of the Department of Radiation Oncology in the College of Medicine. Xia, who will join the faculty on July 1, 2016, currently serves as a tenured professor...
March 11, 2016 | March 11, 2016 | More than 125 business and community leaders and members of the Rotary Club of Jonesboro enjoyed an afternoon of food and conversation March 8, during the second gathering of the Friends of UAMS – Jonesboro Chapter. The noontime event was held during the rotary club’s weekly meeting at the St. Bernards...
March 9, 2016 | March 9, 2016 | Health care reform in Arkansas stands at a critical juncture, Arkansas Surgeon General Greg Bledsoe, M.D., M.P.H., told members of the Master of Health Administration Alumni Association at their annual luncheon Feb. 26. Bledsoe said the state Legislature’s upcoming vote on Gov. Asa Hutchinson’s revamp of the private option that expanded...
March 8, 2016 | March 8, 2016 | Sarah Kennett, student in our Communication Sciences and Disorder Ph.D. program, has been selected from a competitive pool to participate in the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) 2016 Pathways Program. The program is part of ASHA’s Research Mentoring Network, whose purpose is to foster the “development of researchers in communication sciences and...
March 8, 2016 | March 8, 2016 | Delta Dental of Arkansas Foundation recently presented a $30,000 grant to the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) 12th Street Health & Wellness Center to help pay for additional dental care for patients seen first at the center. Some of center patients are referred for the next level of care to...
March 4, 2016 | Arkansans’ risk of dying from a heart attack increases the farther away they live from hospitals capable of treating them when compared to state residents who live closer, a new study by Arkansas researchers shows. Their death risk can be as much as 26 percent higher, according to the multi-year study led by Appathurai Balamurugan,...
March 4, 2016 | March 4, 2016 | It was a negative encounter with doctors that made Betty Anderson decide to do something about it 21 years ago. Now she hopes more northwest Arkansas residents will join her to give UAMS students a chance to learn better clinical skills through simulated patient experiences. Anderson and two other standardized patients,...
March 3, 2016 | March 3, 2016 | More than a dozen golden shovels turned dirt today marking the start of work on a $10.5 million UAMS Family Medical Center at the corner of South 12th and South E streets in Fort Smith. State legislators, local dignitaries, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Chancellor Dan Rahn, M.D., and UAMS...