Dec. 29, 2015 | As the inaugural physical therapy class at the UAMS northwest Arkansas campus in Fayetteville finishes its first semester, students are as enthusiastic as ever. Student Scott Van Camp finds it both humbling and exciting to be a part of the first class headed by John Jefferson, Ph.D., chair of the Department of Physical Therapy in...
Dec. 28, 2015 | Dec. 28, 2015 | UAMS experienced a year of growth and transformation in 2015 that reached all areas of patient care, education and research. During this time of development, UAMS saw many changes in leadership. In January, Jeanne Heard, M.D., Ph.D., announced her retirement as provost effective June 30 after more forty years at UAMS....
Dec. 23, 2015 | Dec. 23, 2015 | The American Heart Association has recognized UAMS as a “Fit Friendly Company,” for being an employer that “goes above and beyond when it comes to their employees’ health.” Among the requirements to be named “Fit Friendly” are offering employees physical activity support, increasing healthy eating options at work and promoting a...
Dec. 18, 2015 | Dec. 18, 2015 | Three UAMS Medical Center employees were honored Dec. 14 with The Eli Award for going above and beyond to care for two hospital patients. Sonia Criswell, R.N., Amber Danner, R.N., and Libby Grobmyer, associate clinical chaplain, received the awards. “These women exemplify the loving, compassionate care our family received when our twins...
Dec. 17, 2015 | Here are recent achievements by members of the College of Health Professions faculty. Jennifer Vincenzo, Ph.D., M.P.H., an assistant professor in the Department of Physical Therapy, was selected in November for a 2016 fellowship for junior faculty by the Geriatric Workforce Enhancement Program administered by the Donald W. Reynolds Institute on Aging. The fellowship program...
Dec. 17, 2015 | Dec. 17, 2015 | Twenty preschoolers jingled and jangled their way through the UAMS halls Dec. 11, singing holiday songs and spreading lots of cheer. The children from the Martin Luther King Jr. Head Start school visited UAMS to sing for Chancellor Dan Rahn, M.D., and others on campus. “The kids look forward to the...
Dec. 16, 2015 | Dec. 16, 2015 | “It’s fun,” said one of 33 high school senior girls filling the UAMS lab as she used an electric drill to put a hole in a simulated bone. Fun was the much-repeated and much-hoped for result of the daylong workshop, part of the Perry Outreach Program hosted Dec. 5 by UAMS....
Dec. 15, 2015 | Dec. 15, 2015 | The Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education has granted maximum accreditation to four programs in the College of Nursing at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), the only university in Arkansas to have all four accredited by the commission. Three programs received 10-year accreditations — Bachelor of Science in Nursing,...
Dec. 14, 2015 | Researchers from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) and other institutions are reporting the discovery of the first broad spectrum drug that can potently kill senescent (or aging) cells in culture and effectively clear the cells in animals by specifically targeting a pathway that is critical for the survival of senescent cells. Findings...
Dec. 12, 2015 | CHP alumnus selected for national post – Aaron Scott, alumnus of the College of Health Profession’s Nuclear Medicine Advanced Associate program (NMAA), was selected this summer to be the 2015-2016 president of the Technologist Section of the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI). He is an NMAA at Piedmont Healthcare System in Fayetteville,...