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...
Sept. 26, 2016 | Sept. 26, 2016 | Former U.S. Surgeon General M. Joycelyn Elders, M.D., was recently inducted into the Arkansas Women’s Hall of Fame in a ceremony at the Statehouse Convention Center. Elders, an emeritus professor of pediatrics and distinguished professor of public health for the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), was appointed U.S. surgeon...
Sept. 23, 2016 | Sept. 23, 2016 | Approximately 200 business and community leaders from across northwest Arkansas gathered Sept. 14 at the invitation of Johnelle Hunt to launch the inaugural chapter of Friends of UAMS – Northwest Arkansas. Held on the spacious 10th floor of the recently opened Hunt Tower in Rogers, guests enjoyed an evening of food...
Sept. 21, 2016 | Sept. 21, 2016 | The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) has been awarded $41.8 million from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to oversee a 17-site pediatric clinical trial network that will provide medically underserved and rural children access to clinical studies studying environmental influences on early development. UAMS will be the Data...
Sept. 19, 2016 | Sept. 19, 2016 | Dan W. Rahn, M.D., chancellor of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) since 2009, announced today that he plans to retire effective July 31, 2017. During Rahn’s tenure at UAMS, the state’s only academic health sciences university and largest public employer, has undergone a significant transformation, expanding educational, clinical...
Sept. 16, 2016 | LITTLE ROCK — Sheldon Riklon, M.D., one of only two Marshallese physicians in the world who has completed medical school and residency training from U.S.-accredited programs, has been invested as the inaugural holder of the Peter O. Kohler, M.D., Endowed Distinguished Professorship in Health Disparities.