Aug. 24, 2016 | Aug. 24, 2016 | Amanda Compadre, a third-year medical student at UAMS, is grateful to have been named a 2016 AMA Foundation Minority Scholarship Award recipient by the American Medical Association, but more importantly, she hopes this inspires more people from minority backgrounds to pursue a career in medicine. “It’s a national, prestigious award that...
Aug. 23, 2016 | Aug. 23, 2016 | Bank of America continued its stalwart support for the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) with a $24,500 corporate foundation gift given to the UAMS Center for Diversity Affairs at an August 23 presentation. The check was presented by Donnie Cook, Arkansas state president and Little Rock market president for Bank...
Aug. 19, 2016 | Aug. 19, 2016 | Underserved and underrepresented students will continue to have expanded opportunities to explore the sciences, as the UAMS Summer Undergraduate Research Program to Increase Diversity in Research has been funded for an additional five years. Originally funded 2011-2016 with a $250,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) National Heart, Lung...
Aug. 18, 2016 | Editor’s Note: McKinley Middle Magnet School thanks UAMS and Little Rock for sending supplies after the floods. Aug. 18, 2016 | The Graduate Student Association (GSA) is collecting school supplies and toiletries for students at the McKinley Middle Academic Magnet School for Visual and Performing Arts in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. At least 12 people have died...
Aug. 16, 2016 | Aug. 16, 2016 | So many great things are happening with autism research, outreach and community engagement that it’s hard to fit it all into one event. “We would need twice, thrice the size of this room if we included everything that we are doing in autism research,” said Maya Lopez, M.D., UAMS associate professor...
Aug. 12, 2016 | Aug. 12, 2016 | UAMS researchers at a new National Institutes of Health-funded center will be working hard to shrink a number — the 39 percent of the state’s children who are overweight or obese. Funded by a $9.4 million, five-year grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), UAMS researcher Judith Weber, Ph. D.,...
Aug. 11, 2016 | The Walmart Foundation has given $750,000 to support the Northwest Arkansas Community Internal Medicine Residency Program, a partnership of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), Mercy Health System Northwest Arkansas in Rogers and the Veterans Health Care System of the Ozarks.
Aug. 10, 2016 | Aug. 10, 2016 | The 174 freshmen in the UAMS College of Medicine’s class of 2020 donned white coats Aug. 5 in a ceremony symbolizing the start of their journey toward becoming physicians. Before a crowd of family, friends and loved ones at the Statehouse Convention Center, the students first recited the medical student oath...
Aug. 9, 2016 | Aug. 9, 2016 | Patricia A. Cowan, Ph.D. R.N., dean of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) College of Nursing, was invested Aug. 4 in the Linda C. Hodges Dean’s Chair. Cowan succeeds Lorraine Frazier, who left UAMS last year, as both the chair and dean. Cowan began at UAMS on Nov. 9,...
Aug. 2, 2016 | Aug. 2, 2016 | As U.S. Rep. French Hill walked into the UAMS Medical Center’s Emergency Department, a trauma patient arrived on a gurney after transport there by helicopter. Secured to the gurney and bandaged, the patient was wheeled into an examination room. Hill was there to witness firsthand the operation of the state’s only...