Nov. 3, 2016 | Nov. 3, 2016 | Health and medicine in the 1890s German community in Arkansas was the topic at the 35th annual meeting of the Society for the History of Medicine and the Health Professions on Oct. 29 at the UAMS Donald W. Reynolds Institute on Aging. Kathleen Condray, Ph.D., associate professor of German at the...
Nov. 1, 2016 | Nov. 1, 2016 | Experience was the name of the game at the UAMS Graduate Student Association Research Symposium – experience developing posters, giving presentations and even organizing a symposium. Thirty UAMS Graduate School students participated in the Oct. 28 event, which was held in both the Helen Guinn Adams Atrium and the Rayford Auditorium...
Oct. 27, 2016 | Oct. 27, 2016 | UAMS students visited KIPP Delta Collegiate High School in Helena recently to share with the nearly college-bound students the vast opportunities and careers in health care. The event, Raising Exposure & Awareness of Careers in Health (REACH) in the Delta, gave more than one hundred 11th and 12th grade students the...
Oct. 25, 2016 | Oct. 25, 2016 | Patients’ health literacy, known as the ability to understand and use health information, greatly affects their well-being. The topic is gaining attention, and recently the UAMS Center for Health Literacy helped get the word out through the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) news website. AAMCNews at news.aamc.org recently turned to...
Oct. 21, 2016 | On Saturday, October 15, 2016, several of our students from the Physical Therapy program in Northwest Arkansas participated in this year’s Physical Therapy Day of Service. About 15 of our students helped provide over 7,000 meals to hungry families in Northwest Arkansas. We here at UAMS are very proud of the contributions our organization provides to...
Oct. 21, 2016 | Oct. 21, 2016 | To bring life to a state’s life sciences sector, working together is key, and the Arkansas Life Sciences Summit keynote speaker Patrick Plues could see that spirit in abundance as he looked at his audience. About 100 entrepreneurs, investors and research scientists gathered at the summit in Conway on Oct. 19...
Oct. 20, 2016 | Oct. 20, 2016 | UAMS professor William Golden, M.D., recently spoke about the future of health care funding at a NEJM Catalyst event that was live-streamed online to facilitate discussion among health care leaders across the globe. A project of the New England Journal of Medicine, NEJM Catalyst offers articles, events, podcasts and case studies...
Oct. 18, 2016 | Oct. 18, 2016 | A doctoral degree in biomedical sciences is just the first step along a career path that can lead to lots of different places – many of them unexpected. “Make the most of your Ph.D. and let your passion drive you. Take risks, fall, get back up – most of all, enjoy...
Oct. 17, 2016 | Oct. 17, 2016 | More than 300 family members and friends, along with UAMS College of Nursing faculty, staff, alumni and supporters, watched Oct. 7 as junior Bachelor of Science in Nursing students received their white coats. The ceremony marked the passage into the clinical phase of the students’ nursing education. The class of 2018...
Oct. 14, 2016 | Oct. 14, 2016 | Richard Turnage, M.D., has been named vice chancellor for clinical programs for the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) and CEO of UAMS Medical Center, effective Dec. 1. He succeeds Roxane Townsend, M.D., who left UAMS at the end of September. “After conducting a national search, it was clear to me and...