July 5, 2016 | July 5, 2016 | University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) early career researchers Joshua Kennedy, M.D., and Taren Swindle, Ph.D., are recipients of National Institutes of Health (NIH) grants that will support their work over the next several years. In May, Kennedy, whose laboratory is at Arkansas Children’s Hospital Research Institute (ACHRI) on the Arkansas...
July 1, 2016 | July 1, 2016 | If you truly want to make a difference, why not shoot for the moon? That’s the thinking behind the national Cancer Moonshot Initiative, an effort announced by President Barack Obama at the 2016 State of the Union address. The goal of the initiative is to double the rate of progress in...
June 29, 2016 | June 29, 2016 | There was no way it could be this bad, thought Tory Weatherford, M.D., a 2013 UAMS College of Medicine graduate and third-year medical resident at Orlando Regional Medical Center in Orlando, Florida. The evening had been quiet and as the hours shifted from late Saturday night to early Sunday morning on June...
June 28, 2016 | LITTLE ROCK — A team of University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) researchers has received a federal grant to conduct the first comprehensive study of the dangers posed by synthetic marijuana products. The $2.7 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) will enable a seven-member interdisciplinary...
June 27, 2016 | June 27, 2016 | Thirty-eight students in the physician assistant program in the UAMS College of Health Professions donned their white coats for the first time on May 20 and recited an oath to care for their patients. The students are at the beginning of a 28-month master’s degree program that will prepare them to provide...
June 20, 2016 | The Respiratory Care Program was featured in the March issue of The Coalition Chronicle, a newsletter by the Coalition for Baccalaureate and Graduate Respiratory Therapy Education, which advocates for and promotes the bachelor’s degree as the entry level for the profession of respiratory care. Click the button below to read the article:
June 20, 2016 | June 20, 2016 │A national epidemic of drug overdoses was plenty of incentive for University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) and University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) substance abuse researchers to come together at UAMS looking for ways to strengthen their work through collaboration. The 30-plus researchers from the Memphis-based university and about...
June 17, 2016 | June 17, 2016 | A lively crowd of close to 100 business and community leaders from around western Arkansas filled the home of Drs. Terry and David Hunton on June 9 to kick off the inaugural Friends of UAMS – Fort Smith. David Hunton is chief medical officer for Mercy Hospital Fort Smith and a...
June 14, 2016 | The College of Health Professions honored its 72 graduates earning master’s and doctoral degrees at a May 19 academic hooding ceremony, held at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. Faculty members from the various programs invested the graduates with the academic hoods they would wear around their shoulders at UAMS graduation on May 21....
June 10, 2016 | The Gathering for Pacific Islander Health was designed to be a different type of conference — one that didn’t just impart knowledge, but also celebrated a culture.