March 8, 2016 | March 8, 2016 | Sarah Kennett, student in our Communication Sciences and Disorder Ph.D. program, has been selected from a competitive pool to participate in the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) 2016 Pathways Program. The program is part of ASHA’s Research Mentoring Network, whose purpose is to foster the “development of researchers in communication sciences and...
March 8, 2016 | March 8, 2016 | Delta Dental of Arkansas Foundation recently presented a $30,000 grant to the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) 12th Street Health & Wellness Center to help pay for additional dental care for patients seen first at the center. Some of center patients are referred for the next level of care to...
March 4, 2016 | Arkansans’ risk of dying from a heart attack increases the farther away they live from hospitals capable of treating them when compared to state residents who live closer, a new study by Arkansas researchers shows. Their death risk can be as much as 26 percent higher, according to the multi-year study led by Appathurai Balamurugan,...
March 4, 2016 | March 4, 2016 | It was a negative encounter with doctors that made Betty Anderson decide to do something about it 21 years ago. Now she hopes more northwest Arkansas residents will join her to give UAMS students a chance to learn better clinical skills through simulated patient experiences. Anderson and two other standardized patients,...
March 3, 2016 | March 3, 2016 | More than a dozen golden shovels turned dirt today marking the start of work on a $10.5 million UAMS Family Medical Center at the corner of South 12th and South E streets in Fort Smith. State legislators, local dignitaries, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Chancellor Dan Rahn, M.D., and UAMS...
Feb. 29, 2016 | Feb. 29, 2016 | UAMS celebrated diversity in February with two events in honor of Black History Month. Historian and longtime College of Pharmacy faculty member Jonathan Wolfe, Ph.D., traced connections in his family to the Underground Railroad and the Battle of Helena in Arkansas during the Civil War while speaking Feb. 18 at the...
Feb. 26, 2016 | Feb. 26, 2016 | Pointing to measurements of academic, clinical and research productivity, UAMS Chancellor Dan Rahn, M.D., voiced optimism and pride at the work UAMS is doing in its health and health improvement mission for Arkansas during his annual State of the University report on Feb. 23. However, the university is also facing several...
Feb. 25, 2016 | Feb. 25, 2016 | Students from the UAMS Graduate School presented their research Feb. 19 during the Graduate Student Association (GSA) Symposium, which was held in the BioMed buildings. Eighteen students competed in the poster presentation portion of the symposium while eight students were selected, based on their abstracts, to present oral presentations about their research...
Feb. 23, 2016 | Feb. 23, 2016 | Twelve projects were on display Feb. 10 at the latest Showcase of Medical Discoveries wine-and-cheese event hosted by the UAMS College of Medicine. The series was created to foster communication and collaboration among UAMS researchers. The research featured at the reception in the 10th floor lobby of the UAMS Winthrop P....
Feb. 22, 2016 | LITTLE ROCK — V. Suzanne Klimberg, M.D., a breast surgeon at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), has been elected treasurer of the Southern Surgical Association. Klimberg is director of the Division of Breast and Surgical Oncology and professor of surgery and pathology in the UAMS College of Medicine. She holds the Muriel...