Dec. 16, 2015 | Dec. 16, 2015 | “It’s fun,” said one of 33 high school senior girls filling the UAMS lab as she used an electric drill to put a hole in a simulated bone. Fun was the much-repeated and much-hoped for result of the daylong workshop, part of the Perry Outreach Program hosted Dec. 5 by UAMS....
Dec. 15, 2015 | Dec. 15, 2015 | The Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education has granted maximum accreditation to four programs in the College of Nursing at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), the only university in Arkansas to have all four accredited by the commission. Three programs received 10-year accreditations — Bachelor of Science in Nursing,...
Dec. 14, 2015 | Researchers from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) and other institutions are reporting the discovery of the first broad spectrum drug that can potently kill senescent (or aging) cells in culture and effectively clear the cells in animals by specifically targeting a pathway that is critical for the survival of senescent cells. Findings...
Dec. 12, 2015 | CHP alumnus selected for national post – Aaron Scott, alumnus of the College of Health Profession’s Nuclear Medicine Advanced Associate program (NMAA), was selected this summer to be the 2015-2016 president of the Technologist Section of the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI). He is an NMAA at Piedmont Healthcare System in Fayetteville,...
Dec. 11, 2015 | Dec. 11, 2015 | The Arkansas Research Alliance named UAMS’ Michael Owens, Ph.D., an ARA Fellow during a news conference Dec. 10 at the state Capitol. Owens, who has spent more than 30 years researching the development of medicines to treat drug abuse, particularly methamphetamine, was one of five Fellows presented by Gov. Asa Hutchinson....
Dec. 9, 2015 | Dec. 9, 2015 | Ellyn E. Matthews, Ph.D., R.N., was invested Dec. 7 in the Elizabeth Stanley Cooper Endowed Chair in Oncology Nursing at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS). Matthews is an associate professor in the UAMS College of Nursing. She came to UAMS in July from the University of Colorado where...
Dec. 8, 2015 | Dec. 8, 2015 | The UAMS 12th Street Health & Wellness Center’s made the global local on Dec. 1, observing World AIDS Day by providing 36 patients with free HIV screenings. Most of those 36 people also sought a variety of other free health screenings, including screenings for blood pressure, glucose levels and blood pressure....
Dec. 7, 2015 | Dec. 7, 2015 | When the American Heart Association (AHA) released its updated guidelines on resuscitation in October, Arkansas’ own Steve Schexnayder, M.D., helped lead the way. Schexnayder, a professor of pediatrics and internal medicine at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences who also practices at Arkansas Children’s Hospital, was heavily involved in writing...
Dec. 4, 2015 | Dec. 4, 2015 | The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) has become home to The Cancer Imaging Archive of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) with the transfer to UAMS of more than 40 terabytes of data from the archive’s former home at Washington University in St. Louis. “Through the archive, UAMS has important linkages...
Dec. 4, 2015 | The College of Health Professions recently honored three faculty members for excellence, with its annual Faculty Excellence Awards. Tiffany Lepard-Tassin, M.S., a board-certified genetic counselor and assistant professor in the Department of Genetic Counseling, received the award for Excellence in Service. Her research interest in arterial tortuosity syndrome, a rare autosomal recessive genetic, connective tissue...