Dec. 4, 2015 | December 4, 2015 | The College of Health Professions awarded more than $52,000 in scholarships for 2015-2016, a record amount for the college. The college celebrated its scholars, its growing number of scholarships and scholarship donors at its annual scholarship reception on Nov. 5. Thirty-nine students representing many of the college’s academic programs received 46...
Dec. 4, 2015 | Dec. 4, 2015 | There was much to be thankful for at the Soles4Souls event Nov. 19 at River City Ministry in North Little Rock. For the homeless and others in need, there was medical care for their feet, new socks and sturdy boots — just in time for winter. For the UAMS doctors and...
Dec. 3, 2015 | Dec. 3, 2015 | When Mary Cantrell and the simulation education team at UAMS were offered the opportunity to train the staff at Princess Nora Bint Abdulrahman University in Saudi Arabia, they jumped at the chance. But there was one problem. The UAMS team included men, and Princess Nora is the largest all-women university in...
Dec. 2, 2015 | Dec. 2, 2015 | Torrential rains couldn’t keep a steady stream of visitors from turning out to tour the new UAMS Neighborhood Clinic on Nov. 17. Although the weather outside was definitely frightful, dozens of members of the Maumelle community, including Mayor Mike Watson, stopped by the open house to chat with the staff and...
Dec. 1, 2015 | Dec. 1, 2015 | The UAMS College of Nursing hosted about 40 students from nine area high schools Nov. 7 for a day-long event that allowed them to imagine a career in nursing. The “Day in the Life of a Nurse” event was sponsored by the Growing Our Own in the Delta (GOOD) Program, which...
Nov. 30, 2015 | Nov. 30, 2015 | Students, faculty and staff picked up shovels Nov. 12 to plant eight trees on campus. The plantings were a service learning project of Tree Campus USA, a program that recognizes and encourages best practices in campus community forestry. Planted along Hooper Drive on the hill in front of the Admin West...
Nov. 25, 2015 | Nov. 25, 2015 | Brothers Ronald and J.C. Skipper don’t need to tell you about the virtues of home caregiving and love of family. They can just show it to you. When their mother, Willie Mae Skipper, began showing symptoms of vascular dementia at her home in Clarksdale, Miss., J.C. Skipper moved her to his...
Nov. 25, 2015 | Nov. 25, 2015 | Looking back, his dad having a mini-stroke in 1995 while visiting him at a golf tournament was a harbinger of things to come, said CBS Sports commentator Jim Nantz. That stroke, together with other similar episodes of mini-strokes and transient ischemic attacks (TIAs), led to an eventual diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease...
Nov. 24, 2015 | Nov. 24, 2015 | Twenty-five community groups were honored Nov. 13 for their contributions to research at the 3rd annual Community Partner Celebration sponsored by the UAMS Translational Research Institute. The celebration, at the Center at University Park in Little Rock, included welcome remarks from institute Director Laura James, M.D., and UAMS Chancellor Dan Rahn, M.D....
Nov. 23, 2015 | Nov. 23, 2015 | A UAMS physician-scientist has received a $764,000 contract from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to study a new method for lung cancer screening. Donald J. Johann Jr., M.D., will use the funding to determine if a simple blood test can detect lung cancer at an early stage, when the cancer...