Nov. 21, 2014 | Nov. 21 | Jim Raczynski, Ph.D., dean of the Fay W. Boozman College of Public Health, and his wife, Martha Phillips, Ph.D., associate professor of epidemiology, have pledged a planned estate gift of $1 million to UAMS to establish the Raczynski Phillips Bruce Chair in Social Determinants of Health.
Nov. 19, 2014 | LITTLE ROCK<b> - Pedro L. Delgado, M.D., chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) and director of the UAMS Psychiatric Research Institute, has been named the holder of the Marie Wilson Howells Chair in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. Delgado was awarded the endowed chair at a formal ceremony held Nov. 5 at UAMS.-
Nov. 18, 2014 | Nov. 18, 2014 | The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) celebrated the recent opening of a comprehensive rehabilitation clinic on its <a href="http://northwestcampus.uams.edu/">northwest Arkansas regional campus</a> in Fayetteville, improving access to physical, occupational and speech rehabilitation services.
Nov. 17, 2014 | Nov. 17, 2014 | A day-long event welcomed almost 200 lung cancer experts, survivors and advocates to discuss the latest information in the fight against America's deadliest cancer.
Nov. 14, 2014 | Nov. 14, 2014 | University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) researcher Vladimir Zharov, Ph.D., D.Sc., recently was awarded a $1.5 million R01 grant by the National Institutes of Health to investigate his diagnostic concept — “In vivo reading written in blood” — with new stimuli-responsive nanoparticles circulating in blood.
Nov. 7, 2014 | Nov. 7, 2014 | Dozens of veterans in attendance and hundreds more employed by UAMS were honored at an appreciation breakfast, at which the university itself was presented with the state's highest honor for an employer's service to its veterans.
Nov. 7, 2014 | What motivates one person to quit smoking may not motivate another. That’s why successful tobacco cessation programs are designed to address the needs of individuals and offer a variety of support systems for kicking the habit.
Nov. 6, 2014 | Nov. 6, 2014 | In the next 21 months, RxResults, a pharmacy risk management company owned in part by UAMS, plans to add 20-30 more jobs to its workforce of 10, thanks to a $4 million capital investment.
Nov. 5, 2014 | The 15th U.S. Surgeon General, the doctor who performed the world’s first kidney transplant, and the first African-American to be admitted to the UAMS College of Medicine were among seven with UAMS ties honored recently for their contributions to civil rights in the medical field in Arkansas.
Oct. 31, 2014 | Oct. 31, 2014 | Though it was a day for spooks and specters outside, the Hospital Lobby Gallery was very much alive and in altogether more uplifting spirits during the Halloween noon hour as employees gathered to enjoy the 2014 Fall Follies talent show.