May 2, 2013 | Sara Tariq, M.D., assistant dean for undergraduate clinical education in the UAMS College of Medicine, received the 2013 Outstanding Woman Faculty Award from the college’s Women’s Faculty Development Caucus.
April 30, 2013 | Bobby Wilson put his health and well-being on the backburner in the hard times since being out of work and living without health insurance.
April 29, 2013 | April 29, 2013 | UAMS volunteers and employees shared laughs, lunch, door prizes and even a few tears as their service was recognized April 25 at the annual UAMS Medical Center Volunteer Appreciation Luncheon.
April 26, 2013 | April 26, 2013 | UAMS celebrated its third annual Earth Day event April 23 with exhibitors, tree plantings, plenty of giveaways and a record turnout.
April 24, 2013 | <p class="content">LITTLE ROCK – The fourth annual AR SAVES Telestroke Conference to educate medical professionals on stroke care and the use of telecommunications technology to support stroke treatment will be May 14-15 at the Statehouse Convention Center.</p>
April 19, 2013 | Ninety-nine percent of people with Down syndrome say that they are happy with their lives and 97 percent say they like who they are. These are just two of many positive statistics medical geneticist Brian Skotko, M.D., shared during the Arkansas Down Syndrome Conference on April 12 at UAMS.
April 18, 2013 | April 18, 2013 | The physician assistant program at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) recently received accreditation from the Accreditation Review Commission on Education for the Physician Assistant, the final approval needed before admitting its first class of students.
April 18, 2013 | <p class="content">LITTLE ROCK – The physician assistant program at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) recently received accreditation from the Accreditation Review Commission on Education for the Physician Assistant, the final approval needed before admitting its first class of students.</p>
April 17, 2013 | UAMS hosted “Drug Addiction: Science & Society,” a free symposium on April 15 to teach and discuss the latest drug addiction research, treatment and policy. The symposium featured a national leader on the topic, UAMS faculty members and students and was hosted by the UAMS Translational Research Institute, the UAMS Psychiatric Research Institute, the UAMS Department of Pharmacology & Toxicology and the T32 National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) Training Grant.
April 17, 2013 | April 17, 2013 | Arkansas’ health care workforce will more closely mirror its population and include more underrepresented minorities if a pilot project to be implemented in two Little Rock public schools by UAMS and its partners in the Public Health Leaders Roundtable is successful.