Nov. 12, 2025 | Over the past year, the UAMS Institute for Digital Health & Innovation’s Brain Injury Program has begun a major initiative to help law enforcement better recognize and respond to people with traumatic brain injury (TBI), aiming to promote safer encounters and deescalate incidents. Already the program has trained hundreds of officers and continues to gain...
Nov. 10, 2025 | The Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) chapter at Arkadelphia High School is marking its seventh year of supporting the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) MammoVan, a mobile mammography program that provides lifesaving breast cancer screening to women across the Arkansas. What began as a simple pink T-shirt fundraiser in 2018 has grown...
Nov. 10, 2025 | LITTLE ROCK — The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) awarded 14 grants totaling $273,072 at the annual Chancellor’s Circle Grant Awards ceremony held Nov. 3 at the William J. Clinton Presidential Library & Museum. The Chancellor’s Circle is UAMS’ premier annual giving society. Through its unrestricted annual giving, this group of dedicated members...
Nov. 7, 2025 | Treneica McKnight’s breast cancer journey began in February 2024 with a nagging thought about the mammograms she had missed.
Nov. 7, 2025 | LITTLE ROCK — The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) College of Medicine invested Tim Langford, M.D., professor and chair of the Department of Urology in the College of Medicine, in the Steven K. Wilson Endowed Chair in Prosthetic Urology during an Oct. 28 ceremony. “This is a tremendous honor for me, and I...
Nov. 6, 2025 | More than 200 people convened on a Saturday morning at the Little Rock Zoo to raise awareness and funding for programs at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) that support those who are living with Parkinson’s disease and related neurological conditions. Participants in UAMS’ inaugural Parkinsonism Walk, held Nov. 1, followed a 0.3-mile...
Nov. 6, 2025 | LITTLE ROCK — The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) received a $250,000 gift from Marcia M. Smith to create the Phillip Lance Smith, M.D., Fund for Excellence in Interventional Radiology for the benefit of the UAMS Department of Radiology in the College of Medicine. The gift was made in recognition of Smith’s late...
Nov. 4, 2025 | Arkansas native Chad E. Cragle, M.D., Ph.D., has joined the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) as a surgical oncologist specializing in the treatment of cancers of the liver, pancreatic and biliary system. A board-certified surgeon, Cragle also serves as assistant professor in the Division of Surgical Oncology in the UAMS College of Medicine....
Nov. 3, 2025 | Keneshia Bryant-Moore, Ph.D., APRN, will serve as chair of the patient engagement advisory panel (PEAP) for the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI). A professor in the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Fay W. Boozman College of Public Health’s Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, Bryant-Moore joins other researchers, patients, policy experts and...
Nov. 3, 2025 | LITTLE ROCK — Cardiologist Jorge Saucedo, M.D., MBA, joined the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) as a professor and chair of the Department of Internal Medicine, effective Nov. 1. “Dr. Saucedo is a highly regarded cardiologist who brings over 25 years of leadership experience to his new role at UAMS, where he started...