Oct. 15, 2008 | An investiture ceremony held Oct. 8 was twice as nice for the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Harvey and Bernice Jones Eye Institute as two of its faculty members received endowed chairs established by gifts from two longtime UAMS supporters.
Oct. 13, 2008 | A slate of speakers including the Mexican consul to the region, an appeals court judge and a Little Rock cardiologist highlighted the 12th Annual Diversity Week, Sept. 22-26, at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS).
Oct. 8, 2008 | White coats were distributed to 79 University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) graduate students celebrating the initiation of their dissertation research at the inaugural Research Induction Ceremony for doctoral candidates.
Oct. 6, 2008 | The first time Anton Valavanis, M.D., tried to visit the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) to speak, he braved an icy taxi ride from Dallas to Little Rock only to find the event had been cancelled by the ice storm of 2000.
Aug. 27, 2008 | LITTLE ROCK – Nationally known, board-certified genetics expert G. Bradley Schaefer, M.D., has been appointed the inaugural director of the Division of Genetics in the College of Medicine at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS).
July 29, 2008 | LITTLE ROCK – A new Division of Genetics at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) focuses education, patient care and research resources to realize the potential of genetic information for customized treatments and early detection of disease.
April 25, 2007 | LITTLE ROCK – Paul Thaxton has been named director for the Division of Nuclear Medicine Imaging Sciences at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS).
Oct. 17, 2005 | LITTLE ROCK – Classes will start in January 2006 in the new Genetic Counseling degree program at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS). The program recently received provisional accreditation from the American Board of Genetic Counseling.
Feb. 17, 2004 | LITTLE ROCK – Universities in Arkansas, Kansas, Nebraska, and Oklahoma will share resources to use the exploding knowledge of genetic medical conditions in health care, thanks to an appropriation championed by U.S. Sen. Blanche Lambert Lincoln for a consortium spearheaded by the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS). The Congress appropriated $1.3 million for...