March 18, 2025 | The Lambda Nu National Honor Society Chapter in the UAMS College of Health Professions on March 10 inducted 47 new student members, the largest total ever since the chapter’s founding in 2018. Lambda Nu is a national honor society for the radiologic and imaging sciences. The UAMS chapter brings together students in the Diagnostic Medical...
March 18, 2025 | The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) College of Pharmacy Class of 2026 received commemorative pins marking their transition to patient care during ceremonies held in Little Rock on March 7 and Fayetteville on March 10. Thirty-nine students in Little Rock and 14 students in Fayetteville participated in the ceremonies, held at their respective...
March 17, 2025 | The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) has welcomed Julie Windholz, M.D., as a new physician at the Thomas and Lyon Longevity Clinic in the Donald W. Reynolds Institute on Aging. Windholz also serves as an assistant professor in the UAMS College of Medicine’s Department of Geriatrics. She started in her new roles after...
March 17, 2025 | LITTLE ROCK — The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) and Walmart are collaborating to increase access to nutritious food across Arkansas. Through the collaboration, participants in select research projects at the UAMS Institute for Community Health Innovation will receive Walmart Wellness Benefit cards to be specifically used at Walmart stores for various health-related...
March 14, 2025 | Visanu Wanchai, Ph.D. Visanu Wanchai, Ph.D., is a postdoctoral fellow with the UAMS College of Medicine. He earned his doctorate in biomedical informatics from UAMS in 2020 and joined the Myeloma Center in 2022. His focus is developing leading-edge computational tools and employing high-performance computing techniques for single cell analysis to investigate key genes and...
March 14, 2025 | Myeloma patients face several issues, one being compromised immune systems that make them more prone to infection. The UAMS Division of Infectious Diseases plays an important role in ensuring patients are in the best position to continue their cancer treatment. Under the direction of Michael Saccente, M.D., the Division of Infectious Diseases is part of...
March 14, 2025 | By Frits van Rhee, M.D., Ph.D. Castleman disease was first described in 1954 by Benjamin Castleman, M.D., longtime chief of the Division of Anatomic Pathology at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. Patients with Castleman disease have enlargement of one or more lymph node areas. Patients who have the disease in one area, unicentric Castleman disease,...
March 14, 2025 | At the UAMS Myeloma Center, Fenghuang (Frank) Zhan, M.D., Ph.D., knows that research plays an immensely important role in the fight against multiple myeloma. Numerous federal grants allow the center’s director of research and his team to continue to advance and improve treatments, benefitting myeloma patients around the world. The latest is a $1.1 million...
March 14, 2025 | Multiple myeloma treatment is advancing with the advent of bispecific antibody drugs, which use the patient’s T cells to fight the disease. Myeloma Center physicians and researchers Carolina Schinke, M.D., and Samer Al Hadidi, M.D., M.S., are leading clinical trials exploring combinations of these novel therapies. Schinke’s trial is studying the effects of using teclistamab...
March 14, 2025 | Rob Guba, Burke Moran and Chris Seab grew up together in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. When Seab was diagnosed with multiple myeloma in May 2024, Guba and Moran decided to do something. That something is a project called Wheeling for Healing, a cross-country e-bike ride to raise money not only in support of their friend but...