May 7, 2024 | More than 96 front-line caregivers from hospitals across Arkansas came together in Little Rock to attend an April 24 workshop aimed at improving perinatal care. An additional 24 participants tuned in to the workshop virtually. The all-day workshop, held on the second floor of the I. Dodd Wilson Education Building on the UAMS Little Rock...
May 2, 2024 | The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences’ (UAMS) honored members of the Society of the Double Helix during an April 18 reception held in the Cultural Living Room at the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts in Little Rock. The Society of the Double Helix was established by what is now known as the UAMS Board...
May 2, 2024 | LITTLE ROCK — The Arkansas Perinatal Quality Collaborative (ARPQC), a partnership launched last year between the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), the Arkansas Department of Health and 34 birthing hospitals across the state, launched its new website recently, creating a hub for patients and health care providers alike to access pivotal information related...
May 1, 2024 | LITTLE ROCK — The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Medical Center earned an “A” Hospital Safety Grade from The Leapfrog Group, a national nonprofit that awards letter grades to general hospitals around the country based on more than 30 measures of errors, accidents, injuries and infections as well as the systems that hospitals have in place to prevent them.
May 1, 2024 | Nithya Neelakantan, Ph.D., has joined the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Fay W. Boozman College of Public Health as an associate professor in the Department of Epidemiology. Neelakantan earned her master’s degree in biostatistics from Christian Medical College (CMC) in India and a doctorate in epidemiology from Saw Swee Hock School of Public...
May 1, 2024 | Leonie DeClerk, Ph.D., DNP, APRN, clinical associate professor in the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) College of Nursing, has been named as a 2024 inductee in the Fellows of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners program. The prestigious program recognizes nurse practitioners for their outstanding achievements and exemplary service in the areas of...
April 30, 2024 | The College of Medicine at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) celebrated the excellence of faculty and staff at its annual Dean’s Honor Day ceremony on April 16, presenting awards for teaching, clinical care, research, administration, humanism and service.
April 30, 2024 | LITTLE ROCK — The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) invites the public to attend a lecture series on medicine and sustainability on May 16 with a presentation by Stephen T. Jackson, Ph.D., scientist emeritus at the U.S. Geological Survey.
April 29, 2024 | New treatments for Parkinson’s disease, including drugs that researchers at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) have been working on for years, will finally become available in pharmacies this year, Rohit Dhall, M.D., predicted at the recent Ninth Annual Parkinson’s Symposium at UAMS. Dhall, who is also the medical director of the UAMS...
April 29, 2024 | FAYETTEVILLE — Marshallese women who move to the United States may be less likely to exclusively breastfeed their children as they struggle to find appropriate education and support systems, according to researchers from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Institute for Community Health Innovation. UAMS researchers found Marshallese women living in the U.S....