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UAMS Graduate School Celebrates at Brunch


The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Graduate School held a Commencement Day brunch May 20 at the Embassy Suites Hotel in Little Rock. The brunch, attended by faculty, family, staff, and students, preceded UAMS’ commencement later in the day and celebrated the Class of 2023. Graduate School Dean Robert E. McGehee, Jr., Ph.D.,…

Dr. Robert McGehee

May 25, 2023


UAMS Obesity Center Participates in Meeting Focused on Promoting Health Equity in Little Rock


The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Fay W. Boozman College of Public Health Center for the Study of Obesity recently hosted a meeting titled “Advancing Health Equity through Little Rock Community Schools” at the Winthrop Rockefeller Institute. Little Rock Community Schools is a collaboration between the City of Little Rock and the Little Rock…

Thomsen speaks

May 24, 2023


UAMS-TRI Training Program Helps Postdocs Develop Entrepreneurial Spirit, Form Competition-Winning Pharmaceutical Startup


Only two years ago, the idea of commercializing their future research discoveries was a novel concept for Julia Tobacyk, Ph.D., and Megan Reed, Ph.D. Today they can say they created a startup company as postdoctoral fellows in the Health Sciences Innovation and Entrepreneurship (HSIE) training program, which is the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) National…

Megan Reed, Ph.D. (left), and Julia Tobacyk, Ph.D., formed the company Pediatrica Therapeutics.


College of Pharmacy Sees 100% Postgraduate Attainment Rate for 2023


Twenty-one UAMS College of Pharmacy seniors announced their postgraduate residency positions May 11 as their classmates, family and friends looked on and applauded. The college announced that each student who applied for a residency received one, for a perfect 100% rate. Six alumni also matched to second-year positions in their specialty. At the ceremony, held…

Pharmacy Postgraduates 2023


UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute Names Monique Spillman, M.D., Ph.D., as Gynecologic Oncology Chief


Board-certified gynecologic oncologist Monique Spillman, M.D., Ph.D., has joined the Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) as chief of the Division of Gynecologic Oncology. She is also co-director of cancer services and a professor in the UAMS College of Medicine Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Prior to…

Doctor in white coat


UAMS Surgeons Implant Innovative Device Developed by I3R Researchers to Restore Sense of Touch after Amputation


LITTLE ROCK — The first Arkansan and only second person in the world has received an innovative prosthetic hand, developed by researchers at the Institute for Integrative and Innovative Research (I³R), that restores a meaningful sense of touch and grip force following surgery at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS). The lengthy and…

Erika Petersen, M.D., seated, pauses to look at a monitor as the surgery begins with (l-r) John Bracey, M.D., Brooke Elberson, M.D., Ph.D., Bridgette Vinyard-Hartwick, and Mark Tait, M.D. (photo by Evan Lewis)

May 23, 2023


Researchers, Community Organizations Take Part in Maternal and Child Health Summit


The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Fay W. Boozman College of Public Health Department of Health Behavior and Health Education (HBHE) presented the 2023 Maternal and Child Health Summit. During the summit, researchers, health care professionals and community organizations learned about trends and solutions related to maternal and child health in Arkansas. “Our…

Alex Marshall


UAMS Graduates 1,096 Health Care Professionals


LITTLE ROCK — The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) today conferred degrees and certificates to 1,096 students in its five colleges and graduate school. Degrees and certificates were awarded to 157 students in the College of Medicine, 210 in the College of Nursing, 524 in the College of Health Professions, 76 in the…

Graduates of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences walk in a line at the 2023 commencement ceremony.

May 22, 2023


UAMS College of Nursing Hosts Lecture on Cancer Survivorship


The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) College of Nursing hosted Karen E. Wickersham, Ph.D., RN, of the University of South Carolina for a lecture about her research on cancer survivorship. Wickersham, assistant professor at the Cancer Survivorship Research Center in the University of South Carolina College of Nursing, spoke to UAMS College of…

Karen E. Wickersham, Ph.D., RN, talks about cancer survivorship as part of the Dalme-Rickel Visiting Lectureship in Oncology/Community Health.


UAMS, Project SEARCH Celebrate Decade of Partnership, 10th Graduating Class


Along with the 10th class of students to graduate from Project SEARCH on May 16, UAMS and Project SEARCH also reached a milestone – 10 years of working together for the benefit of those students.

UAMS Chancellor Cam Patterson, third from right, stands with UAMS Project SEARCH 2023 graduates, left: Colby Fountain, Jakiyah Williams, Courtney Carroll, Carson Patty, Chase Caterbury, Patterson, Ranal Freeman II and Abby Bogoslavsky

May 19, 2023


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