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COP’s Johnson elected to Executive Committee of American Pharmacists Association Academy
Christopher Johnson, Pharm.D., M.Ed., was recently elected as a member-at-large on the executive committee for the Academy of Pharmacy Practice and Management – one of three academies within the American Pharmacists Association (APhA).

October 20, 2021
UAMS Named Top 10% in Nation for Joint Replacement
LITTLE ROCK — The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) ranks among the top 10% in the nation for joint replacement surgery for the second year in a row, according to Healthgrades, the leading resource that connects consumers, physicians and health systems.

Tags: Featured Announcements, Healthgrades Joint Replacement Excellence Award, UAMS Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
October 19, 2021
College of Nursing Class of 2023 Dons White Coats as Clinical Training Begins
A sea of black-clad nursing students was gradually transformed into a sea of white-coated clinicians as the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) College of Nursing Class of 2023 gathered Oct. 8 in the Fred W. Smith Auditorium to celebrate the students’ transition to the clinical part of their education. As the ceremony in…

October 18, 2021
UAMS Receives INSIGHT Into Diversity’s 2021 Health Professions HEED Award
The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences has received the 2021 Health Professions Higher Education Excellence in Diversity (HEED) Award from INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine, the oldest and largest diversity-focused publication in higher education. As a recipient of the annual award, UAMS will be featured along with 50 other recipients in the December 2021 issue…

Two Sisters Battle Breast Cancer at UAMS
Like many sisters, April Biggs and Amber Vanaman have shared a lot as siblings. Just one year apart, they shared a bedroom and clothes growing up in Paragould, Arkansas, and have some of same facial features — definitely the same smile. But they never expected to share a life-threatening disease. Biggs was diagnosed with Stage…

October 15, 2021
UAMS Remembers Those Mourning Infant and Pregnancy Loss
As the sun set Oct. 7, doctors, nurses, social workers, pastoral care and genetic counselors gathered at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) to remember more than 250 perinatal losses at UAMS during the past year. “Parents, grandparents, siblings and other family members want to know that their children are loved and remembered,”…

Tags: Day of Remembrance Ceremony, Love Lives Bereavement Program, NICU, Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month, Sara Peeples, UAMS neonatal intensive care unit
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
These programs were first broadcast the week of October 18, 2021.

October 14, 2021
UAMS Celebrates Completion of New, $50 Million Electrical Power Plant at Little Rock Campus
LITTLE ROCK — The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) today celebrated the completion of a new $50 million electrical power plant on the east side of its Little Rock campus.

Tags: Featured Announcements
Culinary Medicine Program Opens New Kitchen
What used to be a space where people could eat lunch is now a place where people will make lunches and other meals as part of the UAMS Culinary Medicine Program. On Oct. 5, the program reached a milestone in its brief history as it formally opened its new Culinary Medicine Kitchen.

- College of Health Professions
- Department of Physician Assistant Studies
- Inside News
- Master of Physician Assistant Studies Program
- University News
Tags: Featured Announcements
Children’s Tumor Foundation Joins with UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute to Pilot Clinic for Adults with Neurofibromatosis
LITTLE ROCK—The Children’s Tumor Foundation and the Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences are pleased to announce plans for the first dedicated Neurofibromatosis Adult Clinic in the region.

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