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UAMS Chancellor Cam Patterson, M.D., MBA, Stepping Down
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Chancellor Cam Patterson, M.D., MBA, announced today that he will step down as leader of the state’s only academic health sciences university once a transition plan is in place.
June 10, 2025
College of Public Health Alumna Works to Prevent the Spread of Diseases
Zuakernah Belo, MPH, finds her duties for the Arkansas Department of Health challenging, yet highly rewarding. An alumna of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Fay W. Boozman College of Public Health, Belo is an HIV prevention program manager in the health department’s infectious disease branch. Informing Arkansans on the dangers of diseases…
Physician Assistant Class of 2027 Don White Coats
The Class of 2027 Physician Assistant students began their studies a month ago, and on May 23 they donned their white coats for the first time in a ceremony marking the formal start of their professional education at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS). The ceremony represents a rite of passage as students…
UAMS and University of Arkansas Hope-Texarkana Partner to Offer College Credit to Doula Trainees
LITTLE ROCK — Participants in the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Institute for Community Health Innovation’s doula training program are now able to receive college credit, thanks to a continued partnership between UAMS and the University of Arkansas Hope-Texarkana (UAHT). By coupling this program with the state’s passage of the Healthy Moms, Healthy…
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June 9, 2025
First Dual Fellow in Pediatrics Hematology / Oncology and Clinical Informatics Receives Top Honors, Job Offer
Andrew Tran was halfway through college in Austin, Texas, waffling between a future in biochemistry and astrophysics, when he got a job as a cashier in the gift shop at Dell Children’s Hospital. The cash register was a little difficult to operate, but the job was OK otherwise. Then one day, the hospital was short-staffed…
June 6, 2025
Local Mother Donates Gift Baskets for UAMS’ Newborns in Honor of Her Stillborn Son
For Mallory Weatherford, there was never a doubt where the gift baskets she created in honor of her son, Carson, were going.
Latest NWA Health Summit Focuses on ‘Meeting People Where They Are’
The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Institute for Community Health Innovation brought together health care professionals and thought leaders at the Northwest Arkansas Health Summit on May 21 to strategize ways to meet communities where they are to improve health across Arkansas. The summit was supported by Heartland Whole Health Institute, the Northwest…
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Gifts from Walker Foundation, Jane Lyon Honor UAMS’ Jeanne Wei, M.D., Ph.D., Create Distinguished Chair
LITTLE ROCK — The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) received gifts totaling more than $2.1 million to create the Jeanne Wei, M.D., Ph.D., Distinguished Chair for Leadership in Geriatric Medicine, an endowed fund in the Donald W. Reynolds Institute on Aging. The Willard & Pat Walker Charitable Foundation made a $1 million donation…
Arkansas’ Leading Cancer Researchers Gather at Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute Retreat
In a strong showing as the state’s leader in cancer research, the Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute hosted its annual research retreat May 7 for scientists across the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS). Held at the Robinson Center Grand Ballroom in downtown Little Rock, the daylong event served as an opportunity for researchers…
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