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UAMS Designated a 2024-2025 Best Hospital; Rated High-Performing in Nine Areas

July 16, 2024 | U.S. News & World Report has named the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) as a 2024-2025 Best Hospital. In the magazine’s annual Best Hospitals edition, released today, UAMS was named Best Hospital in the Little Rock metropolitan area, in a tie with Baptist Health Medical Center. UAMS also received “high performing” designations for...

Linda Satter
Audiology patient displays cochlear implant device
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Greenwood Officer Rediscovers Sound with Cochlear Implant

July 12, 2024 | Greenwood police officer John Michael O’Mara has been dealing with hearing loss since childhood. For years, he tried all manner of traditional hearing aids, but he just didn’t like the way they performed. “I was stubborn and refused to wear hearing aids,” O’Mara said. “I didn’t like the way that it sounded like a 1960s...

David Wise
UAMS Chancellor Cam Patterson, M.D., MBA, announced the UAMS Translational Research Institute's Clinical and Translational Science Award during a news conference Wednesday.
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National Institutes of Health Awards $31.7 Million to UAMS Translational Research Institute

July 10, 2024 | The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Translational Research Institute announced today that it will receive $31.7 million to continue its role in a national effort to accelerate discoveries for the toughest health challenges facing Arkansans and people across the United States. The funding by the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) at the National...

David Robinson
Tom Heau, Deb Heau
Myeloma Center

Hot Springs Village Couple Grateful to Myeloma Center

July 5, 2024 | Tom and Deb Heau have come a long way together. “I couldn’t have made it without Deb, she’s the guardian angel,” said Tom Heau, who was diagnosed with multiple myeloma in 2018. Deb Heau describes the day they found out about her husband’s illness. “It was March 1, 2018. Tom came home and said, ‘I...

Nathan Tidwell

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Little Rock Subaru Delivers Blankets for UAMS Blood Cancer Patients

July 18, 2024 | Blood cancer patients at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute received a little more assistance going through their journey, thanks to Subaru of Little Rock and the Arkansas Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. Subaru of Little Rock delivered 80 blankets and 30 patient care kits to the UAMS Patient...

Nathan Tidwell

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UAMS orthopaedics and sports medicine team members pose in front of the Arkansas Graveler map.
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UAMS Team Members Take to the Backroads to Provide Medical Support for Arkansas Graveler

July 15, 2024 | Six University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) team members recently spent a week traveling rural Arkansas backroads to provide medical coverage for the Ozark Foundation’s Arkansas Graveler event. The Arkansas Graveler is a multiday, 350-mile gravel cycling festival that takes place across rural Arkansas. This year, it started in Fayetteville on a Sunday and...

David Wise
Clement Aladesofi, MVP for July 2024
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Clement Aladesofi

July 12, 2024 | Meet Clement Aladesofi, the MVP for July. Clement serves UAMS as a patient care technician on H9 of the Medical Center. In the course of his work, he puts into practice the UAMS values of integrity, respect, diversity and health equity, teamwork, creativity, excellence and safety.

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UAMS Gets $1.3 Million Grant for High School-Focused Tech and Data Science Exposure Program in NWA

July 8, 2024 | FAYETTEVILLE — The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) has been awarded a $1.3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for its Arkansas Technology and Data Science in Health and Medicine (AR Tech-DaSH) program. The five-year grant from the NIH’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) will support an...

David Wise
McCrady and Newsome
College of Pharmacy

Two College of Pharmacy Alumni Receive National Leadership Awards

July 15, 2024 | The National Association of Boards of Pharmacy (NABP) recently recognized two UAMS College of Pharmacy alumni, Brenda McCrady, P.D., COP ’86, and Lenora Newsome, P.D., COP ’80, with awards for leadership. “Brenda’s dedication and service to the people of Arkansas and contributions to NABP are the reason awards like this exist to honor our exemplary...

Benjamin Waldrum
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College of Pharmacy

Two Research Conferences Converge at UAMS for Young Scientists

July 9, 2024 | More than 120 young researchers and faculty members recently converged on the UAMS Little Rock campus for a drug discovery colloquium designed to sharpen their skills and prepare them for long and productive careers in research. Held at the I. Dodd Wilson Education Building, the combination event merged two annual conferences, the Drug Discovery &...

Benjamin Waldrum

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