May 4, 2026 | LITTLE ROCK — The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) has named Cheryl Lane as vice chancellor for Information Technology.
May 1, 2026 | When Susie Whittington stepped into the role of caregiver for an ailing adult son, she initially didn’t realize how challenging and rewarding this new chapter of her life would turn out to be. “When I first started, I didn’t know what to expect,” said Whittington, a patient and volunteer at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Donald W. Reynold Institute on Aging.
April 30, 2026 | LITTLE ROCK — The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) received a $200,000 grant from the Ottenheimer Brothers Foundation to support the UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute’s Radiation Oncology Center. The grant will go to the purchase and installation of the Brainlab ExacTrac Dynamic System. The medical equipment and software combine surface and...
April 28, 2026 | The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) recently became the first provider in Arkansas to receive a Center of Excellence designation for implantation of the AMS 800, a device that treats severe male stress incontinence caused by prostate cancer treatments. Brian Langford, M.D., a urologist at the UAMS Health Urology Center at Premier Medical...
April 27, 2026 | The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) has received a gift of $140,000 from Gary Clark, P.D., to increase the endowment of his family scholarship for the UAMS College of Pharmacy to a university scholarship.
April 24, 2026 | FAYETTEVILLE — The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) hosted a topping out ceremony today for the UAMS Health Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine Hospital, which will be the new home of world-class orthopaedic and sports medicine care providers serving Northwest Arkansas. Attendees were invited to sign a beam, which was then hoisted by crane...
April 24, 2026 | By Shannon Perna “Thank you.” These heartfelt words are often all that’s needed to express sincere gratitude, but after 20 years of life-saving treatment at the UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute’s Myeloma Center, Don Wilson, DVM, and his wife, Melissa Wilson, wanted to do more. So more than a decade ago, they began to...
May 4, 2026 | LITTLE ROCK — Using smart food locker technology is an innovative and promising approach to addressing food insecurity in Arkansas, according to researchers from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Institute for Community Health Innovation. Food insecurity, defined as the limited or uncertain access to enough nutritious food, continues to affect communities across Arkansas...
April 30, 2026 | The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Graduate School recognized outstanding students and faculty during its Spring Awards on April 15.
April 29, 2026 | While she’s open to Parkinson’s disease patients using dietary supplements alongside conventional medicine to ease their symptoms, neurologist Hillary Williams, M.D., a movement disorders specialist at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), encourages patients and their caregivers to have “a little bit of healthy suspicion” about claims made by the makers of some...
May 4, 2026 | Meet Laura Hanson, the university’s MVP for May, who is a radiation safety officer in Institutional Support Services. In the course of her work, she puts into practice the UAMS culture of being polite, friendly, respectful, thoughtful, optimistic and compassionate. Read what her nominator said: Laura demonstrates a strong commitment to creating a welcoming and...
April 29, 2026 | College students exploring health care careers recently gathered at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Undergraduate Pre-Health Conference, gleaning next-step advice from five UAMS college and graduate school representatives and a panel of current UAMS students. The conference was hosted by UAMS Regional Campuses on April 17 to help build a pipeline of...
April 28, 2026 | The Translational Research Institute’s fifth annual Research Day highlighted the pivotal role of translational science in Arkansas, showcasing research presentations, panel discussions, and a poster session focused on scientific impact. A keynote presentation was delivered by Barry Coller, M.D., the David Rockefeller Professor of Medicine and head of the Allen and Frances Adler Laboratory of...
April 24, 2026 | Majid Asgari, Ph.D. Majid Asgari, Ph.D., is a postdoctoral fellow in the UAMS College of Medicine Department of Internal Medicine. He earned his doctorate in medical biotechnology from the Pasteur Institute of Iran in 2021 and joined the UAMS Myeloma Center in 2024 in the lab of research director Fenghuang “Frank” Zhan, M.D., Ph.D. His...
May 1, 2026 | Jennifer Wessel, J.D., MPH, works to improve health outcomes, and her love for health and wellness paved the way for her to become a public health professional. “We tackle a multitude of issues to have a broader lens on ways to improve Arkansas’ health status. Therefore, I’m learning something new each day.” Wessel’s journey to...
April 28, 2026 | These programs were first broadcast the week of May 4, 2026.
April 27, 2026 | On a recent Saturday morning at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Simulation Center, six high school students gathered around a manikin that needed immediate medical attention.
April 24, 2026 | Multi-omics reveal immune microenvironment alterations in multiple myeloma and its precursor stages Blood Cancer Journal November 2024 Primary authors: Yan Cheng, Ph.D.; Fumou Sun, Ph.D. Tumor immune microenvironmental alterations occur early in multiple myeloma development. In this study, we aim to systematically characterize the tumor immune microenvironment (TME) and the tumor-immune interactions from precursor stages,...