The UAMS Medical Center earned earned an “A” Hospital Safety Grade from The Leapfrog Group.
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UAMS Medical Center Only Hospital in Greater Little Rock Area to Receive ‘A’ Safety Grade from The Leapfrog Group

May 1, 2024 | LITTLE ROCK — The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Medical Center earned an “A” Hospital Safety Grade from The Leapfrog Group, a national nonprofit that awards letter grades to general hospitals around the country based on more than 30 measures of errors, accidents, injuries and infections as well as the systems that hospitals have in place to prevent them.

Yavonda Chase
Stephanie Gardner, UAMS provost and chief strategy officer, cuts the ribbon at a ceremony to celebrate the UAMS Child Development Center, which is scheduled to open in early May.
News Release

UAMS Holds Ribbon-Cutting Ceremony for Child Development Center in Little Rock

April 24, 2024 | The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) held a ribbon-cutting ceremony today for the UAMS Child Development Center in Little Rock, a 20,000-square-foot facility that is scheduled to open in early May. The center will provide services for about 200 children, from infancy through prekindergarten, of UAMS employees and students. Of those slots, 10%...

Chris Carmody
a composite of portraits of Barnes, Stambough, Stronach, Inamdar, Al'Aref and Giorgakis.
College of Medicine

Nine UAMS Physicians Named Healthcare Research All-Stars

April 16, 2024 |  LITTLE ROCK — Nine current and former physicians at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) have been named Healthcare Research All-Stars for 2024 by Avant-garde Health. Additionally, it placed the UAMS Hip and Knee surgery team among the top 1% of hip and knee surgeons nationwide, the orthopaedic surgery team among the top...

Linda Satter

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Leonie DeClerk (shown in this image), clinical associate professor in the UAMS College of Nursing, is a 2024 inductee in the Fellows of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners program.

UAMS’ Leonie DeClerk, Ph.D., DNP, APRN, Selected as Fellow of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners

May 1, 2024 | Leonie DeClerk, Ph.D., DNP, APRN, clinical associate professor in the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) College of Nursing, has been named as a 2024 inductee in the Fellows of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners program. The prestigious program recognizes nurse practitioners for their outstanding achievements and exemplary service in the areas of...

Chris Carmody
Rohit Dhall, M.D., chair of the UAMS Department of Neurology, discusses Parkinson's disease. Neurosurgeon Erika Petersen, M.D., who founded the annual Parkinson's Symposium, is in the background.

Experts Share New Treatments, Solutions for Parkinson’s Patients, Caregivers

April 29, 2024 | New treatments for Parkinson’s disease, including drugs that researchers at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) have been working on for years, will finally become available in pharmacies this year, Rohit Dhall, M.D., predicted at the recent Ninth Annual Parkinson’s Symposium at UAMS. Dhall, who is also the medical director of the UAMS...

Linda Satter

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Nithya Neelakantan, Ph.D., is new faculty in the COPH.
Fay W. Boozman College of Public Health

Nithya Neelakantan, Ph.D., Joins UAMS Fay W. Boozman College of Public Health

May 1, 2024 | Nithya Neelakantan, Ph.D., has joined the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Fay W. Boozman College of Public Health as an associate professor in the Department of Epidemiology. Neelakantan earned her master’s degree in biostatistics from Christian Medical College (CMC) in India and a doctorate in epidemiology from Saw Swee Hock School of Public...

Kev' Moye
Marshallese woman holding baby
News Release

Marshallese Women Who Move to U.S. Less Likely to Breastfeed, UAMS Researchers Find

April 29, 2024 | FAYETTEVILLE — Marshallese women who move to the United States may be less likely to exclusively breastfeed their children as they struggle to find appropriate education and support systems, according to researchers from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Institute for Community Health Innovation. UAMS researchers found Marshallese women living in the U.S....

David Wise
COP Career Day 2024
College of Pharmacy

2024 Career Fair Connects Pharmacy Students with 16 Community Employers

April 26, 2024 | UAMS College of Pharmacy students from the Class of 2024 participated in the college’s annual Career Fair on March 29, learning more about opportunities available to them after graduation. The event, held at the Myers Student Pavilion at Pulaski Academy in Little Rock, allows current pharmacy students the chance to network with other members of...

Benjamin Waldrum
Soup kitchen staff serve food to food insecure people.
News Release

UAMS ‘Community of Practice’ Collaboration Receives $750,000 Grant from Walmart Foundation to Battle Hunger in NWA

April 25, 2024 | FAYETTEVILLE — Thanks to a $750,000 award from the Walmart Foundation, the Northwest Arkansas Food Insecurity Community of Practice will continue to develop strategies to reduce hunger in Northwest Arkansas over the next 18 months. The Community of Practice is a collaboration between the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) and more than 20...

David Wise
Members of the UAMS Institute for Community Health Innovation and the Springdale Chamber of Commerce cut a ribbon to celebrate the creation of UAMS' 8th institute.
News Release

UAMS Celebrates New Institute with Ribbon-Cutting in Springdale

April 30, 2024 | FAYETTEVILLE — The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) cut the ribbon today on the UAMS Institute for Community Health Innovation, formally celebrating the establishment of UAMS’ eighth institution. Joining members of the institute at the celebration were the Springdale Chamber of Commerce and other local leaders. The UAMS Institute for Community Health Innovation...

David Wise
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Graduate School

Graduate School Spring Reception Recognizes Top Performers

April 26, 2024 | The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Graduate School hailed faculty, staff and student successes at its Spring Awards Reception on April 18. “This is a celebration of all the great work that happens in our Graduate School,” said Dean Sean Taverna, Ph.D., from Biomedical Research Center I’s Helen Guinn Adams Atrium. Lance Benson,...

Nathan Tidwell
Nicholas Odom, associate professor in the School of Nursing at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, delivers a guest lecture during the afternoon session of the Arkansas Nursing Research Day conference.
College of Nursing

UAMS Hosts Statewide Conference to Showcase Advances in Nursing Research

April 25, 2024 | Nurses and nursing students from across the state gathered April 5 on the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) campus for a conference that highlighted recent advances in research. Organized by the UAMS College of Nursing and the UAMS Office of Continuing Education, the 2024 Arkansas Nursing Research Day conference focused on the theme...

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