January 28, 2014

UAMS Programs Receive More Than $450,000 in Grants from Blue & You Foundation, Arkansas Blue Cross and Blue Shield

Jon Parham

LITTLE ROCK – The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences’ (UAMS) Center for Dental Education, the planned internal medicine residency program in northwest Arkansas and the physician assistant program were among UAMS programs that received grants totaling more than $450,000 from the Blue & You Foundation and its parent company, Arkansas Blue Cross and Blue Shield.


January 27, 2014

Nation’s First Telemedicine Program for Hand Trauma Established

Ben Boulden

Jan. 27, 2014 | Patients with hand injuries now have access to the nation’s first hand trauma telemedicine program established this month by the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), the Arkansas Trauma Communications Center and the Arkansas Department of Health.


Nation’s First Telemedicine Program for Hand Trauma Established by UAMS, Trauma Center, Health Department

Ben Boulden

LITTLE ROCK – Patients with hand injuries now have access to the nation’s first hand trauma telemedicine program established this month by the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), the Arkansas Trauma Communications Center and the Arkansas Department of Health.


January 17, 2014

Event Educates on LGBT Health Care Needs

Holland Doran

The lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community is under more stress than any other population, Billy Thomas, M.D., vice chancellor for diversity and inclusion, told physicians, students and guests at a recent conference hosted by UAMS.


December 27, 2013

UAMS Takes Action in 2013

Ben Boulden

Dec. 27, 2013 | New degree programs and innovations in patient care marked 2013 as a year of dynamic action for UAMS.


December 19, 2013

UAMS Volunteers Warm Hearts With New Shoes

Liz Caldwell

There was standing room only at River City Ministry in North Little Rock on Dec. 12 as volunteers filled wash basins with warm soapy water while preparing to give foot exams and new shoes and socks for the homeless, working poor and disabled.


December 17, 2013

A Little Fighter

Kelly Gardner

The UAMS Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) is a familiar place for Susan Bryant, R.N. As a NICU nurse, she sees and cares for babies who entered the world too early and are fighting to survive. However, this familiar scene became an unfamiliar one when it was her own son in one of the isolettes. Bryant…


December 10, 2013

UAMS Hosts Researchers From Several States

Ben Boulden

Dec. 10, 2013 | Scientific researchers shared their findings with each other at the UAMS-hosted 2013 Southeast Regional IDeA meeting in mid-November at the Little Rock Marriott while learning about a new funding opportunity to commercialize their discoveries.


November 27, 2013

Family and Preventive Medicine Department Celebrates 40 Years

Holland Doran

Having trained more than 250 practicing family physicians and countless medical students in the principles of family medicine and continuity of care, the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine in the UAMS College of Medicine recently celebrated its 40th anniversary.


November 20, 2013

Cynthia Brown, R.N., to Lead UAMS Infusion Clinics, Outpatient Blood Draw

Ben Boulden

LITTLE ROCK – Cynthia Brown, R.N., has been named director of the Infusion/Ancillary Services Division at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS). She supervises the UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute’s two infusion clinics and blood draw areas in the Cancer Institute and Outpatient Center.


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