May 2, 2024

UAMS Celebrates Members of the Society of the Double Helix

Andrew Vogler

2024 Society of the Double Helix

The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences’ (UAMS) honored members of the Society of the Double Helix during an April 18 reception held in the Cultural Living Room at the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts in Little Rock. The Society of the Double Helix was established by what is now known as the UAMS Board…


May 1, 2024

The Neck

Tim Taylor

neck

These programs were first broadcast the week of May 6, 2024


April 29, 2024

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

Linda Satter

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.

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…


April 26, 2024

Brotherly Love — UAMS’ Chief Nephrologist Receives Kidney from Younger Sibling

Linda Satter

Steve Arhur, standing, in hospital gown, visits with John Arthur, M.D., in a patient bed, after the surgery in which Steve donate a kidney to John.

John Arthur, chief kidney doctor at the University of Arkansas Medical Sciences (UAMS), understands the benefits of a living kidney donation more than most people would expect. As the director of the Division of Nephrology in the UAMS Department of Internal Medicine since 2015, he has long been aware that about 100,000 patients across the…


2024 Career Fair Connects Pharmacy Students with 16 Community Employers

Benjamin Waldrum

COP Career Day 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…


April 25, 2024

UAMS Hosts Statewide Conference to Showcase Advances in Nursing Research

Chris Carmody

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.

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…


April 23, 2024

KIDNEYcon 2024 Focuses on the Present and Future of Nephrology

Nathan Tidwell

Tiffany Huitt

More than 100 faculty, internal medicine residents, nephrologists and nephrology fellows came together April 6-8 for the ninth annual KIDNEYcon. Sponsored by the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) College of Medicine Department of Internal Medicine’s Division of Nephrology, the event consisted of lectures, a reception, scientific and clinical sessions, and workshops. The event…


April 19, 2024

New Yorker Writer, Best-Selling Author to Speak April 26 at UAMS about Nation’s Opioid Crisis

Linda Satter

portrait of Patrick Radden Keefe

LITTLE ROCK — Patrick Radden Keefe, an award-winning staff writer at The New Yorker magazine and author of the New York Times bestseller “Empire of Pain,” will present a free, public lecture April 26 at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS). Entitled “The Secret History of the Sackler Family and OxyContin,” the lecture…


April 18, 2024

Aging Skin

Tim Taylor

hands

These programs were first broadcast the week of April 22, 2024.


April 11, 2024

Drinking Water

Tim Taylor

WATER

These programs were first broadcast the week of April 15, 2024.


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