July 2, 2018

Pharmacy Students Create Drug-Counseling Videos for YouTube

News Staff

It all started with a visit to a local pharmacy.

Seth Heldenbrand, Pharm.D., the College of Pharmacy’s associate dean of experiential education and an associate professor, was picking up a new prescription and noticed that with a simple click of a box he had opted out of drug counseling by the pharmacist.


Pharmacy Students Create Drug-Counseling Videos for YouTube

Yavonda Chase

College of Pharmacy students Zach Smith (center) and Matt Garner (right) played major roles in the creation of dozens of YouTube videos containing pharmacist-level drug counseling for patients. Seth Heldenbrand, Pharm.D., (left) the college’s associate dean of experiential education, conceived and oversaw the project.

July 2, 2018 | It all started with a visit to a local pharmacy.

Seth Heldenbrand, Pharm.D., the College of Pharmacy’s associate dean of experiential education and an associate professor, was picking up a new prescription and noticed that with a simple click of a box he had opted out of drug counseling by the pharmacist.


Natalie Rockefeller Named to UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute Foundation Board

Susan Van Dusen

Natalie Rockefeller is the newest member of the UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute Foundation board of directors.

LITTLE ROCK – Natalie Rockefeller of Little Rock has been named a member of the board of directors for the Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute Foundation at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS).


June 12, 2018

Telestroke Conference 2018 Awards

Ben Boulden

The AR SAVES team used sites scorecards and reviewed site performance to evaluate and determine the winners of this year’s awards. Deliverables, outreach and education activities, mocks, accuracy and timeliness of data submission, meeting and conference attendance were all considered. The program also considered internal process changes, at their respective hospitals, to improve the care…


June 7, 2018

White Coat a Symbol of Trust, Provost Tells Physician Assistants

Yavonda Chase

The Physician Assistant Class of 2020 was awarded their white coats during a May 25 ceremony.

June 7, 2018 | Make sure your white coat represents a symbol of trust, incoming physician assistant students were encouraged recently as they donned their coats for the first time and pledged to care for their patients.


June 6, 2018

Health Sciences Boot Camp Helps Students Get Started on Startups

Ben Boulden

Seventeen undergraduate and graduate students along with faculty and mentors gather for a group photo at the conclusion of the third annual Health Sciences Entrepreneurship Boot Camp.

June 6, 2018 | Just as academic years at Arkansas colleges and universities were winding down in May, 17 undergraduate and graduate students were starting up at the third annual Health Sciences Entrepreneurship Boot Camp on the University of Central Arkansas campus in Conway. The boot camp from May 20-25 was a joint initiative of…


June 5, 2018

Batesville Mom Well After Blood Clot in Lung While Pregnant

Liz Caldwell

June 5, 2018 | Teighler Kittler’s husband, Corey, was getting dressed for work Oct. 2, 2017, when he heard a long groan. He rushed to the bedroom and saw his wife, 37 weeks pregnant, on the bed clenching her fist and with a fixed stare. It was over in a moment. He asked what happened…


June 4, 2018

Public Invited to June 13 Dedication of Oaklawn Center On Aging Caregiver Training Center

Ben Boulden

June 4, 2018 | The Oaklawn Center on Aging, part of the Donald W. Reynolds Institute on Aging at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) will dedicate and rename its care house June 13 as the Darrell Meyer Care House. The public is invited to the dedication, which will be from 2 –…


May 31, 2018

Recovery from Acute Leukemia Gives Teacher Something to Celebrate

Susan Van Dusen

Allogeneic stem cell transplant recipient Dottie Lobbs (center) joined her physician, Muthu Veeraputhiran, M.D., (left) and husband Mike Lobbs at the first-ever UAMS Cancer Institute's Celebration of Life.

May 31, 2018 | It was the summer of 2015 and Dottie Lobbs should have been enjoying her summer break. Instead, Lobbs, a special education teacher at Glen Rose High School in Malvern, was experiencing such severe fatigue that she knew something was wrong.


May 25, 2018

UAMS Clinical Trials Day Punctuated by Success Stories

David Robinson

May 25, 2018 | In May 2006, Harold “Hap” Peterson was advised to get his affairs in order by UAMS cancer specialist Laura Hutchins, M.D. He had late-stage melanoma, a type of skin cancer, with tumors spreading throughout his body. He was shocked to hear he had only three to six months to live. “I…


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