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July 19, 2018
UAMS Awarded $450,000 Telemedicine Grant to Serve Traumatic Brain Injury Survivors
July 19, 2018 | A new telemedicine program to provide care and services to traumatic brain injury survivors recently received funding through a $450,000 federal grant to the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS). The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Community Living awarded the three-year grant for The Traumatic Brain…
July 16, 2018
UAMS Stroke Care Ensures Patient Can Tell His Story
July 16, 2018 | Rodney Morrison of Hot Springs has a story to tell, and if it wasn’t for the part UAMS played in it, he might not have been able to tell it. UAMS recently became the first and only health care provider in Arkansas to be certified as a Comprehensive Stroke Center by…
July 13, 2018
UAMS Medical Center Certified as First and Only Comprehensive Stroke Center in Arkansas
July 13, 2018 | UAMS Medical Center has become the first and only health care provider in Arkansas to be certified as a Comprehensive Stroke Center by The Joint Commission.
July 12, 2018
UAMS Hosts Free ‘Teaching with Technology’ Symposium July 26-27
July 12, 2018 | Educators from across Arkansas are invited to attend Teaching with Technology, a free symposium to be held July 26-27 at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) and designed to provide new tools and ideas for teaching in the classroom or online. This year for the first time, the symposium…
July 6, 2018
First-Year Residents from UAMS Regional Campuses Gather
July 6, 2018 | While health care in recent years has pursued the triple aim of patient satisfaction and positive health outcomes while reducing the costs, Mark Jansen, M.D., told first-year resident physicians June 21 there should be a fourth target — provider satisfaction. “If we don’t have healthy, happy providers, you are not going…
July 5, 2018
UAMS Gets Nurse Anesthesia Specialty Program Approval
July 5, 2018 | The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) has received approval from the Arkansas Department of Higher Education for a Nurse Anesthesia specialty in the College of Nursing’s Doctor of Nursing Practice (D.N.P.) program. The UAMS Council of Deans and the University of Arkansas Board of Trustees previously approved the program. The…
July 3, 2018
UAMS Telemedicine Program in Magazine School District Reduces Obesity
July 3, 2018 | More than half of obese fifth through eighth graders in the Magazine School District reduced their obesity in the last year after participating in a program by the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Center for Distance Health. The program is part of the School Telemedicine in Arkansas (STAR) program…
June 28, 2018
Study Shows UAMS Device Can Help Assess Fetal Health after Opioid Exposure
June 28, 2018 | A biomagnetic technique developed at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) can be used to assess the brain and heart health of third-trimester fetuses exposed to opioids, UAMS researchers showed in a recent pilot study. The study was published online this month in the medical journal Addiction, authored by…
June 25, 2018
UAMS Eye Patient: To See Again is Phenomenal
June 25, 2018 | Each visit to UAMS to see cornea surgeon David Warner, M.D., is a joyous occasion for Cindy Jones. That’s because with each visit in the year-long recovery after her cornea transplant, her vision improves. “Each time it was better and better,” said Jones. Jones, 44, has had a lifetime of vision…
Camp Shows Undergraduates Diversity of Pharmacy Career Paths
June 25, 2018 | For a dozen years, Pharmacy Camp at the UAMS College of Pharmacy has been creating uncommon experiences for 17- and 18-year-olds and efficiently compressing them all into a few days. “I could’ve spent the whole summer shadowing pharmacists here and there, but this put everything into one week and I was…
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