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February 20, 2014

Day at the Races March 20 to Benefit UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute

Nate Hinkel

LITTLE ROCK – The public is invited to enjoy a day of thoroughbred racing in support of the Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS).


December 22, 2013

Daughter’s Legacy Is Paying It Forward

Kelly Gardner

When Pauline Wagnon’s mother, Virginia Thompson, was diagnosed with cancer in the mid-1940s and treated for free and cured at UAMS, Wagnon set her mind to paying it forward. Wagnon passed away September at age 89, but left behind a $185,268 life insurance gift to UAMS that not even her family knew about. Her family…


December 11, 2013

Cancer Institute Gifted $1 Million for Breast Center, Procedures Facility

Nate Hinkel

Dec. 11, 2013 | A $1 million gift from Stuart Cobb of Little Rock puts the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute one step closer to completing its new breast center and cancer procedures facility.


UAMS Breast Center Site and Cancer Procedures Facility Gifted $1 Million

Nate Hinkel

LITTLE ROCK – A $1 million gift from Stuart Cobb of Little Rock puts the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute one step closer to completing its new breast center and cancer procedures facility.


October 9, 2013

Mohammed Orloff, Ph.D., Joins UAMS Department of Epidemiology

Nate Hinkel

LITTLE ROCK – Mohammed Orloff, Ph.D., has been named associate professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS).


August 16, 2013

Public Health Researchers Chosen for International Cancer Task Force

Liz Caldwell

Aug. 16, 2013 | Igor Koturbash, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health in the UAMS Fay W. Boozman College of Public Health, has been invited to be part of a newly formed international initiative that will investigate the role of commonly encountered chemicals in cancer causation as well as explore new cancer-fighting therapies.


August 9, 2013

UAMS Palliative Care Program First in State for Advanced Certification

Liz Caldwell

The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Palliative Care Program has received advanced certification, becoming the first in Arkansas and one of only 36 nationally to become accredited under a new national evaluation process.


June 13, 2013

UAMS Breast Cancer Program Awarded $407,000 From Televised Charitable Shoe Sale

Holland Doran

The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) took another step forward in the fight against breast cancer with more than $407,000 generated by the 19th Annual QVC Presents “FFANY Shoes on Sale,” held in October 2012.


May 9, 2013

UAMS Family Home Marks 10-year Milestone

Nate Hinkel

May 9, 2013 | For 10 years, the UAMS Family Home has been a home-away-from-home for patients at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. On May 8, friends gathered to celebrate the home’s first decade and pledge support for the start of its second.


April 16, 2013

Cancer Institute Auxiliary Awards 20 Grants

Nate Hinkel

April 16, 2013 | Twenty patient support programs have been awarded grants from the Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute Auxiliary at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS).



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