Featured Announcements
April 13, 2020
Pathology Chair Jennifer Hunt, M.D., Voted Outstanding Woman Faculty
Jennifer Hunt, M.D., has been voted Outstanding Woman Faculty 2020 by her peers at UAMS as a leader, mentor and nationally recognized champion for women in medicine. Hunt is chair of the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Sciences in the College of Medicine at UAMS. In addition to mentoring individual students and faculty, she has…
April 10, 2020
UAMS Takes Drive-Through COVID-19 Evaluation to Texarkana
UAMS provided drive-through COVID-19 evaluations in Texarkana, Arkansas, on April 9, the second time UAMS has done so beyond its main campus, proving the sequel was as good as the original. Teams of physicians and nurses from the main campus in Little Rock and from UAMS Family Medical Center in Texarkana joined together at Trinity…
April 8, 2020
UAMS Receives $1M Grant for Two Clinical Trials on Opioid Withdrawal in Infants
The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), in collaboration with the Duke Clinical Research Institute, has received a $1 million federal grant for two clinical trials involving infants with neonatal opioid withdrawal syndrome (NOWS). The increase in maternal opioid use has resulted in a rise in the number of infants born with NOWS. The…
April 3, 2020
Johnathan Goree, M.D., Named Arkansas Physician of the Year by Arkansas Business
Johnathan H. Goree, M.D., an anesthesiologist who specializes in chronic pain and director of the Chronic Pain Division at UAMS was named Arkansas Physician of the Year on April 2 at the Arkansas Business Healthcare Heroes celebration. The annual awards event was held virtually on YouTube because of the COVID-19 pandemic. In presenting the awards,…
April 2, 2020
Bank of America Gives $37,000 to Support UAMS Prevention and Treatment of COVID-19
LITTLE ROCK – Bank of America has made a $37,000 gift to a recently established COVID-19 support fund at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. The COVID-19 Support Fund will cover costs associated with screening, testing and treating patients with COVID-19, specifically items such as personal protective equipment like gloves, gowns and masks, as…
March 30, 2020
Research Shows Hypothyroidism Patients Who Choose Alternative Therapies Cite Effectiveness, Improved Symptoms
Three out of four people with an underactive thyroid using an alternative “natural” treatment not approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration report that they do so because it is more effective than the standard therapy, according to research from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) and the Mayo Clinic. Freddy J.K….
March 25, 2020
$27,500 Scholarship Honors UAMS College of Medicine Doctors
Through the generosity of UAMS supporters, an endowed scholarship has been created honoring three UAMS doctors: Robert L. “Lee” Archer, M.D., Joseph G. Chacko, M.D., and Sami H. Uwaydat, M.D. This philanthropic investment will be used to fund the Drs. Lee Archer, Joseph Chacko, and Sami Uwaydat Endowed Scholarship, which will be awarded to one…
March 20, 2020
Match Day Goes Virtual: COVID-19 Changes, but Can’t Stop Spirit Behind COM Celebration
Match Day is always bittersweet, but the Class of 2020 tried to emphasize the sweet over the bitter at this year’s celebration despite the swirling context of a global pandemic and its unprecedented disruptions to daily life. There were still tears — but they were tears of joy, accomplishment and hard work paid off. And…
March 18, 2020
Aerospace Medicine Expert: Reach for the Stars by Finding, Believing your Dream
It’s possible to do things that have never been done before — like sky dive from near space — if you build on the past, learn from your mistakes, and don’t put limits on your dreams, said Jonathan B. Clark, M.D., the distinguished lecturer at Student Research Day. “Your task is to turn science fiction…
March 10, 2020
Teen Gets Body-Powered Arm at UAMS Amputee Clinic
It was a great day for fishing in May almost two years ago when Bryce Cook, of Arkadelphia, who had just turned 16, headed toward the river on a side-by-side to pursue one of his favorite pastimes. By all accounts – his own, witnesses, subsequent police investigation – he wasn’t going fast when, as the…
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