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August 9, 2019

UAMS Partners With Arkansas Blue Cross and Blue Shield to Expand Comprehensive Digital Health Network

Benjamin Waldrum

UAMS Chancellor Cam Patterson, M.D., MBA, Mahlon O. Maris, M.D., Curtis Barnett, Angela Wimmer, M.Ed., and Curtis Lowery, M.D., pose in front of a digital health interpretive wall commemorating the digital health partnership and honoring Maris' legacy.

A $1 million grant to the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) from Arkansas Blue Cross and Blue Shield will enable the UAMS Institute for Digital Health & Innovation to advance digital health statewide to provide patients better and more streamlined access to health care. The grant was announced today as leaders from UAMS…


August 6, 2019

UAMS Head Start Program Receives $41 Million Grant

Spencer Watson

Head Start students enjoying a surprise donation of books, games and toys in 2018.

The Head Start/Early Head Start Program in Pulaski County, which has been administered by the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Department of Pediatrics since 1998, has received a grant of $41 million from U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The grant will be used to operate the program and is structured to…


July 31, 2019

Two Grants Allow UAMS to Start Free Exercise Program for People with Parkinson’s

News Staff

Two people, one in wheelchair, making big movements with arms

The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) has received two grants totaling almost $29,000 to launch a free exercise program for people with Parkinson’s disease and Parkinsonism. The Parkinson’s Foundation provided $13,924.59 to train, staff and support the program, and the Philip R. Jonsson Foundation of Little Rock provided $15,000 for the equipment. “Treating…


July 30, 2019

UAMS Medical Center Ranked No. 1 in State by U.S. News & World Report

News Staff

Badge honoring UAMS as No. 1 Hospital in Arkansas

The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) has been recognized by U.S. News & World Report as having the best hospital in the state, and its ear, nose and throat (ENT) department was ranked among the top 50 nationwide. “The world now knows what we know — wonderful things are happening here at UAMS…


July 18, 2019

UAMS Northeast Regional Campus Celebrates 40th Anniversary

Ben Boulden

UAMS Chancellor Cam Patterson speaks to an audience gathered at the UAMS Northeast Regional Campus to celebrate campus' 40th anniversary.

July 18, 2019 | Forty years of working to educate family residents to fill gaps in care created by the shortage of physicians in rural Arkansas filled the atrium of the UAMS Northeast Regional Campus building on July 16 with applauding, appreciative well-wishers. The more than 100 former residents, local officials and staff were there…


Stocked & Reddie Opens Its Doors to Serve UAMS

Yavonda Chase

Stocked & Reddie, the new UAMS food pantry, opened its doors July 15. Participants are able to select the fresh produce, frozen Cafeteria meals and nonperishable items that best suit their family. Photo credit, Bryan Clifton

Fresh fruit and vegetables, frozen Cafeteria meals, peanut butter and cereal — Stocked & Reddie, the UAMS food pantry, opened its doors July 15 offering all of these and more to students and employees who struggle with food insecurity.


July 16, 2019

UAMS Arkansas Geriatric Education Collaborative Awarded $3.7 Million by Health Resources and Services Administration

Ben Boulden

“Combating the Opioid Crisis and Chronic Pain” conference in April was one of many events sponsored by the UAMS Arkansas Geriatric Education Collaborative to provide training for geriatric health care professionals, primary care practitioners, first responders, caregivers, older adults and those who provide services to older adults.

The Arkansas Geriatric Education Collaborative (AGEC) at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) has received a five-year grant of $3.74 million to provide geriatric training. The funding will provide training for geriatric health care professionals, primary care practitioners, first responders, caregivers, older adults and those who provide services to older adults. Robin McAtee, Ph.D.,…


July 9, 2019

CDC Director Discusses Important Public Health Issues for Arkansas

Ashley McNatt

CDC Director Redfield

Stigma has no role in public health, said Robert Redfield, M.D., director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention during a visit June 27 to UAMS.


July 3, 2019

NIH Awards Five-Year, $24.2 Million Grant to UAMS Translational Research Institute

David Robinson

UAMS Chancellor Cam Patterson, left, listens to Laura James, M.D., director of the UAMS Translational Research Institute after both of them announced $24.2 million in new funding for the institute.

The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Translational Research Institute announced today it will receive five years of federal funding totaling $24.2 million to accelerate research that addresses Arkansas’ biggest health challenges. The Translational Research Institute helps researchers turn their ideas and findings into new medical treatments and other health interventions. Its focus is…


June 28, 2019

SONOcamp Aims to Inspire STEM Possibilities for High School Students

News Staff

students with infrared tec

“So if I told you this is where the diaphragm sits, where do you think the right superior, middle, and inferior lobes are on him?” Kevin D. Phelan, Ph.D., co-director of the Division of Clinical Anatomy in the UAMS College of Medicine, drew an arc with his finger just along the bottom of the rib…



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