sports medicine
January 16, 2026
UAMS Celebrates Grand Opening of Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine Location in Bentonville
BENTONVILLE — The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) held a ribbon-cutting ceremony today to celebrate the grand opening of the new UAMS Health Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Clinic in Bentonville.
July 3, 2025
UAMS Welcomes 3 New Sports Medicine Physicians to Northwest Arkansas
FAYETTEVILLE — Primary care sports medicine physicians Kyle Arthur, M.D., Jake Martin, M.D., and Jacob Smith, M.D., MPH, recently joined UAMS Health Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine in Northwest Arkansas, bringing sports medicine expertise to enhance patient care in Northwest Arkansas. Arthur, who was the very first graduate of the UAMS sports medicine fellowship program in…
July 15, 2024
UAMS Team Members Take to the Backroads to Provide Medical Support for Arkansas Graveler
Six University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) team members recently spent a week traveling rural Arkansas backroads to provide medical coverage for the Ozark Foundation’s Arkansas Graveler event. The Arkansas Graveler is a multiday, 350-mile gravel cycling festival that takes place across rural Arkansas. This year, it started in Fayetteville on a Sunday and…
January 19, 2021
UAMS Health Launches Back and Neck Clinic
LITTLE ROCK — The new UAMS Health Back and Neck Clinic launched today, combining the best of established programs to offer team-based care at one convenient location, 10815 Colonel Glenn Road in Little Rock.
July 16, 2020
UAMS Health Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine Opens Second Location in Northwest Arkansas
FAYETTEVILLE – The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) opened a second Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine location in Northwest Arkansas today at 519 Latham Drive in Lowell. All physicians are fellowship trained and will see patients at both locations. Additionally, the Lowell facility will be home to a new certified hand therapist. The Fayetteville…
April 20, 2015
UAMS, UA Athletics Partner in State’s First Sports Medicine Fellowship
April 20, 2015 | The state’s first sports medicine fellowship for family physicians, offering advanced training on diagnosis and treatment of sports-related illness and injury, will start this summer on the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences’ (UAMS) northwest Arkansas campus with cooperation from the University of Arkansas Athletics Department and clinical partners.
August 27, 2014
James Andrews to Speak at UAMS
LITTLE ROCK — World-renowned sports surgeon James R. Andrews, M.D., of Gulf Breeze, Fla. and Birmingham, Ala., will be the featured speaker at the 30th Annual Arkansas Orthopaedic Forum, to be held Sept. 5 at the Jackson T. Stephens Spine & Neurosciences Institute at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS).
September 25, 2013
Sports Medicine Specialist Rivera-Vega Joins UAMS
LITTLE ROCK —Alexandra M. Rivera-Vega, M.D., has joined the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) as assistant professor of physical medicine and rehabilitation in the UAMS College of Medicine.