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February 15, 2022

UAMS Receives $10 Million to Expand Community-Based Outreach Efforts to Increase COVID-19 Vaccinations

David Wise

Andrew Roshell IV, 16, gets his first shot of the Pfizer vaccine during the first COVID-19 Community Vaccination Clinic on April 10.

LITTLE ROCK — The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) has been awarded a $10 million grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to fund COVID-19 outreach efforts across Arkansas. UAMS will use the grant to mobilize and deploy community health workers, patient navigators and social support specialists to the…

July 13, 2015

Pharmacy Students Earn National Award for Third Time

Kelly Gardner

July 13, 2015 | UAMS College of Pharmacy students have achieved a three-peat, winning the national Organ Donation Challenge award and, in this year’s competition, surpassing 11 rival colleges of pharmacy.

July 30, 2014

UAMS’ Barone Named to FDA Tobacco Products Advisory Panel

Spencer Watson

LITTLE ROCK – Claudia Barone, Ed.D., A.P.R.N., a professor in the College of Nursing at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), has become the first nurse appointed to the Tobacco Products Scientific Advisory Committee of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Food and Drug Administration (FDA).