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May 11, 2017

Walton College, UAMS Collaborate on Healthcare Management M.B.A.

Ashley McNatt

May 11, 2017 | The Sam M. Walton College of Business is collaborating with the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Fay W. Boozman College of Public Health to offer a Healthcare Management track for its Executive Master in Business Administration program. Beginning this summer, students in the Executive M.B.A. program will be able to…


April 21, 2017

James M. Raczynski, Ph.D., Named to Inaugural M. Joycelyn Elders, M.D., Chair in Health Promotion and Disease Prevention

Benjamin Waldrum

James M. Raczynski, Ph.D. (seated), dean of the UAMS College of Public Health, was named the inaugural holder of the M. Joycelyn Elders, M.D., Chair in Health Promotion and Disease Prevention. From left are former U.S. Surgeons General David Satcher, M.D., Ph.D., and M. Joycelyn Elders, M.D.; Stephanie Gardner, Pharm.D., Ed.D., UAMS senior vice chancellor for Academic Affairs and provost; and UAMS Chancellor Dan Rahn, M.D.

April 21, 2017 | James M. Raczynski, Ph.D., dean of the Fay W. Boozman College of Public Health at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), was invested April 20 as the inaugural recipient of the M. Joycelyn Elders, M.D., Chair in Health Promotion and Disease Prevention. Raczynski, professor and founding dean of the…


April 14, 2017

UAMS Celebrates National Public Health Week

Ashley McNatt

COPH Career Fair

April 14, 2017 | The UAMS Fay W. Boozman College of Public Health celebrated National Public Health Week April 3-9 by hosting events to promote healthy behaviors. The national theme this year, “Healthiest Nation 2030,” calls on individuals to ensure conditions — such as access to safe, healthy food — in which everyone has the…


October 10, 2016

International Fest Celebrates Cultures of UAMS

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UAMS International Fest

Oct. 10, 2016 | Numerous customs, traditions and represented by UAMS faculty, staff and students were celebrated Sept. 30 at International Fest. More than 100 employees and students gathered in the Education II building to make their way around the globe, learning and enjoying the various cultures and nationalities displayed. Participants could sample lo mein…


September 26, 2016

Elders Inducted Into Arkansas Women’s Hall of Fame

Benjamin Waldrum

Former U.S. Surgeon General M. Joycelyn Elders, M.D., and her husband, Oliver "Coach" Elders, as seen in April 2015 for the unveiling of a commemorative portrait of Elders at UAMS.

Sept. 26, 2016 | Former U.S. Surgeon General M. Joycelyn Elders, M.D., was recently inducted into the Arkansas Women’s Hall of Fame in a ceremony at the Statehouse Convention Center. Elders, an emeritus professor of pediatrics and distinguished professor of public health for the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), was appointed U.S. surgeon…


February 8, 2016

UAMS Appoints Zaller to Direct Office of Global Health

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Feb. 8, 2016 | Nickolas D. Zaller, Ph.D., an internationally known addiction researcher at UAMS and a Fulbright Scholar fluent in Chinese, has been appointed director of the UAMS Office of Global Health. Created in 2012, the office coordinates global health activities at UAMS, supporting faculty, staff and students across the university. The office also…


April 22, 2015

College of Medicine Honors Faculty, Staff, Alumni

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April 22, 2015 | The UAMS College of Medicine celebrated the achievements and service of faculty members, staff and alumni at its fifth annual Dean’s Honor Day ceremony April 14 with numerous awards and the surprise announcement of an endowed scholarship campaign to honor academic leader Richard P. Wheeler, M.D.


March 20, 2015

UAMS to Host Journalist, Author Stobbe April 8 for National Public Health Week

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LITTLE ROCK — Associated Press national medical correspondent Mike Stobbe, Dr.P.H., author of Surgeon General’s Warning: How Politics Crippled the Nation’s Doctor, will give a lecture April 8 at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Fay W. Boozman College of Public Health.



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