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February 22, 2022
UAMS Researchers Find COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy Prevalent Even Among Vaccinated
FAYETTEVILLE — Researchers with the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Office of Community Health and Research recently published four articles on a study they conducted that found that many adults in Arkansas receiving the COVID-19 vaccine are doing so despite experiencing some doubts about the shot. The researchers determined – through a survey…
February 15, 2022
UAMS Receives $10 Million to Expand Community-Based Outreach Efforts to Increase COVID-19 Vaccinations
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 6, 2021
Schmieding Foundation Gives $300,000 to UAMS Kids First, the Schmieding Developmental Center
Funds Used to Move Locations, Purchase New Playground Equipment FAYETTEVILLE – The Schmieding Foundation in Springdale gifted $300,000 to help pay for new playground equipment and the costs of moving UAMS Schmieding Kids First and the UAMS Schmieding Developmental Center from Lowell to a new location in Springdale. The two centers will start moving to…
April 24, 2020
UAMS Pharmacy Alum Volunteers for COVID-19 Relief in California
A UAMS College of Pharmacy alumnus saw a need and decided to do something about it. Lee (Leland) Turner (class of 2014) traveled to Santa Clara, Calif., at the beginning of April to volunteer with an emergency relief organization called Team Rubicon that is delivering care to recovering COVID-19 patients in Silicon Valley. A native…
August 13, 2019
UAMS Joins Consortium to Advance Blending Complementary with Conventional Health Care Methods
The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) has joined the Academic Consortium for Integrative Medicine & Health as part of its effort to improve evidence-based integrative health research and patient care for Arkansans. Integrative health treats the whole patient by blending conventional and complementary health care methods to create a holistic, patient-focused approach to…
August 12, 2019
Northwest Arkansas Summit Addresses Medical Residency Shortage
FAYETTEVILLE – U.S. Sen. John Boozman, other state and local dignitaries, community leaders and health care experts today addressed the shortage of physician residency positions in Arkansas and how a bill being proposed by Boozman (“The Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act”) can help. Medical school graduates are required to complete residency training to practice medicine….
July 17, 2019
UAMS Translational Research Institute Launches Entrepreneurship Training Program with University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
A first-of-its-kind entrepreneurship training program at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) will teach its most promising young innovators how to move their health-science technologies into the marketplace. The UAMS Translational Research Institute kicked off the program with the announcement of its first four postdoctoral trainees in the Health Science Innovation & Entrepreneurship…
June 21, 2019
UAMS Names Jay Gandy Associate Provost For Northwest Regional Campus
LITTLE ROCK – The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) has named Jay Gandy, Ph.D., as associate provost at the UAMS Northwest Regional Campus effective Aug. 1. As associate provost, Gandy will be responsible for providing strategic and operational leadership to all academic programs in Northwest Arkansas. Gandy is currently the interim dean of…
June 19, 2019
New UAMS Biomedical Informatics Program Has First Graduate
The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) made history this spring with its first Master of Science graduate in biomedical informatics/translational bioinformatics. Biomedical informatics professionals use computational tools to learn from medical and public health information to improve human health. As one of the program’s first enrollees, Dina Elsayed was aware she would be…
May 29, 2019
UAMS, International Collaborators Use FDA-Approved Drugs to Extend Life in Worms
An international research collaboration that includes the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) has discovered that aging in nematodes (worms) can be slowed and even reversed by a number of Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved drugs, findings that have the potential to extend human lifespan. The study findings are published in Scientific Reports. The…
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