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September 12, 2013
Help UAMS Patients while Voting on the Best Tasting Bacon at the Rock Town Bacon Throwdown Oct. 5
LITTLE ROCK – Tickets are on sale now for the first Rock Town Bacon Throwdown, 1 p.m., Oct. 5 at War Memorial Stadium in Little Rock, a competition featuring local professional chefs serving their best bacon dishes in a cookoff contest to benefit patients at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Medical Center.
September 11, 2013
Pioneering Arkansas Doctor, Philosopher Brought to Life at UAMS
Sept. 11, 2013 | The life and times of a pioneering doctor, farmer, philosopher, naturalist and independent thinker on the “wild frontier” of Arkansas during the last half of the nineteenth century was brought to life at a celebration of a new book featuring significant contributions from several UAMS faculty and library staff.
UAMS Names Efurd Chair of Department of Dental Hygiene
LITTLE ROCK – Melissa Efurd, Ed.D., M.S., an experienced dental hygiene program director, has been chosen to lead the program in the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) College of Health Professions.
September 10, 2013
UAMS Receives $135,000 for Health Education of Teachers
LITTLE ROCK — Through a unique statewide outreach program of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), two grants totaling $135,000 will fund professional development for Arkansas’ pre-K-12 teachers.
UAMS Receives $135,000 for Teacher Health Education
Sept. 10, 2013 | Through a unique statewide outreach program of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), two grants totaling $135,000 will fund professional development for Arkansas’ pre-K-12 teachers.
September 9, 2013
UAMS Alumnus Gives $500,000 to Honor Surgeon
LITTLE ROCK – Retired Little Rock otolaryngologist J. Floyd Kyser, M.D., recently gave $500,000 to the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) for a professorship to honor the surgeon who trained with him as a resident and went on to become an international leader in otolaryngology and head and neck surgery at UAMS.
September 6, 2013
Two New UAMS Researchers Win Funding for Asthma, Cardiovascular Studies
LITTLE ROCK – Two University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) researchers, Joshua Kennedy, M.D., and Elvin Price, Pharm.D., Ph.D., are the newest recipients of the UAMS Translational Research Institute KL2 Scholar Career Development Awards, which will provide them with salary and research support for two years.
September 4, 2013
Makhoul Named Director of UAMS Division of Hematology/Oncology
LITTLE ROCK – Issam Makhoul, M.D., has been named director of the Division of Hematology/Oncology in the UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute. He will serve as the inaugural holder of the Laura F. Hutchins, M.D. Distinguished Chair for the Division of Hematology/Oncology.
August 30, 2013
UAMS Researchers Land $2 Million NIH Grant to Study Golgi Apparatus
Aug. 30, 2013 | A pair of UAMS College of Medicine researchers recently received a five-year, nearly $2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop super-resolution holography methods to study the Golgi apparatus and defects that have been associated with conditions such as glaucoma, chlamydia infection, neurodegenerative disease, viral entry and aging.
August 29, 2013
UAMS/Schmieding Names Christensen as Project Director
LITTLE ROCK — Margaret Christensen has joined the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Schmieding Center for Health and Education in Springdale as project director for the $3.5 million Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Health Care Innovation Challenge Award.
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