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April 24, 2019

UAMS Celebrates 20 Years of the Schmieding Center for Senior Health and Education

David Wise

UAMS Schmieding Appreciation Event

FAYETTEVILLE – The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) today held a celebration to honor the legacy of Lawrence Schmieding and the 20th anniversary of the UAMS Schmieding Center for Senior Health and Education in Springdale. Held at the center at 2422 N. Thompson St., the event drew members of UAMS leadership and staff,…

April 2, 2019

Garcia-Rill Closing Out Successful 15-Year NIH Grant, Distinguished Career

David Robinson

For Edgar Garcia-Rill, Ph.D., successful leadership of the Center for Translational Neuroscience includes his many honors for mentorship of early-career researchers.

After 50 years as a biomedical researcher, Edgar Garcia-Rill, Ph.D., is close to hanging up his lab coat. When he does, he’ll look back on the last 15 years as the most rewarding of his distinguished career. “It will be like retiring after winning the Super Bowl,” said the UAMS professor in the Department of…

April 1, 2019

Patient Bikes East Coast to Fight Myeloma

Linda Haymes

This year, myeloma patient Alan Wolfson of Lakewood Ranch, Florida, will take an 18-day, 500-mile ride from Virginia Beach, Virginia, to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the destination of his first ride in 2002. He’s leaving May 1 and has already gathered more than $4,000 in pledges for the Myeloma Center.

Since 2002, Alan Wolfson of Lakewood Ranch, Florida, has taken an annual bike ride most years along the east coast to raise money for the UAMS Myeloma Center. Averaging about $20,000 in contributions from his friends and supporters for each ride, he’s already pedaled his way to about $210,000 for the center. This year, Wolfson,…

February 27, 2019

UAMS Researchers Lead First Rapid Sequencing of Multiple Viruses Using Pocket-Sized Device

David Robinson

Thidathip (Tip) Wongsurawat, Ph.D., with the hand-held nanopore device used for the first time to sequence multiple viruses.

An international team of researchers led by the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) is the first to deploy a pocket-sized nanopore device for rapid genetic sequencing of multiple human viruses. The findings are published in the journal Frontiers in Microbiology, the world’s most cited microbiology journal. UAMS’ Thidathip (Tip) Wongsurawat, Ph.D., and Piroon…

February 15, 2019

Public Invited to Learn About, Sign Up for Historic Research Volunteer Program at UAMS

David Robinson

The NIH All of Us program will visit UAMS March 5-9.

NOTE: This release has been updated to reflect a change in the All of Us Exhibit and Enrollment Center schedule at UAMS. The traveling exhibit/center will be on the UAMS Little Rock campus through Friday, March 8, not Saturday, as previously planned. LITTLE ROCK — The public is invited to the traveling National Institutes of…

February 14, 2019

UAMS Physician, Nurse Honored by Legislature

Spencer Watson

Lawrence O'Malley and Jo Smith at the Arkansas State Capitol.

A UAMS physician and nurse were honored Feb. 12 by the Arkansas Legislature with temporary appointments to meet the representatives’ health care needs, along with those of State Capitol guests. Orthopedic specialist Lawrence O’Malley, M.D., and Jo Smith, a nurse and the director of special projects in the UAMS Center for Patients and Families, were…

February 13, 2019

Sally the Robot Now Serving Custom Salads at UAMS

Liz Caldwell

Laura Rule, service line nursing director, was the first at UAMS to have a salad prepared by Sally the robot.

A robot named Sally — the first robot of its kind in the industry — is making customized salads 24 hours a day at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), providing guests and employees with a healthy meal option to meet individual needs. Sally was installed Jan. 30 in the Lobby Café and…

Sally the Robot Now Serving Custom Salads at UAMS

Liz Caldwell

A robot named Sally — the first robot of its kind in the industry — is making customized salads 24 hours a day at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), providing guests and employees with a healthy meal option to meet individual needs. Sally was installed Jan. 30 in the Lobby Café and…

February 12, 2019

First Responders’ Mental Health Focus of UAMS Nursing Research

Spencer Watson

New research will focus on the mental health needs of first responders, including firefighters and paramedics.

In researching the mental health needs of emergency responders, Sara Jones, Ph.D., APRN, who has long been the spouse of a firefighter/paramedic, reports they have a unique culture, often seen as a brotherhood/sisterhood. But Jones, an assistant professor in the UAMS College of Nursing, has found that even within that family, there are certain things…

February 6, 2019

Digitally Assisted System Improves Retina Surgery

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Surgical Technician Don Kinney demonstrates the Ngenuity 3D Visualization System during surgery.

The Harvey & Bernice Jones Eye Institute at UAMS is now using the Ngenuity 3D Visualization System for surgeries on the eye’s retina as part of its ongoing effort to harness the latest technology in the name of improving patient care. Designed for digitally assisted vitreoretinal surgery, the system makes performing these surgeries easier for…


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