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December 21, 2011

Diana Smithson Named Volunteer of the Year

Nate Hinkel

Dec. 21, 2011 | The UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute Auxiliary recently honored one of their own when Diana Smithson was named 2011 Volunteer of the Year.


UAMS College of Nursing Receives $162,000 to Link With Delta Nursing Homes for Education, Patient Care

David Robinson

LITTLE ROCK – Using a $162,002 federal grant, the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) will soon put telecommunications to work in the Arkansas Delta improving the education levels of nursing home caregivers and enabling UAMS’ geriatrics specialists to see patients in long-term care facilities in the Delta.


Tucker Heads Development at UAMS Psychiatric Institute

Nate Hinkel

<span class=”content”>LITTLE ROCK – Betty Allen Tucker has been named development director for the Psychiatric Research Institute at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), where she will be responsible for raising funds and developing donor relationships for the state’s only academic mental-health facility.</span>


December 20, 2011

UAMS’ Beverly Awarded International Nursing Honor

Nate Hinkel

Dec. 20, 2011 | Claudia Beverly, Ph.D., R.N., professor in the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) College of Nursing and director of the Hartford Center of Geriatric Nursing Excellence, was given an international award for leadership by the nursing profession’s honor society.


December 16, 2011

UAMS Sets January Computer Classes for People 50 and Up

David Robinson

LITTLE ROCK – Computer classes on Fundamentals for Beginners, Introduction to Computers, Exploring Windows 7 and Intro to the Internet will be taught in January for people ages 50 and older at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Donald W. Reynolds Institute on Aging.


UAMS Professors Lend Expertise to Haiti

David Robinson

Dec. 16, 2011 | Two UAMS professors are helping rebuild Haiti’s clinical laboratory services, a key part of the country’s earthquake-devastated health care system.


December 14, 2011

Two-Time Cancer Survivor Fights Back

David Robinson

Dec. 14, 2011 | Fifteen years after undergoing a mastectomy to remove a cancerous tumor from her right breast, Sherry Tuminello thought her fight was over. Unfortunately, she was wrong.


UAMS College of Pharmacy Invests Pediatric Clinical Pharmacist

Nate Hinkel

<span class=”content”>LITTLE ROCK – Holly Maples, Pharm.D., recently was invested with the Jeff and Kathy Lewis Sanders College of Pharmacy Endowed Chair in Pediatrics that will promote efficient, top-notch pharmacy practice for children and families for future generations. </span>


December 12, 2011

UAMS Simulation Instructors Draw a Crowd in India

David Robinson

Dec. 12, 2011 | When UAMS staff arrived in Hyderabad, India, to teach nursing students and faculty how to train with manikins that simulate patient responses, they expected more than 100 to attend.


December 9, 2011

Young Women Explore Orthopaedics Careers

David Robinson

Dec. 9, 2011 | Saws buzzed and drills whirred on a recent Saturday as 28 young women with goggles and scrubs inserted rods into leg bones and repaired knee ligaments in a lab at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS).



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