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April 11, 2017
Cataract Surgery Brings Color Back for Little Rock Artist
April 11, 2017 | There are many things graphic artist and retired art teacher Jodi Shull loves about art, but she loves the vibrant colors most. “I love being able to manipulate them in many ways,” she said. Shull, 65, has made art a lifetime passion and career. She previously owned a studio in downtown…
Med Student from Russellville Looks Forward to Psychiatry
April 11, 2017 | For most of her career as a medical student, Meghan Kerin thought she would practice internal medicine. She had a change of heart during her psychiatry rotation. “Dr. Tariq would tell us in medical school to pick the field we feel we can do the most good. I believe for me,…
April 10, 2017
UAMS Sets SeniorNet May Computer Classes for People 50 and Up
April 10, 2017 | Three computer classes — Introduction to Computers Windows 10, Microsoft Excel and Fundamentals for Computers — and three workshops — One-on-One Computer Support, Tips & Tricks: iPhone & iPad and Computer Maintenance — will be taught in April for people ages 50 and older at the University of Arkansas for Medical…
April 7, 2017
Dean Keith Olsen, Pharm. D., Invested in UAMS College of Pharmacy Dean’s Chair
April 7, 2017 | Keith Olsen, Pharm.D., dean of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) College of Pharmacy, was invested April 6 as the recipient of the College of Pharmacy Dean’s Chair. Olsen was presented with a medallion commemorating the investiture by UAMS Chancellor Dan Rahn, M.D., and Stephanie Gardner, Pharm.D., Ed.D., UAMS…
April 6, 2017
Johns Hopkins Professor Says Include Black Males in Health Research
April 6, 2017 | Future health research must include a sufficient number of black men, to ensure the most effective care and strategy for the minority group, said Roland Thorpe, Ph.D., an associate professor in the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. To be valid, it also must ensure that black men stay with…
April 3, 2017
Bony Sinus Tumor Removed Without a Single Cut
April 3, 2017 | Mary Neal French went in for surgery to remove a bony tumor from her sinus last September and woke up to find the tumor gone. But her surgeon didn’t have to make a single cut. French said she began having headaches with a lot of pressure in July. She believed it…
March 31, 2017
Genomics Workshop Ignites Students’ Passion for Research
March 31, 2017 | A two-day workshop at UAMS made undergraduate student Daniel Games eager to get to something most people want to avoid — viruses. “I didn’t expect to get this much hands-on work,” Games said. “That was great. The workshop lectures were interesting, too, but today was all hands-on software work. We got…
March 30, 2017
UAMS Cancer Researcher Awarded $1.7 Million NIH Grant to Study Prevention of Radiation-Induced Cancer
A $1.7 million grant from the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) will allow a University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) researcher to study a potential new therapy to reduce the risk of blood cancer caused by ionizing radiation.
March 29, 2017
Medical Training Using Simulation Technology Goes to Delta
March 29, 2017 | Simulation education from UAMS is in a van that’s headed for the Arkansas Delta. The Greater Delta Alliance for Health recently acquired and outfitted a new van packed with manikins and other equipment. The UAMS Centers for Simulation Education will use the van and the technology it will transport to teach…
March 28, 2017
UAMS Opens OrthoNow Walk-In, After-Hours Clinic on April 3
March 28, 2017 | The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) is opening a walk-in, after-hours orthopaedics clinic — OrthoNow — on April 3 at the UAMS Orthopaedics Clinic at 600 Autumn Road. OrthoNow will be open 5-8 p.m. Monday through Thursday and 8 a.m. – noon Saturdays for general orthopaedics issues. Patients will not…
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