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August 17, 2016
Walmart Foundation Awards $56,000 to UAMS for Diversity Programs
Aug. 17, 2016 | The Walmart Foundation has given $56,000 to the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) for its Center for Diversity Affairs Programs. The summer enrichment programs encourage students throughout the state to consider careers in health care. The presentation took place Aug. 17 as part of Walmart’s Day of Giving, held…
August 12, 2016
Researcher to Lead New Center for Childhood Obesity Prevention
Aug. 12, 2016 | UAMS researchers at a new National Institutes of Health-funded center will be working hard to shrink a number — the 39 percent of the state’s children who are overweight or obese. Funded by a $9.4 million, five-year grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), UAMS researcher Judith Weber, Ph. D.,…
August 10, 2016
Following Trauma, Arkansas Woman Hopes to Counsel Others
Aug. 10, 2016 | Life for the Boxx family changed dramatically on Dec. 26, 2013. Janet Boxx, her husband, David, their three children and an international student were traveling from Kansas City and were almost to their Bentonville home when they were involved in a three-vehicle accident just outside the Arkansas border. “The truck pulled…
College of Medicine Class of 2020 Dons White Coats
Aug. 10, 2016 | The 174 freshmen in the UAMS College of Medicine’s class of 2020 donned white coats Aug. 5 in a ceremony symbolizing the start of their journey toward becoming physicians. Before a crowd of family, friends and loved ones at the Statehouse Convention Center, the students first recited the medical student oath…
August 9, 2016
Patricia Cowan, Ph.D., R.N., Invested in Linda C. Hodges Dean’s Chair
Aug. 9, 2016 | Patricia A. Cowan, Ph.D. R.N., dean of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) College of Nursing, was invested Aug. 4 in the Linda C. Hodges Dean’s Chair. Cowan succeeds Lorraine Frazier, who left UAMS last year, as both the chair and dean. Cowan began at UAMS on Nov. 9,…
August 5, 2016
Artificial Cornea Procedure Restores Arkansas Woman’s Vision
Aug. 5, 2016 | An artificial cornea procedure, offered at UAMS Harvey & Bernice Jones Eye Institute, has allowed Jessica Ferguson to see again. Ferguson, 28, was working with bleach at a salon in 2006 when a chemical burn occurred that would alter the next several years of her life. “I put the bleach in a bowl,…
August 2, 2016
Hill at UAMS to See Trauma Care Operations
Aug. 2, 2016 | As U.S. Rep. French Hill walked into the UAMS Medical Center’s Emergency Department, a trauma patient arrived on a gurney after transport there by helicopter. Secured to the gurney and bandaged, the patient was wheeled into an examination room. Hill was there to witness firsthand the operation of the state’s only…
UAMS Vice Chancellor Recognized for Lifetime Achievement by American Society for Healthcare Engineering
LITTLE ROCK — Mark Kenneday, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) vice chancellor of operations, recently received the Crystal Eagle award from the American Society for Healthcare Engineering. Recognizing his lifetime achievement in health care engineering, the Crystal Eagle was presented July 11 to Kenneday at the society’s 53rd annual Conference and Technical Exhibition…
Educators Look to the Future of Teaching with Technology
Aug. 2, 2016 | “Imagine your doctor is able to practice the operation they’re going to do on you tomorrow. How many people would like that?” Everyone in the audience raised their hands. “Exactly,” said T. Glenn Pait, M.D., professor of neurosurgery and orthopedic surgery at UAMS. Pait was kicking off the 10th annual Teaching…
July 29, 2016
Boozman at UAMS to Support Radiologist Assistants
July 29, 2016 | U.S. Sen. John Boozman said Friday at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) that legislation he is sponsoring in Congress would increase patient access to care by allowing radiologist assistants to be reimbursed for certain procedures that have traditionally been performed by radiologists. The Medicare Access to Radiology Care Act…
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