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December 5, 2016
UAMS Recognizes Community Partners at Celebration Dinner
Dec. 5, 2016 | The UAMS Translational Research Institute honored UAMS’ many Arkansas community partners Nov. 18 with its fourth annual Community Partner Celebration. During the event at the Centre at University Park in Little Rock, Naomi Cottoms, executive director of Tri County Rural Health Network (Tri County), accepted the first Chancellor’s Community Research Partner…
December 1, 2016
Liberian Travels to Arkansas to Thank Surgeon
Dec. 1, 2016 | Like most UAMS physicians, colorectal surgeon Jonathan Laryea, M.D., feels the responsibility to give back to the community. Unlike most UAMS physicians, his community includes the West African nation of Ghana where he grew up. For more than 20 years, Laryea, an associate professor for surgery in the UAMS College of…
November 30, 2016
New UAMS West Building Combines Local Ideas, Builders
Nov. 30, 2016 | Construction crews, most of them from western Arkansas, are wielding tools to take the ideas gathered from local patients, health care providers and design experts and shape them into the new UAMS West Regional Campus clinic building in Fort Smith they imagined. By spring, those physicians, nurses, staff members and area patients…
November 29, 2016
June O’Keefe Named UAMS Cancer Institute Volunteer of the Year
Nov. 29, 2016 | For more than nine years, June O’Keefe has quietly made a difference in the lives of Arkansas’ cancer patients. Her efforts were recognized Nov. 17 when she was named Volunteer of the Year by the UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute Auxiliary. “June is always upbeat, outgoing and has a wonderful…
November 21, 2016
UAMS, Arkansas Department of Education Partner to Implement $1.2 Million Grant for School Telemedicine
Nov. 21, 2016 | The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) and the Arkansas Department of Education are partnering to implement a $1.2 million pilot program that will provide telemedicine to students, educators and families in rural Arkansas communities. School Telemedicine in Arkansas (STAR) is the first ever effort to bring telemedicine care to Arkansas’…
November 18, 2016
UAMS Highlights Advanced Practice Nurses For Nurse Practitioners Week
Nov. 18, 2016 | Each day, more than 150 advanced practice nurses (APNs) serve UAMS in a gamut of clinical areas as well as in education, shaping the next generation of nursing professionals. UAMS has more than 90 APNs who provide services in primary care, acute care, gerontology, women’s health, psychiatric and mental health, neonatal,…
UAMS Showers Local Veterans with Care Packages
Nov. 18, 2016 | UAMS delivered 375 care packages to local veterans Nov. 10 and 11 to thank them for their service and celebrate Veterans Day. That’s just one of the ways UAMS faculty, staff and students honored those who have served the country. The month-long celebration of veterans is organized by the UAMS Veterans…
November 17, 2016
UAMS’ van Rhee Receives Award for Castleman Disease
Nov. 17, 2016 | Frits van Rhee, M.D., Ph.D., was awarded the Castleman Disease Warrior Award for Best Physician of the Year Nov. 4 by the Castleman Disease Collaborative Network (CDCN) at its third annual Patients & Loved Ones Summit in Philadelphia. CDCN was established in 2012 to accelerate research and treatment for Castleman Disease —…
UAMS 12th Street Health & Wellness Center to Provide Health Screenings Dec. 1 for World AIDS Day
Nov. 17, 2016 | In observance of World AIDS Day, the public is invited to participate in free health care screenings from 5-8 p.m. Dec. 1 at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) 12th Street Health & Wellness Center, 4010 W. 12th St. The center will provide free HIV testing. The testing will…
November 16, 2016
Schmieding Program in Springdale Hosts Healthy Families #Stick Together Nov. 18
Nov. 16, 2017 | A program to educate families and caregivers on the importance of adult vaccinations will be held from noon-1 p.m. Nov. 18 at the Schmieding Center for Senior Health & Education in Springdale, part of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS). Healthy Families #Stick Together is presented by the National Alliance…
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