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August 31, 2016
Geriatrics and Long-Term Care Update to be Held Sept. 22-24 at UAMS
LITTLE ROCK — Physicians, nurses, dietitians, pharmacists, long-term care administrators, social workers and the public are invited to the 17th annual Geriatrics and Long-Term Care Update from Sept. 22- 24 at the Donald W. Reynolds Institute on Aging on the campus of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS). Registration closes Sept. 9. The…
August 29, 2016
Hand and Nerve Specialist Mark Tait, M.D., Joins UAMS Orthopaedics Department
Aug. 29, 2016 | Hand and upper extremity surgeon Mark Tait, M.D., has joined the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS). He is also an assistant professor in the Department of Orthopaedics in the UAMS College of Medicine. He began Aug. 15. “We are excited to have Dr. Tait join our staff,” said C….
Hand and Nerve Specialist John Bracey, M.D., Joins UAMS Orthopaedics Department
Aug. 29, 2016 | Hand surgeon John W. Bracey Jr., M.D., has joined the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS). He is also an assistant professor in the Department of Orthopaedics in the UAMS College of Medicine. He began Aug. 15. “Dr. Bracey was a tremendous resident in our program, and we are excited…
August 26, 2016
2016 UAMS Alumni Weekend Reunites Classmates, Friends
Aug. 26, 2016 | Although he’d traveled from Anchorage, Alaska, to Little Rock for the weekend, Tim Coalwell, M.D., felt a little guilty about winning a prize for the longest drive. “That’s because I didn’t drive,” quipped Coalwell, a 1991 UAMS College of Medicine graduate. Held Aug. 19-21 at the University of Arkansas for Medical…
August 24, 2016
Med Student Hopes Minority Scholarship Inspires Others
Aug. 24, 2016 | Amanda Compadre, a third-year medical student at UAMS, is grateful to have been named a 2016 AMA Foundation Minority Scholarship Award recipient by the American Medical Association, but more importantly, she hopes this inspires more people from minority backgrounds to pursue a career in medicine. “It’s a national, prestigious award that…
August 18, 2016
UAMS Invites Public to First Community Scientist Academy
LITTLE ROCK — Arkansans interested in helping ensure that research programs at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) represent the needs of their communities are invited to participate in UAMS’ first Community Scientist Academy. Sponsored by the UAMS Translational Research Institute, the Community Scientist Academy will be every Thursday in September, beginning Sept….
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,…
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