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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…
July 27, 2016
Arkansas Mutual Awards $10,000 Scholarship to UAMS Medical Student To Pursue Primary Care
July 27, 2016 | Mikaila Wilson Calcagni, of Fayetteville, has been awarded the Arkansas Mutual Medical Student Award, a scholarship for third-year medical students at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), who want to practice primary care in rural Arkansas.
July 26, 2016
Symposium Highlights Undergraduate Research from across Arkansas
July 26, 2016 | Tomorrow’s leaders in scientific research have been working hard this summer, and the Fifth Annual Central Arkansas Undergraduate Summer Research Symposium gave them a chance to showcase their efforts while practicing their presentation skills and learning about careers in science. On July 20, UAMS welcomed 114 undergraduate researchers, who came from…
Jerad M. Gardner, M.D., Named Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
July 26, 2016 | Jerad M. Gardner, M.D., an assistant professor in the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) College of Medicine’s departments of pathology and dermatology, was recently appointed as a deputy editor-in-chief of the Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine. He is the youngest in the journal’s 90-year history to receive the appointment….
Sickle Cell Program Going Strong
July 26, 2016 | William Cooney, 66, has stuck with UAMS for 63 years as a sickle cell patient because he said over decades of change it has consistently provided him with the care he needs. Through transformations inside and outside of UAMS, including moving the hospital from McAlmont Street to today’s campus in 1956,…
July 25, 2016
Public Invited to Autism Town Hall Aug. 9, Walk Kickoff
July 25, 2016 | The public is invited to a town hall featuring clinical and community outreach and education programs on autism and a kickoff of the 2016 Autism Speaks Walk from 4-5:30 p.m. Aug. 9 at Arkansas Children’s Hospital. The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) is holding the event in conjunction with…
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