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Summit to Address Youth Substance Use, Prevention Strategies
Project H.E.A.R.T. Camp Educates Future Healthcare Professionals
U of A and UAMS Advance Joint Research Through Razorback Research Catalyst
Baptist Health Acquires South Arkansas Regional Hospital
Venkat Kalapatapu, MD, Returns to UAMS as Chief of Division of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery
James C. Walker, MD, FACS, Joins Baptist Health Surgical and Specialty Clinic-Conway
Children’s Miracle Network Partners Donate More than $5.3 M to Arkansas Children’s
UAMS Researchers Find that Smart Food Lockers Expand Access to Healthy Food in Arkansas
August 3, 2025
Baptist Health Offers Free Diabetes Empo...

Baptist Health Community Outreach is holding two sessions of the Diabetes Education & Empowerment Program (DEEP) with the first starting in August.

The program provides hands-on and interactive diabetes education sessions open to those with Type 2 diabetes and prediabetes. It will also discuss monitoring, complications, medications, and movement. Participants learn how to make healthier food choices together. 

There will be two upcoming sessions of DEEP classes with each session lasting six consecutive weeks. They are as follows:

August 3, 2025
UAMS Receives $720K Gift from Frank Thre...

The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) received a $720,702 gift from the trust of the late Frank Thelkeld, MD, to support key initiatives in the UAMS College of Medicine.

“UAMS is deeply thankful to be included in Frank Threlkeld’s legacy of generosity, a gesture that is especially meaningful considering that he was a graduate of UAMS,” said C. Lowry Barnes, MD, interim chancellor of UAMS. “Dr. Threlkeld’s memory will live on through the many initiatives that this gift will support.”

July 28, 2025
CHI St. Vincent Honored by AMA Diabetic,...

CHI St. Vincent  announced that CHI St. Vincent Morrilton has been recognized with four American Heart Association Get With The Guidelines® Awards for stroke and cardiovascular care. The hospital was honored with the Coronary Artery Disease STEMI Referring Silver Plus, Rural Stroke Bronze, Rural Coronary Artery Disease NSTE-ACS Gold, and Rural Coronary Artery Disease STEMI Gold Awards. 

July 28, 2025
Sravani Gundarlapalli, MD, Joins UAMS Di...

Sravani Gundarlapalli, MD, has joined the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) as a hematologist oncologist and assistant professor in the UAMS College of Medicine’s Division of Hematology Oncology in the Department of Internal Medicine.

July 28, 2025
Baptist Health Family Practices in DeWit...

Baptist Health Family Clinic-DeWitt and Baptist Health Stuttgart Medical Clinic welcomed Reid Counce, MD, to their teams. 

Counce, a native of Crocketts Bluff, earned a degree from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences and completed a residency through UAMS’ internal medicine and pediatrics program.