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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
June 22, 2025
Baptist Health Orthopedic Clinic-Little...

Baptist Health Orthopedic Clinic-Little Rock welcomed Rena McDonough, APRN, to its team. 

As a nurse practitioner, McDonough offers a range of healthcare services with a focus in adult gerontology. 

June 22, 2025
Arkansas’ Troubled Health Landscape Coul...

By: Tess Vrbin - June 18, 2025 Arkansas Advocate

Arkansas ranks 48th in a nationwide assessment of health care access, affordability, equity and outcomes, according to a Commonwealth Fund report released Wednesday.

The foundation analyzed 50 health indicators for all 50 states plus the District of Columbia. In the six categories into which the report divided the indicators, Arkansas ranked:

-42nd in health care access and affordability

-41st in prevention and treatment of health problems

June 16, 2025
UAMS Chancellor Stepping Down After 7 Ye...

By: Tess Vrbin - June 10, 2025 Arkansas Advocate Home | Arkansas Advocate

The leader of Arkansas’ largest healthcare system will step down after seven years for personal and medical reasons, the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences announced Tuesday in a news release.

Dr. Cam Patterson became the university’s chancellor in June 2018. By giving up his position as chancellor and as UAMS Health CEO, he will return to being a faculty member in the university’s cardiology department.

June 16, 2025
Kristi Putnam Steps Down as Arkansas Hum...

By: Sonny Albarado - June 11, 2025  Arkansas Advocate Home | Arkansas Advocate

Arkansas State Medicaid Director Janet Mann will become secretary of the Department of Human Services next month as Secretary Kristi Putnam returns to Kentucky, the governor’s office announced Wednesday.

June 16, 2025
UAMS Performs Epilepsy Surgery as Part o...

Surgeons from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) have performed the first transplantation in Arkansas of interneuron cell therapy, called NRTX-1001, into a patient with non-lesional epilepsy as part of an FDA-approved clinical trial under way at multiple locations across the United States.

Four months later, the 33-year-old patient, who has had seizures daily since the age of 12, reports a significant reduction in all three types of seizures he has experienced for more than half his life.