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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
January 13, 2025
Gov. Sarah Sanders to Speak at Mental He...

The Arkansas Council on Behavioral Health will host a Mental Health Day at the Capitol from 9 a.m.-12 noon in the rotunda of Arkansas’s state capitol on Jan. 29. The purpose of this day is to highlight successes and raise awareness of the need for and challenge in comprehensive behavioral health services to meet the population health needs in Arkansas.

Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders is scheduled to speak at the event, which will include presentations from various behavioral health service providers who work daily to meet the needs of Arkansans.

January 6, 2025
Two Transplant Surgeons Join UAMS

John R. Montgomery, MD, and Tsukasa Nakamura, MD, PhD, have joined the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) as liver, kidney, and pancreas transplant surgeons. 

Both will also serve as assistant professors in the College of Medicine Department of Surgery. 

January 6, 2025
Northwest Health Welcomes OB/GYN Tiffany...

Northwest Health welcomed Tiffany Weathers, MD, to its medical staff. Weathers specializes in obstetrics and gynecology and is accepting new patients at Northwest OB/GYN – Willow Creek, located at 5501 Willow Creek Drive, Suite 202, in Springdale.

Weathers has been in practice for more than 15 years.

She received a medical education at Universidad Autonoma de Guadalajara School of Medicine in Guadalajara, Mexico. She then completed an obstetrics and gynecology residency at The State University of New York in Albany, New York. She is bilingual in English and Spanish.

January 6, 2025
Arkansas Children’s Receives $2M Grant f...

Arkansas Children's Northwest has received a $2 million challenge grant from the J.E. and L.E. Mabee Foundation to support its historic expansion project.
This funding marks the continuation of a 37-year partnership between Arkansas Children's and the Mabee Foundation, with total grants exceeding $8 million over the decades.

January 6, 2025
UAMS Receives $1.9 Million Department of...

The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences’ (UAMS) Institute for Digital Health & Innovation has received a three-year, $1.9 million grant from the U.S. Department of Justice to create a community-based emergency response program Little Rock schools.

“We are grateful to have been awarded these funds by the Department of Justice and look forward to improving safety infrastructure for our partner schools,” said Joseph Sanford, MD, the institute’s director.