Melissa Clark, PharmD, MPH, has been named the director of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) 12th Street Health & Wellness Center.
Since 2017, Clark has served as assistant director of the 12th Street Center. She replaces Lanita White, PharmD, as director following White’s promotion to UAMS College of Pharmacy assistant dean for student affairs.
The Arkansas Department of Health (ADH) has identified three confirmed cases and one suspected case of mumps on the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville campus in the last few weeks. Students, faculty, and staff are encouraged to make sure they are up to date on their Measles Mumps Rubella (MMR) vaccination and to seek care if they experience symptoms.
The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) has established the Institute for Digital Health & Innovation, and named Curtis Lowery, MD, as its director.
Lowery is founder and medical director of the UAMS Center for Distance Health. He also served for many years as chair of the UAMS Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology in the College of Medicine. C. Lowry Barnes, MD, will serve as interim chair of the department while a search for a permanent chair is conducted. Barnes is chair of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery.
Arkansas Blue Cross and Blue Shield and the Arkansas Department of Health (ADH) are urging Arkansans to take advantage of safe and proven vaccines to prevent a possible outbreak of measles in the Natural State.
The public is invited to hear Nobel laureate Harold Varmus, MD, an expert in cancer biology and former director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and National Cancer Institute (NCI), at 8:30 a.m. on March 12 at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS).
The free lecture, “Cancer Research: Then and Now,” will be held in the I. Dodd Wilson Education Building auditorium. Varmus is giving the Robert E. McGehee Jr., PhD, Distinguished Lectureship in Biomedical Research as part of the UAMS Graduate School’s annual Student Research Day.
