Cardiologist J.L. Mehta, MD, PhD, of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) has received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Academy of Cardiovascular Sciences.
Mehta is a distinguished professor of medicine and physiology and biophysics and holds the Stebbins Chair in Cardiology in the UAMS College of Medicine.
Researchers at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) have received a $600,000 grant to study the Pulaski County Regional Crisis Stabilization Unit (CSU).
Arnold Ventures awarded the three-year grant to Nick Zaller, PhD, professor in the UAMS Fay W. Boozman College of Public Health, and Melissa Zielinski, PhD, assistant professor in the UAMS College of Medicine, who will serve as co-principal investigators.
Arkansas Children’s continues its statewide public launch of the Campaign for a Healthier Tomorrow, a $250 million campaign designed to support the promise of unprecedented child health. Since 2015, the Campaign for a Healthier Tomorrow has secured more than $200 million in gifts.
Baptist Health recently launched a new mobile application.The myBaptistHealth app offers appointment scheduling services, provider profiles, and a health library that is full of educational resources. Also housed within the app are Baptist Health Virtual Care and access to the MyChart patient portal.
“Baptist Health continuously looks for ways to meet our patients where they are,” said Troy Wells, president and CEO of Baptist Health. “The myBaptistHealth app is just one way we’re working to keep you connected to the state’s most trusted name in care.”
“I’m from Morrilton, Arkansas, and I’ve never lived out of state – or wanted to,” said Dr. Bryant Virden, a pediatric psychiatrist who recently joined Mercy Clinic Behavioral Health in Fort Smith. “Arkansas is my home and I intend to stay here.”
When Virden enrolled in medical school, he knew he wanted to care for children. It was his time working on the Child Diagnostic Unit at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences’ Psychiatric Research Institute in Little Rock that sparked his interest in child psychiatry.
