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UAMS, University of Arkansas-Fort Smith Forge Agreement to Expand Healthcare Education Pathways
State Medical Society Elects Officers
UAMS Receives $1M to Create Endowed Funds in Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute
Sisira Yadala, MD, Honored with AMS Best Faculty Award
Dorothy Snider Foundation Awards $110K Grant to UAMS College of Medicine for Scholarships
CARTI Cuts Ribbon on Heber Springs Cancer Center
Arkansas Children’s Names Alison Ziari, MD, as Senior VP of Practice Plan, President of ACPSO
Second Annual Baptist Health Stroke Walk is May 29 in Little Rock
November 12, 2018
UAMS Researcher Awarded $350,000 Fellows...

UAMS researcher Nickolas Zaller, PhD, recently was awarded a three-year, $350,000 research fellowship for a new telehealth counseling pilot study in the West Memphis area for individuals on probation or parole who have behavioral health disorders.

The purpose of the study is to determine if providing counseling services through telemedicine to people on probation or parole can improve their behavioral health outcomes and reduce the frequency at which they commit new offenses and return to prison or jail.

November 12, 2018
UAMS Medical Center Named ‘Most Wired’ H...

The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Medical Center recently won the Most Wired Award for the fourth year in a row from the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME).

November 12, 2018
G. Richard Smith, MD, Named Chair of UAM...

G. Richard Smith, MD, has been named chairman of the Department of Psychiatry in the College of Medicine at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) and director of UAMS’ Psychiatric Research Institute.

November 12, 2018
Healthy Active Arkansas, Arkansas First...

Healthy Active Arkansas (HAA) and the Junior League of Little Rock (JLLR) have partnered again this year to offer a breastfeeding nook for breastfeeding moms as part of the 2018 Holiday House. The nook is a comfortable, private space for mothers who need to breastfeed their children or pump while visiting the event. This is the second year that a designated breastfeeding space has been offered as part of Holiday House.

Peer counselors from the Arkansas Department of Health will be at the breastfeeding nook and available to answer questions about breastfeeding.

November 12, 2018
UAMS Cancer Researchers Receive NIH Gran...

Researchers at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) have received a $604,208 grant to study how an abnormal protein found in ovarian cancer and some brain tumors helps tumors grow.