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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
May 7, 2018
Philander Smith College Nursing Nook Ope...

Brittany Taylor became a mother in 2016. It wasn’t until she chose to breastfeed her child that Taylor, a student of Philander Smith College (PSC), realized that there was no place for parents to breastfeed on campus.

“I am glad to say, in 2018, I helped establish the first Nursing Nook on the Philander Smith College campus geared toward offering a space to students and employees who are nursing,” said Taylor, who is the 2017-2018 Miss Philander Smith College and a Healthy Active Arkansas ambassador.

May 6, 2018
New State Adoption File Rules to Affect...

Starting Aug. 1, individuals who have been adopted (adoptees) may request their adoption file from the Arkansas Department of Health (ADH). Forms are now available online for birth parents who wish to redact their name from an adoption file, or update their contact or medical information.

May 6, 2018
UAMS, Roller Funeral Homes Dedicate Memo...

In memory of pregnancy and infant loss, the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Love Lives Program and Roller Funeral Homes dedicated the Love Lives Memorial at Riverwood Memorial Gardens Cemetery in Maumelle.

Love Lives, the UAMS perinatal bereavement program, worked with Roller Funeral Homes to establish the memorial garden as a final resting place for some. For others, it may be a consecrated place of quiet reflection where families and loved ones may come to feel close to their precious little ones whom they will always remember. 

May 6, 2018
UAMS Professor Named Chair-elect of the...

Omar T. Atiq, MD, FACP, has been named chair-elect of the board of governors of the American College of Physicians (ACP), the national organization of internists.  His term began during Internal Medicine Meeting 2018, ACP’s annual scientific meeting held in New Orleans in April.

May 6, 2018
$1 Million Estate Gift to Benefit Breast...

A $1 million gift from the estate of Linda Garner Riggs to the Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) will be used to advance research of triple negative breast cancer. Riggs, who died in Nov. 2017, was a former Arkansas insurance commissioner and managing director at Stephens Inc.