The Comprehensive Epilepsy Center at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) has been accredited with the highest designation available from the National Association of Epilepsy Centers.
The Level 4 accreditation means that UAMS is capable of performing the most complex surgeries for the treatment of epilepsy. The accreditation is valid through December of 2019. The nearest adult Level 4 epilepsy programs are in Jackson, Miss., and in Dallas.
Two faculty members in the University of Central Arkansas College of Health and Behavioral Sciences have been awarded a $50,000 grant to support an ongoing study on concussions in adolescent athletes.
Teresa Kramer, PhD, a professor in the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Department of Psychiatry, has been named the recipient of the 2018 Senator Percy Malone Child Protection Award by the Children’s Advocacy Centers of Arkansas (CACA).
Kramer received the award April 11 at a luncheon at the William Jefferson Clinton Presidential Center.
Thirty-two nurses from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) were named to the Great 100 Nurses Foundation’s annual list of the state’s superb nurses.
CHI St. Vincent Hot Springs announced that it is joining Arkansas Children’s Hospital Nursery Alliance, which coordinates care between neonatologists at ACH’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) and physicians in CHI St. Vincent Hot Springs’ Anthony Childbirth Center, further improving the quality of newborn care.
