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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
March 4, 2018
UAMS Receives International Recognition...

UAMS Medical Center is the only hospital in central Arkansas to have received international recognition as “baby-friendly” for its policies and procedures encouraging new mothers to breastfeed as a healthier way to feed their babies.

The World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) launched the Baby-friendly Hospital Initiative in 1991 as a global program to assist hospitals in giving all mothers the information, confidence, and skills necessary to successfully initiate and continue breastfeeding

March 4, 2018
Arkansas Urology Acquires ExactVu™ Micro...

Arkansas Urology announced that it is the first customer in the state of Arkansas to acquire Exact Imaging’s ExactVu™ high resolution micro-ultrasound system for targeted prostate biopsies. The ultrasound-guided prostate biopsy is the standard-of-care procedure that allows urologists to sample a man’s prostate and gather biopsy tissue that can be analyzed pathologically to determine the presence of prostate cancer.  

March 4, 2018
Hot Springs Neurosurgery Clinic Joins CH...

Neurosurgeons James M. Arthur, MD, and Justin Dowdy, MD, with the Hot Springs Neurosurgery Clinic have joined the CHI St. Vincent medical group. 

February 25, 2018
Gundogdu Joins UAMS as Neuromuscular Dis...

Betul Gundogdu, MD, has joined the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) as a neurologist specializing in neuromuscular disorders.

February 25, 2018
Accelerate PhenoTM at UAMS Significantly...

A new technology at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) reduces from days to hours the time it takes to identify pathogens associated with life-threatening blood-borne infections.

The FDA-approved Accelerate Pheno system also quickly identifies which antibiotic would be most effective on a case-by-case basis. It is the latest addition to the Clinical Microbiology Laboratory’s array of industry-redefining technologies for the identification and treatment of infectious diseases.