The Simulation Center at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) has been recognized as a program of quality in anesthesiology simulation, and approved by the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) to offer educational courses for anesthesiologists to hone their skills, and maintain their professional certifications.
A grant of more than $55,000 to the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) will assist healthcare providers across the state to identify and treat families with an inherited risk for cancer.
The one-year grant, totaling $55,554, was presented to Kristin Zorn, MD, director of the Division of Gynecologic Oncology in the UAMS College of Medicine, by the Arkansas Cancer Coalition (ACC) at its quarterly meeting on Sept. 12.
The Arkansas Children’s Nutrition Center (ACNC) will receive $7.4 million from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) through its Agricultural Research Service (ARS) to fund research in the areas of child development, maternal health, and disease prevention.
The funding will continue the center’s 23-year history of innovative research into how nutritional status, physical activity, and dietary factors shape human development, and influence susceptibility to childhood diseases, as well as those illnesses that initiate early in life, but do not appear until adulthood.
Radiation oncologist Thomas Kim, MD, has joined the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), and sees patients in the UAMS Radiation Oncology Center. He serves as an assistant professor in the UAMS College of Medicine Department of Radiation Oncology.
Kim’s medical and research interests include breast, gynecologic, and gastrointestinal malignancies.
Jerad Gardner, MD, an associate professor in the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) College of Medicine’s Departments of Pathology and Dermatology, was named among the top five of the American Society for Clinical Pathology’s “40 Under 40” 2017 list.
The “40 Under 40” list honors pathologists and laboratory medicine professionals, globally, under the age of 40. Gardner was named among the top five at the society’s annual meeting, held Sept. 6-8 in Chicago.
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