Two College of Public Health faculty members have secured a $250,000 two-year contract to create a collaborative network between the faith community and University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) for the advancement of diversity in research.
Keneshia Bryant-Moore, PhD, RN, associate professor; and Tiffany Haynes, PhD, assistant professor, received the funding from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI).
Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge announced the conviction of a Ouachita County man for Medicaid fraud. Al Dodds pleaded guilty in Pulaski County Circuit Court, and Judge Wendell Griffin sentenced Dodds to pay $200,000 in restitution to the Arkansas Medicaid Program. If at any time he willfully violates the conditions of his suspended sentence, Dodds will spend up to 20 years in prison.
Construction crews, most of them from western Arkansas, are wielding tools to take the ideas gathered from local patients, health care providers and design experts and shape them into the new UAMS West clinic building in Fort Smith they imagined.
By spring, those physicians, nurses, staff members and area patients will walk into the realization of those ideas.
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The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) is collaborating with Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Celgene Corp. to compile the largest set of high-quality genetic data related to myeloma, a cancer of plasma cells in the blood.
