University of Arkansas System President Dr. Donald R. Bobbitt has named longtime senior audit director Gina Terry as chief financial officer for the UA System.
Terry, the former senior regional audit director who joined the UA System in 2001, took over the role Sept. 1. Jacob Flournoy, chief audit executive, had served as the interim chief financial officer.
Primary care physicians can earn 21.75 hours of continuing education at the 21st annual Family Medicine Update with Tobacco and Disease Preconference from Oct. 26-28 at the Jackson T. Stephens Spine & Neurosciences Institute at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS).
Topics include mental health, tobacco use, sexually transmitted diseases, new insulin therapies, personalized treatment, immunotherapy, dirty wounds, and dog bites. The conference is sponsored by the UAMS Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, Continuing Medical Education Division.
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.
