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The UAMS Medical Center earned earned an “A” Hospital Safety Grade from The Leapfrog Group.

UAMS Medical Center Only Hospital in Greater Little Rock Area to Receive ‘A’ Safety Grade from The Leapfrog Group

May 1, 2024 | LITTLE ROCK — The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Medical Center earned an “A” Hospital Safety Grade from The Leapfrog Group, a national nonprofit that awards letter grades to general hospitals around the country based on more than 30 measures of errors, accidents, injuries and infections as well as the systems that hospitals have in place to prevent them.

Yavonda Chase

Cam Patterson, chancellor of UAMS and CEO of UAMS Health, and Danna Taylor, president of South Arkansas Regional Hospital, cut the ribbon at the new UAMS Health Family Medical Center in El Dorado.

UAMS Health Family Medical Center Celebrates Grand Opening in El Dorado

March 27, 2024 | The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) held a ribbon-cutting ceremony today to celebrate the grand opening of the UAMS Health Family Medical Center in El Dorado. The Family Medical Center is located at 620 W. Grove St., Suite 202, in the former home of the South Arkansas Physician Group clinic. The clinic’s team...

Chris Carmody

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These programs were first broadcast the week of May 6, 2024

Nithya Neelakantan, Ph.D., is new faculty in the COPH.

Nithya Neelakantan, Ph.D., Joins UAMS Fay W. Boozman College of Public Health

Nithya Neelakantan, Ph.D., has joined the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Fay W. Boozman College of Public Health as an associate professor in the Department of Epidemiology. Neelakantan earned her master’s degree in biostatistics from Christian Medical College (CMC) in India and a doctorate in epidemiology from Saw Swee Hock School of Public…

Leonie DeClerk (shown in this image), clinical associate professor in the UAMS College of Nursing, is a 2024 inductee in the Fellows of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners program.

UAMS’ Leonie DeClerk, Ph.D., DNP, APRN, Selected as Fellow of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners

Leonie DeClerk, Ph.D., DNP, APRN, clinical associate professor in the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) College of Nursing, has been named as a 2024 inductee in the Fellows of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners program. The prestigious program recognizes nurse practitioners for their outstanding achievements and exemplary service in the areas of…

Members of the UAMS Institute for Community Health Innovation and the Springdale Chamber of Commerce cut a ribbon to celebrate the creation of UAMS' 8th institute.

UAMS Celebrates New Institute with Ribbon-Cutting in Springdale

FAYETTEVILLE — The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) cut the ribbon today on the UAMS Institute for Community Health Innovation, formally celebrating the establishment of UAMS’ eighth institution. Joining members of the institute at the celebration were the Springdale Chamber of Commerce and other local leaders. The UAMS Institute for Community Health Innovation…

Eduardo R. “Eddie” Ochoa Jr., M.D., winner of the Dean’s Distinguished Faculty Service Award, thanks colleagues and congratulates fellow award recipients at the UAMS College of Medicine 2024 Dean’s Honor Day ceremony.

UAMS College of Medicine Celebrates Excellence at 2024 Dean’s Honor Day

The College of Medicine at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) celebrated the excellence of faculty and staff at its annual Dean’s Honor Day ceremony on April 16, presenting awards for teaching, clinical care, research, administration, humanism and service.

Stephen T. Jackson, Ph.D., will present the annual Sandor Lecture on May 16 at UAMS.

Medicine and Sustainability Lecture at UAMS on May 16 to Focus on ‘Climate, Biodiversity and People’

LITTLE ROCK — The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) invites the public to attend a lecture series on medicine and sustainability on May 16 with a presentation by Stephen T. Jackson, Ph.D., scientist emeritus at the U.S. Geological Survey.

Rohit Dhall, M.D., chair of the UAMS Department of Neurology, discusses Parkinson's disease. Neurosurgeon Erika Petersen, M.D., who founded the annual Parkinson's Symposium, is in the background.

Experts Share New Treatments, Solutions for Parkinson’s Patients, Caregivers

New treatments for Parkinson’s disease, including drugs that researchers at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) have been working on for years, will finally become available in pharmacies this year, Rohit Dhall, M.D., predicted at the recent Ninth Annual Parkinson’s Symposium at UAMS. Dhall, who is also the medical director of the UAMS…

Marshallese Women Who Move to U.S. Less Likely to Breastfeed, UAMS Researchers Find

FAYETTEVILLE — Marshallese women who move to the United States may be less likely to exclusively breastfeed their children as they struggle to find appropriate education and support systems, according to researchers from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Institute for Community Health Innovation. UAMS researchers found Marshallese women living in the U.S….

Graduate School Spring Reception Recognizes Top Performers

The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Graduate School hailed faculty, staff and student successes at its Spring Awards Reception on April 18. “This is a celebration of all the great work that happens in our Graduate School,” said Dean Sean Taverna, Ph.D., from Biomedical Research Center I’s Helen Guinn Adams Atrium. Lance Benson,…

Steve Arhur, standing, in hospital gown, visits with John Arthur, M.D., in a patient bed, after the surgery in which Steve donate a kidney to John.

Brotherly Love — UAMS’ Chief Nephrologist Receives Kidney from Younger Sibling

John Arthur, chief kidney doctor at the University of Arkansas Medical Sciences (UAMS), understands the benefits of a living kidney donation more than most people would expect. As the director of the Division of Nephrology in the UAMS Department of Internal Medicine since 2015, he has long been aware that about 100,000 patients across the…