Center for Diversity Affairs
March 24, 2017
UAMS Visitor Talks Latino Health Paradox and Cinco de Mayo
March 24, 2017 | A couple of common misconceptions about Hispanics were highlighted in talks by David E. Hayes-Bautista, Ph.D., who visited UAMS and the Clinton School of Public Service last week. Hayes-Bautista, a distinguished professor of medicine from the University of California, Los Angeles, noted that Latinos are often incorrectly lumped with other minorities…
February 27, 2017
Public Invited to Hear Nationally Acclaimed U.S. Latino Leader, Scholar March 16
LITTLE ROCK — The public is invited to a free presentation and reception March 16 featuring University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Distinguished Professor of Medicine David E. Hayes-Bautista, Ph.D., who has spent decades studying and writing about the links between culture, behavior and health. His presentation, “Latino Leadership and the Cinco de Mayo in the…
January 30, 2015
UAMS Celebrates King’s Legacy
January 30, 2015 | In its commemoration of the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., UAMS looked to the performing talents of high school students and the words and remembrances of several employees to help honor and celebrate the civil rights leader.
July 17, 2014
Bank of America $22,000 Goes for Diversity Outreach
A $22,000 donation received this month from the Bank of America Charitable Foundation will support outreach programs at UAMS to help recruit and retain minority students to health care fields
March 14, 2014
UAMS Hosting Health Professions Camp for High School Students March 20-22
High school students are invited to attend the second annual free Spring Forward Health Profession Camp at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) that will expose them to various professions in health care.
January 17, 2014
Event Educates on LGBT Health Care Needs
The lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community is under more stress than any other population, Billy Thomas, M.D., vice chancellor for diversity and inclusion, told physicians, students and guests at a recent conference hosted by UAMS.
April 17, 2013
UAMS, Roundtable Partners Look to Expand Diversity in Health Care
April 17, 2013 | Arkansas’ health care workforce will more closely mirror its population and include more underrepresented minorities if a pilot project to be implemented in two Little Rock public schools by UAMS and its partners in the Public Health Leaders Roundtable is successful.
February 1, 2013
Billy Thomas, M.D., Renie Rule honored by Just Communities
Feb. 1, 2013 | UAMS physician Billy Thomas is continually working to get people to reach out to each other across cultural lines. On Jan. 31, Just Communities of Arkansas at its annual Gathering of Friends dinner reached out to give him a Father Joseph H. Biltz Award.