Fred Prior
June 19, 2019
New UAMS Biomedical Informatics Program Has First Graduate
The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) made history this spring with its first Master of Science graduate in biomedical informatics/translational bioinformatics. Biomedical informatics professionals use computational tools to learn from medical and public health information to improve human health. As one of the program’s first enrollees, Dina Elsayed was aware she would be…
November 3, 2017
UAMS Nabs Health Literacy Award at National Conference
Nov. 3, 2017 | The UAMS Center for Health Literacy won Best Poster in Health Literacy recently at the International Conference on Communication in Healthcare and Health Literacy Annual Research Conference held Oct. 8-11 in Baltimore. The conference was focused on both health care communication and health literacy, meaning the skills to find, understand and…
October 31, 2017
Cancer Imaging Archive Housed at UAMS Bolstered by $8.3 Million NCI Grant
LITTLE ROCK – The National Cancer Institute (NCI) has awarded an $8.3 million grant to the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) for expansion and enhancement of an archive containing freely accessible cancer medical images and data. The Cancer Imaging Archive (TCIA) is a free online service that hosts a large collection of cancer-related…
June 5, 2017
New Biomedical Informatics Degrees at UAMS to Provide Driving Force for Personalized Medicine
LITTLE ROCK — Three new degrees and a certificate in biomedical informatics to help professionals assess and manage large sets of medical and public health information will soon be offered at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS). The Arkansas Department of Higher Education recently approved the three graduate degrees — Doctorate of Philosophy,…
February 24, 2017
David W. Ussery, Ph.D., Invested in Inaugural Helen Adams & Arkansas Research Alliance Endowed Chair in Bioinformatics
Feb. 24, 2017 | David W. Ussery, Ph.D., director of the Arkansas Center for Genomic Epidemiology & Medicine at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), was invested Feb. 21 as the inaugural recipient of the Helen Adams & Arkansas Research Alliance (ARA) Endowed Chair in Biomedical Informatics. Ussery, who has worked with bacterial genomics since…
December 4, 2015
UAMS Becomes Home to Cancer Imaging Archive for National Cancer Institute
LITTLE ROCK – The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) has become home to The Cancer Imaging Archive of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) with the transfer to UAMS of more than 40 terabytes of data from the archive’s former home at Washington University in St. Louis. “Through the archive, UAMS has important linkages…
August 25, 2015
Fred Prior, Ph.D., Named Inaugural Chair of the UAMS Department of Biomedical Informatics
LITTLE ROCK — Fred Prior, Ph.D, has been named the inaugural chair of the Department of Biomedical Informatics in the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) College of Medicine, effective Oct. 1. The newly established department develops computational tools to assess and manage medical and public health information for patient care and research programs….