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March 8, 2018

UAMS Jones Eye Institute Opens Walker Eye Surgical Simulation & Education Center

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UAMS celebrated the opening of the Walker Eye Surgical Simulation & Education Center on March 7. Pictured left to right: John P. Shock, M.D., JEI founding director; interim UAMS Chancellor Stephanie Gardner, Pharm..D, Ed.D.; Mandy Macke, Walker Foundation associate director; Johnny Mike Walker, Walker Foundation trustee and son of Willard and Pat Walker; Nancy Shock; Terri Westfall; and Christopher T. Westfall, M.D., JEI director, interim UAMS College of Medicine dean, and director of its Department of Ophthalmology.

March 8, 2018 | A portion of the ninth floor at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences’ (UAMS) Harvey & Bernice Jones Eye Institute has been transformed into an instructive, collaborative center where ophthalmology residents and UAMS students can learn surgical techniques and procedures outside the confines of an operating room, thanks to a…


February 15, 2018

Vietnam Vet, Now Ophthalmologist, Recounts Years as POW

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Hal Kushner, M.D., recounted his five and a half years as a prisoner of war during the Vietnam War to UAMS faculty, staff and students Feb. 7.

Feb. 15, 2018 | F. Harold Kushner was four months into his deployment as an Army flight surgeon in the Vietnam War when a driving rainstorm caused the helicopter he and three other soldiers occupied to crash into the side of a mountain in the middle of enemy territory. The pilot was killed on impact….


February 6, 2018

Lifetime Achievement, Chancellor’s Awards Given at All Boards Luncheon

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From left, Jo Ellen Ford and Lee Ronnel received the P.O. Hooper, M.D. Volunteer Leadership Award; John Shock, M.D. and Kent Westbrook, M.D. received the Harry P. Ward, M.D. Visionary Award.

The UAMS Foundation Fund Board recognized four honorees Feb. 1 at UAMS’ annual All Boards Luncheon with lifetime achievement awards in gratitude for their decades of service and philanthropy to UAMS.


September 27, 2016

Joseph Chacko, M.D., Invested in Sally McSpadden Boreham Chair in Ophthalmology

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Sept. 27 2016 | Joseph G. Chacko, M.D., professor of ophthalmology and neurology in the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) College of Medicine, was invested Sept. 26 in the Sally McSpadden Boreham Chair in Ophthalmology. Chacko has been the director of neuro-ophthalmology at the UAMS Harvey & Bernice Jones Eye Institute since 2005. An…


March 10, 2014

Jones Eye Institute Celebrates 20 Years

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The UAMS Harvey & Bernice Jones Eye Institute celebrated two decades of improving the health and vision of Arkansans through clinical care, education and research at a Feb. 28 anniversary event.