Pope Moseley
August 12, 2016
Researcher to Lead New Center for Childhood Obesity Prevention
Aug. 12, 2016 | UAMS researchers at a new National Institutes of Health-funded center will be working hard to shrink a number — the 39 percent of the state’s children who are overweight or obese. Funded by a $9.4 million, five-year grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), UAMS researcher Judith Weber, Ph. D.,…
August 2, 2016
Hill at UAMS to See Trauma Care Operations
Aug. 2, 2016 | As U.S. Rep. French Hill walked into the UAMS Medical Center’s Emergency Department, a trauma patient arrived on a gurney after transport there by helicopter. Secured to the gurney and bandaged, the patient was wheeled into an examination room. Hill was there to witness firsthand the operation of the state’s only…
July 27, 2016
Arkansas Mutual Awards $10,000 Scholarship to UAMS Medical Student To Pursue Primary Care
July 27, 2016 | Mikaila Wilson Calcagni, of Fayetteville, has been awarded the Arkansas Mutual Medical Student Award, a scholarship for third-year medical students at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), who want to practice primary care in rural Arkansas.
May 19, 2016
Medical Students Awarded Year-Long Research Fellowships
May 19, 2016 | Two medical students at UAMS have been selected for prestigious, year-long research fellowships through an initiative of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) designed to help develop the nation’s next generation of physician-scientists. Thomas “Chad” Binns and Christopher Moutos, juniors in the UAMS College of Medicine, will take leave from their…
April 20, 2016
Med Students Discuss Family Medicine at ‘Evening with the Dean’
April 20, 2016 | Thirteen UAMS medical students met with Pope Moseley, M.D., dean of the College of Medicine, on April 6 at Trio’s Restaurant to discuss the importance of family medicine to UAMS and to the state of Arkansas. Faculty members from the UAMS Department of Family and Preventive Medicine were on hand to…
March 15, 2016
Internationally Known Physician-scientist to Chair Radiation Oncology at UAMS
March 15, 2016 | Fen Xia, M.D., Ph.D., M.S., an internationally recognized radiation oncologist and physician-scientist, is joining the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) as chair of the Department of Radiation Oncology in the College of Medicine. Xia, who will join the faculty on July 1, 2016, currently serves as a tenured professor…
December 28, 2015
UAMS Saw Transformative Growth in 2015
Dec. 28, 2015 | UAMS experienced a year of growth and transformation in 2015 that reached all areas of patient care, education and research. During this time of development, UAMS saw many changes in leadership. In January, Jeanne Heard, M.D., Ph.D., announced her retirement as provost effective June 30 after more forty years at UAMS….
December 4, 2015
UAMS Becomes Home to Cancer Imaging Archive for NCI
Dec. 4, 2015 | 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…
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….
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