Renee Joiner


June 12, 2018

Conference Highlights: A Decade of Telemedicine Achievements, Past, Present and Future

Ben Boulden

A panel of AR SAVES stroke survivors discuss their experiences during the Telestroke Conference in May in Hot Springs as a slide show behind them illustrates their stories and the history of the program.

June 12, 2018 | About 290 health care professionals gathered in Hot Springs for the annual Telestroke Conference held May 22-24, as the Arkansas Stroke Assistance through Virtual Emergency Support (AR SAVES) celebrated its 10th anniversary. Each year the UAMS-led partnership of AR SAVES organizes the conference and most of the attendees work at its…


May 16, 2018

Strike Out Stroke Nights Grow as AR SAVES Does

Ben Boulden

AR SAVES stroke survivor Dustin Martinez throws a symbolic strike against stroke as an Arkansas Travelers catcher waits to catch the ball at Strike Out Stroke Night at Dickey-Stephens Park.

May 16, 2018 | As AR SAVES (Arkansas Stroke Assistance through Virtual Emergency Support) marks its 10th year of operation, the total number of stroke survivors and their families helped by the program expands too, bringing more and more of them to the ballpark for Strike Out Stroke nights. It was the eighth year AR…


March 20, 2018

Northwest Arkansas Naturals to Host ‘Strike Out Stroke Night’ April 5

Ben Boulden

March 20, 2018 | To help Arkansans learn how to survive stroke, the Northwest Arkansas Naturals baseball team is making its April 5 opening game of the 2018 season “Strike Out Stroke Night” in partnership with the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS)-led statewide stroke program, AR SAVES. A helicopter will bring Washington Regional…


June 29, 2017

Strike Out Stroke Nights Add Third Baseball Game in 2017

Ben Boulden

June 29, 2017 | Strike Out Stroke became a three-game series in 2017, adding University of Arkansas at Little Rock Trojans baseball to the roster alongside game nights at Arvest Park in Springdale in April and at Dickey-Stephens Park in North Little Rock in June. It was the seventh year Arkansas Stroke Assistance through Virtual Emergency…


April 13, 2017

Arkansas Travelers to Host ‘Strike Out Stroke Night’ May 4

Ben Boulden

April 13, 2017 | To help Arkansans learn how to survive stroke, the Arkansas Travelers are making May 4 “Strike Out Stroke Night” in partnership with AR SAVES, the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS)-led statewide stroke program. A helicopter will bring Sanjeeva Reddy Onteddu, M.D., AR SAVES medical director, to North Little Rock’s Dickey-Stephens…


March 16, 2017

Northwest Arkansas Naturals to Host ‘Strike Out Stroke Night’ April 6

Ben Boulden

March 16, 2017 | To help Arkansans learn how to survive stroke, the Northwest Arkansas Naturals baseball team is making its April 6 opening game of the 2017 season “Strike Out Stroke Night” in partnership with the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS)-led statewide stroke program, AR SAVES. A helicopter will bring Washington Regional Medical…


May 18, 2016

Mega Brain Debuts at Strike Out Stroke Nights

Ben Boulden

Mega Brain Debuts at Strike Out Stroke Nights

May 18, 2016 | The 5-year-old boy’s eyes were wide with wonder outside busy Dickey-Stephens Park in North Little Rock as he spied not his baseball hero but the giant, inflatable Mega Brain. Mega Brain was there May 5 for Strike Out Stroke night, an event to raise public awareness about stroke that is organized…


May 12, 2016

Stroke Program Helps Lower Arkansas to Sixth from First in Stroke Deaths

Ben Boulden

Stroke Program Helps Lower Arkansas to Sixth from First in Stroke Deaths

May 12, 2016 | Arkansas recently fell to sixth in the nation in the number of stroke deaths per capita after many years in first place, a huge improvement that health officials credit in part to a statewide telemedicine program of stroke education and treatment. The program — Arkansas Stroke Assistance through Virtual Emergency Support, or…


April 13, 2016

Arkansas Travelers to Host ‘Strike Out Stroke Night’ May 5

Ben Boulden

LITTLE ROCK — To help Arkansans learn how to survive stroke, the Arkansas Travelers are making May 5 “Strike Out Stroke Night” in partnership with AR SAVES, the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS)-led statewide stroke program. A helicopter will bring Sanjeeva Reddy Onteddu, M.D., AR SAVES medical director, to North Little Rock’s Dickey-Stephens…


April 5, 2016

UAMS Names Renee Joiner Director of Arkansas SAVES Stroke Telemedicine Program

Ben Boulden

LITTLE ROCK — Renee Joiner has been named by the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) as director of the Arkansas Stroke Awareness and Virtual Emergency Support (AR SAVES) program. Joiner will oversee the operations of AR SAVES, which uses a high-speed video communications system to help provide immediate, life-saving treatments to stroke patients…



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