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September 21, 2018

UAMS Physician Saves Teen from Effects of Rare Stroke

Ben Boulden

Dra Bishop, 16, prepares to shoot a free throw. Bishop had a stroke in late May, but after treatment from UAMS physician Martin Radvany, M.D., he is almost fully recovered.

Early on May 27, UAMS neuroradiologist Martin Radvany, M.D., was working to make sure that a joke about stroke from teenager Dra Bishop was not the last joke Dra made. Bishop’s stroke was not a laughing matter. Dra, 16, a Bentonville High School and Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) basketball player, was feeling a little sluggish…


July 31, 2018

Kelly-Ann Patrice, M.D., Joins UAMS as Stroke Specialist

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Portrait of Dr. Patrice

July 31, 2018 | Kelly-Ann Patrice, M.D., has joined the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) as a neurologist specializing in stroke care. Patrice treats emergency stroke patients in the UAMS Medical Center and provides post-stroke recovery care in the Jackson T. Stephens Spine & Neurosciences Institute’s Neurology Clinic. Patrice also treats patients with cerebral…


June 16, 2017

Medical Student Survives Stroke Thanks to Classmates’ Quick Reaction

Katrina Dupins

June 15, 2017 | Justin Treas is a busy man. The 29-year-old has a Ph.D. in environmental toxicology and has worked in cancer research. He’s married with three children and just earned his medical degree from the UAMS College of Medicine. On March 28, 2017, Treas had a stroke that his doctors believe would have…


June 15, 2017

Medical Student Survives Stroke Thanks to Classmates’ Quick Reaction

Katrina Dupins

June 15, 2017 | Justin Treas is a busy man. The 29-year-old has a Ph.D. in environmental toxicology and has worked in cancer research. He’s married with three children and just earned his medical degree from the UAMS College of Medicine. On March 28, 2017, Treas had a stroke that his doctors believe would have…


May 4, 2017

With Time on His Side, NLR Man Survives Stroke

Katrina Dupins

May 4, 2017 | If his family had waited just half an hour more, the prognosis for 91-year-old Wayne Harris would not have been promising. One Saturday afternoon in early March, Cathy Harris was sorting clothes while her husband of 35 years was finishing a meal. “I could see him at the table and he…


December 21, 2016

Jacksonville Woman Survives Stroke Thanks to Quick Response

Katrina Dupins

Dec. 21, 2016 | Vivian and Hubert Smith are known to their neighbors as the love birds. Married for 66 years, the Jacksonville couple enjoy each other’s company and spend their days conversing, reading and participating in group activities with their friends at their apartment complex. But the morning of Halloween 2016 proved to be…


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 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…


March 2, 2016

Stroke Patient Feels ‘Wonderful’ After Clot Treatments

Katrina Dupins

March 2, 2016 | It began like any other Sunday for the Lemasters of Sherwood. Mary Lemaster and her husband, James, had participated in the Sunday School class at Baring Cross Baptist Church on Feb. 7, 2016, and were getting ready to attend morning worship in the sanctuary when Mary went to the restroom. “It…



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