Asa Hutchinson


June 8, 2020

Day Camp Opens for UAMS Employees’ Children During Pandemic

Linda Haymes

Natasha Gayden, a paraprofessional with the Little Rock School District who usually works with preschool children, cares for Brianna and Tenley Lewis and other students at the UAMS Day Camp at Pulaski Heights Elementary and Middle Schools while the childrens' parents work at UAMS.

When COVID-19 arrived in Arkansas in March, Gov. Asa Hutchinson directed that public school buildings statewide be closed to help slow the spread of the contagious and potentially deadly disease. As Little Rock School District students and teachers vacated their buildings and moved to remote learning, physicians, nurses and other essential employees at UAMS scrambled to secure childcare.


March 11, 2019

Bill Signing Propels UAMS Cancer Institute’s Quest for NCI Designation

Susan Van Dusen

(From left) Arkansas Sen. Missy Irvin; UAMS Chancellor Cam Patterson, M.D., MBA; and Rep. Michelle Gray look on as Gov. Asa Hutchinson (seated) signs Senate Bill 151 in support of the UAMS Cancer Institute's quest for National Cancer Institute Designation.

With the stroke of a pen, Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson brought the UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute one step closer to its goal of achieving National Cancer Institute (NCI) Designation.


September 6, 2018

Gov. Asa Hutchinson Lends Support to UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute

Susan Van Dusen

Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute Interim Director Laura Hutchins, M.D., (center) leads Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson (right) and UAMS Chancellor Cam Patterson, M.D., MBA, on a tour of the Cancer Institute.

Sept. 6, 2018 | A 10-minute drive from the Arkansas State Capitol on Sept. 5 brought Gov. Asa Hutchinson face to face with the future of cancer research.


April 24, 2017

How a Governor’s Cup Win Got an Assist from the UAMS Translational Research Institute

David Robinson

Winners of the Governor’s Cup business plan competition are (l-r): team members Joshua Phillips, Tiffany Jarrett and Amanda Stolarz. They are joined by (back left) Rush Deacon, CEO, Arkansas Capital Corporation; Gov. Asa Hutchinson, Carol Reeves, team adviser, and Kevin Burns, chairman of the board, Arkansas Capital Corporation.

April 24, 2017 | UAMS’ Amanda Stolarz, Pharm.D., Ph.D., recently celebrated her team’s victory in the Donald W. Reynolds Governor’s Cup business plan competition. The team, Rejuvenics Technologies, won the $25,000 top prize with its idea for commercializing a drug-delivery system to reduce the harmful side effects of chemotherapy. Just under a year ago, the…


May 16, 2016

Hong-Yu Li, Ph.D., Named ARA Scholar, Awarded Adams Chair

Ben Boulden

May 16, 2016 | Hong-yu Li, Ph. D., a professor in the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) College of Pharmacy’s Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, was named an Arkansas Research Alliance (ARA) Scholar at a news conference today at the Governor’s Mansion. In a ceremony following the conference, he also was named to the Helen…


March 2, 2015

Celgene Gives $10 Million to Myeloma Institute

Ben Boulden

March 2, 2015 | The Myeloma Institute at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) has received a generous gift from Celgene Corporation to benefit patients with multiple myeloma through the creation of The Bart Barlogie Center for Molecular Diagnostics and the establishment of the Celgene Distinguished Endowed Chair in Molecular Therapeutics.


Celgene Gift to UAMS Myeloma Institute for Bart Barlogie Center for Molecular Diagnostics Advances the Course of Human Health for Patients with Multiple Myeloma

Ben Boulden

LITTLE ROCK –The Myeloma Institute at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) has received a generous gift from Celgene Corporation to benefit patients with multiple myeloma through the creation of The Bart Barlogie Center for Molecular Diagnostics and the establishment of the Celgene Distinguished Endowed Chair in Molecular Therapeutics.


February 4, 2015

Emergency Medicine Physician Greg Bledsoe Joins UAMS

Ben Boulden

LITTLE ROCK — Greg Bledsoe, M.D., M.P.H., has joined the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) and will be treating patients in the UAMS Emergency Department.