The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences

UAMS researcher Melissa Zielinski has secured a $3.3 million grant to study PTSD treatment in 10 prisons across five states, involving more than 600 incarcerated individuals and 100 staff members. read more >

The five-year grant will support an outreach program focused on technology and data science in health care for high school students, teachers and the community, primarily in northwest Arkansas. read more >

Schwanda Flowers has been named interim dean of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences’ College of Pharmacy. read more >

University of Arkansas For Medical Sciences researcher Nickolas Zaller, Ph.D., receives a three-year, $350,000 fellowship for a new telehealth counseling pilot study. read more >

Dr. G. Richard Smith has been named chairman of the Department of Psychiatry in the College of Medicine at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences and director of UAMS’ Psychiatric Research Institute. read more >

The Baptist Health-University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Medical Education Program is recruiting residents for two residency programs in internal medicine and family medicine that are set to launch in July 2019. read more >

Pearl McElfish, Ph.D., has been promoted to vice chancellor of the Northwest Arkansas Regional Campus of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. read more >

The Department of Family & Preventive Medicine at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock has received a $3.29 million grant from the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention for a five-year project to reduce obesity, increase physical activity and improve nutrition in Arkansas, especially in the Delta. read more >

Over a 24-hour period beginning early Tuesday and ending late Wednesday, the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Foundation received more than $500,000 in response to the second annual UAMS Day of Giving fundraising campaign. read more >

UAMS gets a $1.27 million science education research grant to teach Little Rock School District students about STEM careers and cardiovascular health. read more >

The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences recently became the first and only hospital in Arkansas to be certified as a “comprehensive stroke center.” read more >

Winrock International, Arkansas Heart Hospital, the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences and BioVentures announced six startups that have been selected to participate in the first Health InnovatAR health care accelerator. read more >

The New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine at Arkansas State University has been awarded a $828,748 grant from the United States Department of Agriculture to develop a mobile medical clinic. read more >

Dr. Linda Worley, a nationally recognized psychiatrist who has worked at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences for more than 20 years, has been appointed associate dean of its new northwest Arkansas campus. read more >

The Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) will use a $1 million gift to advance research on triple negative breast cancer. read more >

A University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences professor has been awarded a $11.3 million federal grant to be distributed over five years that will fund the launch of a Center For Musculoskeletal Disease Research. read more >

The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences announced Wednesday that Noelle Danylchuk, a certified genetic counselor at its Northwest Regional Campus in Fayetteville, has been appointed chair of the Department of Genetic Counseling in the College of Health Professions at UAMS. read more >

Arkansas Children's Hospital names pediatric cardiothoracic surgeon Brian Reemtsen to lead its new Heart Institute. read more >

Tim Hill, vice chancellor for regional campuses at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, has been named the system's chief operating officer. read more >

The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences honored retiring Chancellor Dan Rahn on Tuesday by dedicating an education building on the north side of campus as the Daniel W. Rahn Interprofessional Education Building. read more >