
UAMS Gets $1.5M to Study Non-Opioid Pain Management
A $1.5 million grant will allow the UAMS Department of Emergency Medicine to change how it treats pain and trains new doctors. read more >
A $1.5 million grant will allow the UAMS Department of Emergency Medicine to change how it treats pain and trains new doctors. read more >
Media and communications professional Amanda Hoelzeman has joined The Peacock Group of Little Rock as the strategic communications firm’s public relations manager. read more >
A consortium of groups, including entities tied to the Murphy family, have formed a nonprofit to buy the 166-bed Medical Center of South Arkansas of El Dorado. read more >
Lyon College will partner with UAMS to “identify opportunities for joint teaching, research, graduate education and professional development.” read more >
Dr. Lena Awar is an interventional cardiologist and Dr. Lee Cranfill is an internal medicine specialist. read more >
Dr. Marc Denton Stam joins the cardiothoracic and vascular surgery center, and Dakota Young will provide care for Stam's patients. read more >
recently served as associate artistic director and founding company member at Shake on the Lake Theatre Company of New York. read more >
He joins UAM from Georgia Southern University. read more >
Dr. Kalaivani Sivakumar will lead the heart restoration, mechanical circulatory support and cardiac transplant program, while Dr. Stacy Zimmerman has been named regional centers designated institutional official. read more >
Lyon College, a small school with big ambitions, has more work to do to get its plans off the ground. But it presents an exciting new vision for Little Rock and health care in Arkansas. read more >
Shanna Richardson has been hired as CEO of the Quapaw Area Council Boy Scouts of America in Little Rock. read more >
Nikki Laird has been promoted to associate vice chancellor for student success and dean of students at Henderson State University in Arkadelphia. read more >
Neoni Yustana has been hired at Baptist Health Cancer Center-Fort Smith. read more >
Dr. Kylie Rhodes has been hired as a family practice physician at Washington Regional Fayetteville Family Clinic. read more >
Matthew Stripling has been hired as the foundation director at Unity Health Hospital in Searcy. read more >
Mohamed O. Elasri has been named associate vice chancellor for research at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock. read more >
Arkansas Surgical Hospital in North Little Rock names Emily Cobb as its director of patient care services and Sarah Loftin as its chief nursing officer. read more >
Rex Jones says he wants to learn from executives in the ARHP network what the nonprofit can do for them. read more >
The Arkansas Pharmacists Association has hired Marlene Battle as health equity coordinator, a new role created to address health disparities in Arkansas that have been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. read more >
Edafio of Rogers has announced two promotions and one executive addition. read more >