Chancellor Dan Rahn, M.D., awarded 12 UAMS programs a total of $360,000 at the annual Chancellor’s Circle Grant Awards ceremony and reception March 9. This year’s awards again set a record for the most funds distributed, said Rahn. Each of the 12 programs received a $30,000 grant. Members of the Chancellor’s Circle provide roughly $400,000 […]
Department News
David W. Ussery, Ph.D., Invested in Inaugural Helen Adams & Arkansas Research Alliance Endowed Chair in Bioinformatics
David W. Ussery, Ph.D., director of the Arkansas Center for Genomic and Epidemiology and Medicine at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), was invested Feb. 21 as the inaugural recipient of the Helen Adams & Arkansas Research Alliance (ARA) Endowed Chair in Biomedical Informatics. Ussery, who has worked with bacterial genomics since 1995, joined […]
Clinical Informatics Board Prep Course
Course Description This is a multi-module, lecture series with new modules available each week. This Board prep provides exposure to topics on the clinical informatics subspeciality board examination. Lectures highlight relevant informatics and information science principles and methodology. Course Objectives Upon successful completion of this course, the student is able to: Discuss advances in medical research and […]
Showcase Highlights Power of Biomedical Informatics
Researchers from all disciplines can put the power of biomedical informatics to work for them, and the results of that collaborative spirit were on display at a recent reception at UAMS. Fourteen research projects were featured at the Showcase of Medical Discoveries: Biomedical Informatics Research, held Sept. 21 at the UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer […]
UAMS Becomes Home to Cancer Imaging Archive for NCI
The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) has become home to The Cancer Imaging Archive of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) with the transfer to UAMS of more than 40 terabytes of data from the archive’s former home at Washington University in St. Louis. “Through the archive, UAMS has important linkages to all […]
Fred Prior, Ph.D, named inaugural chair of the Department of Biomedical Informatics
LITTLE ROCK — Fred Prior, Ph.D, has been named the inaugural chair of the Department of Biomedical Informatics in the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) College of Medicine, effective Oct. 1. The newly established department develops computational tools to assess and manage medical and public health information for patient care and research programs. […]