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$300,000 Supplemental Award Aims to Take Bone Research to Pilot Drug

Maria Almeida, Ph.D., is the first researcher at UAMS to receive supplemental funding through the NIAMS STAR program and hopes it will not only take her work to the next level but show other investigators a roadmap for their careers. Almeida, an associate professor in the Department of Internal Medicine-Endocrinology in the UAMS College of Medicine, […]

Internal Medicine Chair James Marsh, M.D., Honored by American Heart Association

James D. Marsh, M.D. – chairman of the Department of Internal Medicine in the College of Medicine at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) – has been honored by the American Heart Association for his three-decade career fighting cardiovascular disease and stroke. Marsh received the Worthen-Cornett Award on March 10 at the Little […]

NIH Awards $11.3 Million to Establish Bone Research Center at UAMS

University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Professor Charles O’Brien, Ph.D., has been awarded $11.3 million in federal funds over 5 years to launch the Center For Musculoskeletal Disease Research. The Centers of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE) grant comes from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences branch of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). […]

UAMS Pulmonologist Runs Half Marathon in Memory of Patient

Completing the Little Rock Half Marathon is more than an athletic feat for Nikhil Meena, M.D.; it is a symbolic gesture as well. For the second year in a row, the UAMS interventional pulmonologist wore two numbers on the 13.1-mile course: one for himself and one in memory of a patient. “I want to let […]

Howard Lane Lovett Jr., M.D., joins the Division of Hospital Medicine

Howard Lane Lovett Jr., M.D., has joined the Department of Internal Medicine as an Assistant Professor in the Division of Hospital Medicine. Dr. Lovett received his medical degree from the College of Medicine in 2014 and completed his internal medicine residency at UAMS in December.

Sushma Bhusal, M.D., and Aparna Sharma, M.D., Join UAMS as Transplant Nephrologists

UAMS is the only center in Arkansas that offers adult liver and kidney — and soon pancreas — transplantation. Bhusal and Sharma have advanced, specialized training in the needs of kidney and pancreas transplant patients. Each also serve as assistant professors in the UAMS College of Medicine’s Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Nephrology. Read […]