Dr. Bruce Murphy received two doctoral degrees and completed his internal medicine residency and cardiology fellowship at UAMS in the 1980s. An early introduction to heart disease and cardiac catheterization during his training catapulted him into a successful career devoted to diagnosing and treating cardiovascular disease and educating the next generation of cardiologists. Below, he […]
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Dr. Joseph Bates
We were saddened to learn of the death on Friday, September 29, of Joseph Bates, M.D., M.S., who served on our faculty and at the veterans’ hospital for over three decades, including twenty-one years as Vice Chair of the Department of Internal Medicine. Dr. Bates went on to make remarkable contributions as a leader at the Arkansas Department of Health and in the UAMS College of Public Health over the next twenty-five years.
Dr. Basheer Khassawneh
Dr. Basheer Khassawneh is an alumnus of multiple training programs in the Department of Internal Medicine. He is now the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at Jordan University of Science and Technology and still maintains an active clinical practice as a pulmonologist and sleep medicine physician at King Abdullah University Hospital in Jordan.
Dr. Jennifer Dillaha
To introduce our newest segment, Alumni Spotlight, how fitting that our first alumna is the Director of the Arkansas Department of Health, Dr. Jennifer Dillaha. Recently, our 2022-2023 Chief Resident, Dr. Ples Spradley, spoke with Dr. Dillaha about how UAMS contributed to her life’s work.
National IM Chief Residents Honor
Congratulations to Dr. Husam Salah, Internal Medicine Chief Resident, on receiving the 2023 American College of Physicians (ACP) Herbert S. Waxman Chief Resident Teaching Scholarship.
Holding Space for Hope and Reality
Sarah Harrington, M.D., medical director of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Palliative Care Program, is on a mission to help other physicians understand the delicate nature of communicating with patients facing serious illnesses.
Inspired Giving
Generous donors are an important reason we are able to achieve our mission to train the next generation of physicians for Arkansas – and it is often the outstanding clinical care, teaching and service of our faculty that inspires philanthropists to contribute to our college. A donor who wished to remain anonymous recently gave $100,000 […]
UAMS/Arkana Collaboration Identifies Novel Antibody Targets in Membranous Nephropathy
A collaboration between UAMS Nephrology and nephropathologists at Arkana Laboratories has greatly expanded our understanding of the causes of membranous nephropathy. Membranous nephropathy occurs when antibodies against podocyte proteins or circulating antigens are deposited along the glomerular basement membrane and lead to increased glomerular permeability to albumin and other proteins. Until recently, only a few of the […]
Nephrology Investigator Discovers Autoantibodies as Possible Cause of Long COVID-19
The global search for answers to long COVID-19 yielded a possible cause in 2021 by a research team in the UAMS Division of Nephrology. Their discovery of rogue antibodies that appear to be key players in long COVID-19 was published in The Public Library of Science ONE (PLOS ONE), drawing national attention and hope for those with the syndrome. […]
UAMS is First in Arkansas to Use New Technology to Remove Valve Infection, Debris Without Surgery
A cardiologist at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) is the first physician in Arkansas to use a new device to remove infectious vegetation from a woman’s heart valve in a 45-minute minimally invasive procedure.