By Amy Widner It doesn’t take long for many young girls to be exposed to messages about what girls “can” and “cannot” do. Thankfully, Heather Pinckard-Dover never got the memo. She is the first female neurosurgeon to complete a residency at UAMS, Arkansas’ only academic health sciences center. “From the time I was little, my […]
Grant Gives UAMS Physician-Scientist Access to Gene Analysis Software
UAMS Researches Find Insurance Status Affects Treatment, Outcomes in Child Brain Injuries
UAMS First in Arkansas to Use ExcelsiusGPS for Robot-Assisted Spinal Surgery
Ebonye Green Champions Neuroscience Nurses
Dr. Erika Petersen Receives Residency Educator Award
Residency Educator Award – Program Director Erika Petersen, M.D., Neurosurgery Residency Professor(effective 7-1-20), Department of Neurosurgery Petersen has made strides in the Neurosurgery Residency Program since becoming program director in 2015. Her work has enhanced the selection process for identifying the best candidates for the residency, strengthened the learning environment and increased residents’ participation in […]
Car Crash Leads to Discovery of Brain Tumor, Now in Remission
By Katrina Dupins Feb. 11, 2020 | Matthew Koshinski believes the car crash he was in two years ago saved his life. On the morning of Sept. 11, 2018, he wasn’t feeling his best. But the 22-year-old supervisor at UPS went in to work anyway. “I didn’t think much of it. I just thought I’d push […]
UAMS Scientists Awarded Grants for Cancer Research
By Linda Haymes Newly awarded grants are advancing research efforts at the UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute. Three Seeds of Science small grant awards of $50,000 each were presented March 5 to UAMS cancer researchers at “The Doctor is in” event hosted by the Envoys volunteer advocacy group. The event included a research poster […]
Robot-assisted Spine Surgery at UAMS is First in State
UAMS is the first hospital in the state of Arkansas to operate with the Excelsius robot. Dr. Noojan Kazemi, Associate Professor of Neurosurgery, said the robot helps improve accuracy and reduce the invasiveness of spinal surgery. “In minimizing our incisions and dissection pathway, we are able to allow faster recovery time and hopefully better and […]
Tomoko Tanaka, M.D., Joins Faculty
Tomoko Tanaka, M.D., has joined the Department of Neurosurgery as an associate professor in the Division of Pediatric Neurosurgery. Dr. Tanaka earned her medical degree at Kitasato University School of Medicine in Japan, graduating as valedictorian. She completed a neurosurgery residency at Emory University in Atlanta and a pediatric neurosurgery fellowship at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital […]