From Left to Right: Chair and Professor Dr. Teresita Bellido; Education Coordinator, Sylvia Stewart; Program Coordinator, Heather Montgomery; Project Specialist, Jerviece Cox-Manning and Suresh Kannan, Assistant Chair.
Department News
New Employee
Jerviece Manning recently joined our department as the new Project Specialist. Jerviece comes from the Nursing Line Service department here at UAMS. Welcome, Jerviece!
New Employee
Heather Montgomery recently joined our department as the new Executive Assistant to Dr. Teresita Bellido, Professor and Chair of the Physiology and Cell Biology department. She comes from Gainesville, Fl. She was a previous employee at the Village at Gainesville as a Care Coordinator. Welcome, Heather!
Dr. Rosalia (Rosie) Simmen Receives UAMS College of Medicine Master Teacher Award
Congratulations to Dr. Rosie Simmen who received the 2023 COM Master Teacher Award at the COM Dean’s Honor Day ceremony on April 25, 2023. The prestigious award was presented to Dr. Simmen in recognition of her exemplary commitment to educational excellence in the classroom, her outstanding mentorship of graduate and medical students and early career […]
Dr. Jesús Delgado-Calle Receives 2023 Seeds of Science Award Supporting Promising Cancer Research
Congratulations, Dr. Jesús Delgado-Calle, for your new grant featured today in the UAMS announcement! Read the announcement on the UAMS News page.
Lawrence Cornett, Ph.D., Receives National Award for NIH IDeA Contributions
Congradulations to Dr. Larry Cornett on being awarded the prestigious W. Fred Taylor Ph.D. award in recognition of his extensive contributions to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Institutional Development (IDeA) Program.
2023 Women’s History Month
Dr. Teresita Bellido was highlighted on the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research website for the Women’s History Month. Congratulations Dr. Bellido!
Congratulations to Our Department-Affiliated UAMS Medical Students Matching to Residencies!
Congratulations to Caitlin Caperton and Garrett Graham!
Dr. Morello Featured in Physiological Society Video
Roy Morello, Ph.D., appears in a video shared by the Physiological Society. In the video, Dr. Morello discusses his research article that investigated the distinct type I collagen alterations that cause intrinsic lung and respiratory defects of variable severity.
UAMS Research Day
CBP Track Graduate Students (Farhana Sumya, Meghan Crimmins, Amrita Khakurel, Aric Anloague, Mohsin Ali, Haley Sabol) and Department Postdoctoral Fellows (Manish Adhikari, Japneet Kaur) participated at the UAMS Research Day event, March 7, 2023, by presenting their research work in poster formats.