By: Tess Vrbin - June 10, 2025 Arkansas Advocate Home | Arkansas Advocate
The leader of Arkansas’ largest healthcare system will step down after seven years for personal and medical reasons, the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences announced Tuesday in a news release.
Dr. Cam Patterson became the university’s chancellor in June 2018. By giving up his position as chancellor and as UAMS Health CEO, he will return to being a faculty member in the university’s cardiology department.
By: Sonny Albarado - June 11, 2025 Arkansas Advocate Home | Arkansas Advocate
Arkansas State Medicaid Director Janet Mann will become secretary of the Department of Human Services next month as Secretary Kristi Putnam returns to Kentucky, the governor’s office announced Wednesday.
Surgeons from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) have performed the first transplantation in Arkansas of interneuron cell therapy, called NRTX-1001, into a patient with non-lesional epilepsy as part of an FDA-approved clinical trial under way at multiple locations across the United States.
Four months later, the 33-year-old patient, who has had seizures daily since the age of 12, reports a significant reduction in all three types of seizures he has experienced for more than half his life.
By: Ainsley Platt - June 10, 2025 Published in Arkansas Advocate Home | Arkansas Advocate
Candy and sodas are coming off the menu for SNAP recipients in Arkansas, and rotisserie chickens are taking their place.
The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences’ Head Start program is hosting Destination Head Start: Enrollment and Hiring Event from 10 a.m.2 p.m. on Friday, June 27, at the Head Start Central Office at 8901 Kanis Road in Little Rock.
Staff will be available to answer questions about the Head Start program and provide tours of the center. Children’s activities and snacks will be provided.
