James C. Walker, MD, FACS, has joined Baptist Health Surgical and Specialty Clinic-Conway.
Walker is a board-certified general surgeon specializing in minimally invasive, robotic-assisted procedures and advanced endocrine surgery.
Beyond his surgical practice, Walker is recognized in trauma care. He served for seven years as the trauma medical director for CHI St. Vincent in Little Rock and has conducted numerous state surveys as an Arkansas State Trauma Site Physician Surveyor.
What began as separate campaigns by dozens of businesses and organizations combined to raise more than $5 million to support patients and families at Arkansas Children’s Hospital and Arkansas Children’s Northwest.
More than 30 Children’s Miracle Network partners across the region teamed up to donate $5,392,638.57 to Arkansas Children’s from their 2025 fundraising campaigns.
Using smart food locker technology is an innovative and promising approach to addressing food insecurity in Arkansas, according to researchers from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Institute for Community Health Innovation.
Food insecurity, defined as the limited or uncertain access to enough nutritious food, continues to affect communities across Arkansas at high rates. In 2023, nearly 19% of households experienced food insecurity, significantly exceeding the national average of 13.5%.
The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) received a $99,990 grant from the Arkansas Community Health and Education Foundation to UAMS College of Medicine’s Department of Physiology and Cell Biology.
The grant will support the department’s Bone Fracture Laboratory, which includes the purchase of a KUBTEC PARAMETER X‑ray System and software, delivering advanced high-resolution bone imaging to the musculoskeletal research community at UAMS.
Scientists at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) have discovered how to “reprogram” immune cells to help the eye heal after traumatic injuries and diseases such as diabetic retinopathy.
Findings from research led by Abdel Fouda, PhD, an associate professor in the UAMS College of Medicine’s Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, were recently published in two peer-reviewed scientific journals: Cell Death & Disease and Cell Death Discovery, both of which are part of Nature, the leading international weekly journal of science.
