UAMS College of Medicine

09/22/2026

🙌🙌🙌 BIG Congratulations to Department of Pediatrics Chair, Dr. Bill Steinbach, and the entire pediatrics team on this incredible achievement.

09/21/2026

Grab an apron, alumni. 🔪🥕

Culinary Night is back — a hands-on evening where UAMS grads cook together, learn a little culinary medicine, and eat well. No skills required, just show up hungry.

📅 Thurs, Nov. 5 | 5:30 p.m.
📍 UAMS Donald W. Reynolds Institute on Aging Culinary Kitchen

Space is limited. Register at give.uams.edu/culinary 🍽️

09/20/2026

Follow our College of Medicine students as they show us a Day in the Life of an M2, M3 and M4.

09/17/2026

The latest episode of the UAMS College of Medicine Residency Prep Podcast has more great advice about crafting personal statements to stand out!

This is key advice at any stage of applying to programs in medical education — med school, visiting programs, residency, and beyond.

Current students Andria Carter and Rylie Mangold lead the way in this episode. Shoutout to Dr. Karen Dickinson and Dr. Karina Clemmons for their help with the project.

🔗 Check out the Residency Prep Podcast on your favorite podcasting platform for the latest episodes — 15, 16, and 17 are all about personal statements and telling your story!

➡️uamsresidencyprep.podbean.com

09/15/2026

The Lifestyle Medicine Student Interest Group recently hosted a Yoga in the Park session, teaming up with the Psychiatry Interest Group.

Dr. Brigette Serfaty, College of Pharmacy Associate Professor and faculty with the UAMS Mindfulness Program, led the event, which focused on mindful movement and techniques for reducing stress.

Thank you to Dr. Serfaty and all the organizers! UAMS Lifestyle Medicine IG UAMS Psychiatry Interest Group

09/15/2026

Congratulations to our MD/PhD students who were celebrated last week at the UAMS Graduate School Research Induction Ceremony!

This ceremony signifies that these students have completed their foundational courses and passed their qualifying exams. Now they will enter a period dedicated entirely to their PhD dissertation research.

Big congrats to:

Milla Reddick
Cole Bolen
Mattie Nester
Amie Brint

As MD/PhD students, they have already completed two years of med school before reaching this stage of their PhD journey. After completing their dissertations, they will return to the MD program to complete their third and fourth years of med school. The whole process takes about 6-7 years.

We celebrate their dedication and their futures as clinicians-scientists! 🥳🥳🥳

09/04/2026

Our student interest groups have been busy this first month of school with first meetings, welcoming the freshmen, and holding elections for executive officers.

The interest groups are a huge way that our students:
✅ find peer support
✅ network with upperclassmen, residents, fellows and faculty
✅ give back to the campus community (and beyond)
✅ serve in leadership roles
✅ learn about career options
✅ have fun!

Pictured are the Rural Medicine Student Leadership Association (UAMS RMSLA ), the Advocacy Interest Group (Advocacy Interest Group @ UAMS ), Medical Humanities Interest Group movie night, and crafts with the American Medical Women’s Association (UAMS AMWA).

09/04/2026

We are beyond grateful to Jan Shorey, M.D., former associate provost for faculty, and Lindsay McFaddin Thomas for pledging an $1 million estate gift to establish a full-tuition scholarship for a College of Medicine student.

This four-year scholarship will be awarded each year to an Arkansas resident.

Thank you so much for investing in the future of medicine!

09/01/2026

🎉 Congrats, Dr. Craig Forrest!

We're celebrating Craig Forrest, Ph.D., professor in the College of Medicine's Department of Microbiology and Immunology, on a new five-year, $2.3 million NIH grant! 🧬

Dr. Forrest and co-investigator Jason Stumhofer, Ph.D., will study how coinfection with a gammaherpesvirus and the malaria parasite can lead to endemic Burkitt lymphoma — an aggressive cancer that mainly affects children. It's Dr. Forrest's fifth active NIH grant studying these viruses.

Congratulations to Dr. Forrest and the whole team! 👏

Read more: https://news.uams.edu/2026/08/25/uams-cancer-institute-receives-2-3-million-nih-grant-to-study-pathogens-that-lead-to-burkitt-lymphoma/

A five-year National Institutes of Health grant over $2.3 million will fund researchers at the Winthrop P Rockefeller Cancer Institute studying how being infected with a gammaherpesvirus (GHV) and malaria parasite at the same time can lead to endemic Burkitt lymphoma (eBL).

08/31/2026

Abernathy House held a reception over the weekend to welcome the new freshmen and introduce them to the upperclassmen.

Arkansas Surgeon General Kay Chandler, M.D., was kind enough to speak. The event was held on the 12th Floor of the Jack Stephens Spine Institute.

Josh Ellis, M.D., pictured with Dr. Chandler, is the faculty advisor and mentor for Abernathy House, along with Shari Gaudette, Ph.D., and Tiffany Huitt, Ph.D. Dianne McVinney provides staff support.

The UAMS COM uses the academic house system to provide small mentored learning communities for social and academic support. Each house has about 20 students from each class. Upperclassmen also help the younger students adjust to each phase of med school.

Thank you to Dr. Ellis for hosting such a lovely event! And thank you for Dr. Chandler for speaking. Thanks as well to Dianne and the many behind-the-scenes helpers who made it a success.