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Internal Medicine
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The list of
Best Doctors in
America
for 2009 includes more than 500 distinguished Arkansas physicians
statewide of which more than 250 are on the faculty at UAMS.
View our
Best Doctors in America List
from the Department of Internal
Medicine. |
Stavros Manolagas, MD, PhD (Endocrinology
and Metabolism)
Dr. Manolagas, Division Director of
Endocrinology, accepted a $2,500 donation from the Fraternal Order of
Eagles. The donation is to be used for diabetes research.
Read more... |
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 David
Rutlen, MD (Cardiovascular Medicine)
Dr. Rutlen, Division Director of Cardiovascular Medicine, is
featured in the Spring/Summer issue of the COM Magazine. Also
featured are division faculty members Rajesh Sachdeva MD, Barry
Uretsky MD, Ibrahim Fahdi MD, and Behzad Molavi MD.
Read more... |
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 Charles O'Brien, PhD (Endocrinology and Metabolism)
Dr. O'Brien was selected to serve as member of the Skeletal Biology
Development and Disease Study Section, Center for Scientific Review
at NIH. Term begins July 1, 2009 to June 30, 2013. |
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 Robert
Safirstein, MD (Nephrology)
Dr. Safirstein
was selected to serve on the Board of Consulting Editors of the
Journal of Clinical Investigation. His is a two-year renewable term
beginning April 2009. |
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Barry Uretsky MD and Joe Bissett MD (Cardiovascular Medicine)
Drs. Uretsky and Bissett are responsible for a $46,000 award from the Society
for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions. The award is to benefit
the cardiovascular interventional fellowship
program, and in particular,
to help fund research by the fellows
 and their individual faculty mentors.
Criteria considered for the award included evaluation of the quality of
clinical training and faculty, number and breadth of cases, research,
and time and effort of faculty. |
Three UAMS programs are featured in the latest
U.S. News & World Report
“America’s
Best Graduate Schools,” (College of
Medicine Geriatrics and Primary Care Programs,
College of Nursing Masters
Program).
The UAMS College of Medicine Primary Care
Program includes family medicine,
internal medicine and pediatrics, and ranked 35th among top
medical schools in the nation, up 10 places from last year. UAMS tied with
Mayo
Medical
School
in
Minnesota,
U
of
California
–
San Diego,
U
of
Maryland,
U
of
Virginia and
Wake
Forest
U
in
North Carolina.
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University of Arkansas for
Medical Sciences
College of Medicine
Department of Internal Medicine,
Slot 832
4301 W. Markham
Little Rock, AR 72205
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