UAMS Set to Open North Central Area Health Education Center

JUNE 20, 2007 | North central Arkansas will have the state’s eighth University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Area Health Education Center (AHEC) starting July 1.

AHEC North Central will be the first AHEC located within two community colleges – the University of Arkansas Community College at Batesville and Arkansas State University Mountain Home. In addition to its partnership with the local colleges, it will work closely with the White River Medical Center in Batesville and the Baxter Regional Medical Center in Mountain Home.

“Like all of our AHECs, the goal for AHEC North Central is to help increase the number of health care providers and improve the quality of health care, especially in small and rural communities,” said Charles O. Cranford, D.D.S., vice chancellor for regional programs and executive director of the AHEC Program. “This AHEC center will extend UAMS programs into a part of the state that has been underserved.”

Batesville, about 75 miles southeast of Mountain Home, will serve as AHEC North Central’s primary administrative office, but the two locations will offer equal programs. The AHEC will serve 10 counties: Baxter, Fulton, Sharp, Independence, Stone, Cleburne, Van Buren, Searcy, Marion and Izard. Those counties fall between AHEC Northwest in Fayetteville and AHEC Northeast in Jonesboro.

“UAMS has had the privilege of operating an AHEC system that is nationally recognized for effectively delivering health care and health care education to areas of the state that need it most,” said UAMS Chancellor I. Dodd Wilson, M.D. “We’re excited about establishing our newest AHEC and developing new partnerships in north-central
Arkansas.”

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UAMS myeloma researcher John Shaughnessy Jr., Ph.D., Stephen Grand, Nancy Grand and Bart Barlogie, M.D., Ph.D., director of the Myeloma Institute.

UAMS Myeloma Institute Receives $4.5 Million to Study Disease Genetics

JUNE 14, 2007 | The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences’ Myeloma Institute for Research and Therapy has received $4.5 million from a San Francisco couple to establish a one-of-a kind laboratory for research into the genetic profile of multiple myeloma, a cancer of the bone marrow.

Stephen and Nancy Grand committed the $4.5 million for in-depth genomic and proteomic studies that are expected to clarify key disease mechanisms and details about myeloma that will be translated into clinical care. Genomics is the study of the genes in a living organism and their activities and interactions with each other and the environment. Proteomics is the study of the level and activity of an organism’s proteins

Stephen Grand has been treated at the Myeloma Institute since 2006. Last year, the Grands donated $300,000 to the Myeloma Institute toward development of ellipticine, a plant alkaloid as a new therapeutic agent.

The Nancy and Stephen Grand Laboratory for Myeloma Proteomics, headed by Ricky D. Edmondson, Ph.D., will be the first in the country with sophisticated mass spectrometry equipment dedicated to thorough analysis of the proteins produced by myeloma tumor cells and bone marrow cells. The new Myeloma Institute laboratory will be located in UAMS’ Arkansas Cancer Research Center.

New techniques applied to the Myeloma Institute’s vast archive of patient tissue samples will yield data that will enable researchers to more effectively use current treatments and develop interventions based on unique features of each patient’s disease.

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