UAMS Receives $665,000 to Study Depression and Drug Abuse

UAMS Receives $665,000 to Study Depression and Drug Abuse UAMS has received a five-year grant of $665,000 from the National Institute on Drug Abuse to study best practices for treating depression in substance abusers.
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UAMS Scientist Receives $272,000 Grant for Tailoring Cancer Treatments with Laser Test UAMS Scientist Receives $272,000 Grant for Tailoring Cancer Treatments with Laser Test UAMS Scientist Receives $272,000 Grant for Tailoring Cancer Treatments with Laser Test UAMS Scientist Receives $272,000 Grant for Tailoring Cancer Treatments with Laser Test Photo Album: Stephens Institute Was a Highlight of Medicine Alumni Reunion Photo Album: Stephens Institute Was a Highlight of Medicine Alumni Reunion Kids First in Fort Smith Celebrated Fourth in Style Kids First in Fort Smith Celebrated Fourth in Style Class of 1948 Dedicates Endowment to Excellence in Education Class of 1948 Dedicates Endowment to Excellence in Education Pharmacy Professor Elected to American College of Clinical Pharmacy Pharmacy Professor Elected to American College of Clinical Pharmacy Pharmaceutical Scientists, Graduate Students Meet at UAMS Pharmaceutical Scientists, Graduate Students Meet at UAMS Stephanie Gardner, Pharm.D., Ed.D., Is Interim Dean of College of Pharmacy Stephanie Gardner, Pharm.D., Ed.D., Is Interim Dean of College of Pharmacy New COPH Survey Research Expert Eager to Develop New Ways of Measuring Public Health New COPH Survey Research Expert Eager to Develop New Ways of Measuring Public Health Ready, Set, Go! UAMS, KATV Launch Get Healthy Arkansas™ UAMS, KATV Launch Get Healthy Arkansas™ UAMS Expands Video Conferences To Improve Cancer Care in South Arkansas UAMS Expands Video Conferences To Improve Cancer Care in South Arkansas, LITTLE ROCK – The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) is expanding its video conference network in six counties in south Arkansas to link more local physicians with cancer experts here. UAMS has received a grant from the Office for the Advancement of Telehealth in the Health Resources Services Administration, a division of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, to expand oncology education and direct patient consultation via interactive video in Bradley, Calhoun, Ouachita, Polk, Hempstead, and Union Counties. The grant of $736,362 is for three years. Local hospitals will contribute another $408,000 to the project. “There are very few oncology specialists in south Arkansas,” said Ann Bailey Bynum, Ed.D., director of the UAMS Rural Hospital Program. “They have only two medical oncologists and one radiation oncologist serving a rural population of almost 200,000. We want to decrease health care provider isolation in those areas. We think this will increase communication and provide a greater integration of services.” Living conditions in the counties covered by the grant are some of Arkansas’ worst. They have a disproportionate number of low-income, elderly, and minority residents and suffer some of the highest cancer death rates in the state. In the two-year period that ended in June 2002, 523 cancer patients were referred to the Arkansas Cancer Research Center (ACRC) at UAMS from the six counties. “These are usually some of the most challenging and difficult cases to treat,” Bynum said. Expansion of the interactive video network will allow highly trained cancer specialists at ACRC to provide public education in a long-distance classroom-like setting. In addition they can consult directly with patients and their local physicians, make diagnoses, and conduct follow-up visits. Thanks to interactive video, patients will be exposed to the kind of multi-disciplinary team approach that is rarely available in their hometown clinics and physician offices. UAMS will expand interactive video programming already available at Bradley County Medical Center in Warren, Mena Medical Center, Ouachita County Medical Center in Camden, and the UAMS South Arkansas Area Health Education Center in El Dorado. It also will install new videoconferencing equipment at the Community Health Center in Hampton, the Migrant Health Center in Hope, the Medical Center of South Arkansas in El Dorado, and the Arkansas Cancer Research Center (ACRC) at UAMS. New interactive video equipment, including telemicroscopes, electronic stethoscopes, and oral exam cameras, is now being installed in the various locations. Transmission equipment will soon be set up at ACRC. The grant will also pay the salary of a full-time coordinator, and partially fund the salaries of nine other employees, including six site coordinators, one in each county. Since 1991, UAMS has been sharing i Two Breast Cancer Activists with UAMS Ties Are National “Yoplait Champions” Two Breast Cancer Activists with UAMS Ties Are National “Yoplait Champions” Friends of the College of Public Health Get Organized Friends of the College of Public Health Get Organized Rep. Gary Biggs to Host Hearing on Public Health Nov. 3 Rep. Gary Biggs to Host Hearing on Public Health Nov. 3 Tobacco Funds Help Arkansas Aging Initiative PINE BLUFF – Thanks in part to the state’s tobacco settlement funds, Arkansas’ fifth satellite center for geriatric education and clinical care, the South Central Center on Aging, opened here today. The Arkansas Aging Initiative, a program of the Donald W. Reynolds Center on Aging at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), established the center in partnership with Jefferson Regional Medical Center (JRMC) and the UAMS Area Health Education Center (AHEC) Pine Bluff. The initiative is a component of the state’s program to spend tobacco settlement funds on health promotion. The center is in the I-530 Medical Mall on Dusty Lake Drive. Dale Terrell, M.D., a geriatrician, is director of the center, which will provide comprehensive health education, patient care and coordination of services by an interdisciplinary team including a geriatrician, advanced practice nurses, physical and occupational therapists, pharmacists, nutritionists, and social workers. The center provides primary and consultation services, and may provide specialty clinics and rehabilitation services for patients as needed. The center accepts patients who are 65 and older. A referral is not necessary in most cases. Theresa Horton, M.N.Sc, APN, is education director. The center also will train caregivers to care for senior citizens in their homes, will offer community education about aging and associated health problems, and will maintain a resource library for patients and their families. The center’s steering committee includes Tamer Alsebai, M.D., William Nuckolls, M.D., Freeman Montaque, M.D., James Lindsey, M.D., H. Marks Attwood, M.D., Dale Terrell, M.D., Robert Atkinson, Mark Winslow, Julie Bridgforth, Wilbur West, Larnell Davis, Diann Williams, M.S.N., R.N., Betty Bradshaw, J. Maples, Jr., R.N. and Theresa Horton, M.N.Sc., APN, Pine Bluff, and Claudia Beverly, Ph.D., R.N., FAAN, Ronni Chernoff, Ph.D., R.D., Robin McAtee, B.S.N., MHSA and Gwynn Davis, R.N., M.N.Sc. The goal of the tobacco-funded Arkansas Aging Initiative is to ensure that all older Arkansans have appropriate health care within 50 miles of their homes. UAMS received an allocation from the state’s share of the 1998 nationwide tobacco settlement to establish seven satellites of the Donald W. Reynolds Center on Aging, a comprehensive center for patient care, research on aging, and advanced training of physicians and other health care professionals who specialize in geriatrics, the medical specialty devoted to elderly patients. In each community, the initiative has collaborated with one or more local health care agencies to create the satellite. Working with local partners, UAMS has established centers in Springdale, El Dorado, Jonesboro and Texarkana and plans centers in Fort Smith and West Memphis. UAMS Breast Cancer Expert Receives Hickingbotham Award from Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation V. Suzanne Klimberg, M.D., director of the Breast Cancer Program in the Arkansas Cancer Research Center (ACRC) at UAMS, recently received the Hickingbotham Award for Service from the Arkansas affiliate of the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation. “You reach beyond professional interests to the interest and needs of the Komen Foundation and the cause of breast cancer,” President Barbara Daugherty of the affiliate told Klimberg in notifying her of the award. The Komen Foundation has been a generous supporter of the Breast Cancer Program at UAMS, contributing more than $500,000 to the program in recent years. It earlier awarded Klimberg a two-year fellowship to train surgeons in the comprehensive and special needs of breast cancer patients. Employees of UAMS had the largest team in the October 4 Race for the Cure™ in Little Rock. The race is an annual fundraiser for the Komen Foundation. UAMS Adds Degree in Medical Dosimetry, One of First in Nation LITTLE ROCK – The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) is starting one of the nation’s first degree programs in medical dosimetry and will offer bachelor degrees and advanced certificates. Medical dosimetrists work as part of radiation therapy teams in hospitals and radiation therapy centers, calculating the proper doses of radiation for individual patients. Dosimetrists use computer programs and three-dimensional images to calculate the doses. The Arkansas Higher Education Coordinating Board recently gave final approval to UAMS to offer the degree. The other dosimetry programs are in Texas, California, Massachusets, Georgia, and North Carolina. Nikos Papanikolaou, Ph.D., will direct the medical dosimetry program, which will be part of the Department of Radiation Therapy in the UAMS College of Health Related Professions. Debra Tomlinson chairs the department, jointly supported by CARTI (Central Arkansas Radiation Therapy Institute). The program will accept its first class in the fall of 2004. For more information about the degree/certificate program, call the Department of Radiation Therapy at (501) 660-7623. Minimally Invasive Hip Replacements Are Just the Latest Innovation in Orthopaedic Surgery at UAMS Minimally Invasive Hip Replacements Are Just the Latest Innovation in Orthopaedic Surgery at UAMS UAMS Cancer Researcher Formally Named Josetta Edwards Wilkins Chair in Breast Cancer Research UAMS Cancer Researcher Formally Named Josetta Edwards Wilkins Chair in Breast Cancer Research Josetta Edwards Wilkins Chair in Breast Cancer Research, LITTLE ROCK – Thomas Kieber-Emmons, Ph.D., a prominent researcher on potential vaccines for preventing recurrences of cancer, was formally installed as the first Josetta Edwards Wilkins, E.D., Chair in Breast Cancer Research at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) today. Kieber-Emmons is a professor of pathology in the UAMS College of Medicine and director of breast cancer research development at the Arkansas Cancer Research Center (ACRC) at UAMS. UAMS established the academic position to honor former state representative Josetta Edwards Wilkins of Pine Bluff, who was the lead sponsor of legislation in 1997 to allocate $4 million to UAMS for breast cancer research. UAMS placed $1 million in an endowment that will generate annual income for research. As the first chairholder, Kieber-Emmons will receive the endowment income to fund his research. University of Arkansas System President B. Alan Sugg, Ph.D.; state Sen. Henry Wilkins IV; and state Rep. Jay Bradford spoke at the installation ceremony, called an investiture, in Sam M. Walton Auditorium at the ACRC. Sugg presented a medallion representing the academic chair as a memento to Dr. Wilkins. Chancellor I. Dodd Wilson, M.D., presided over the ceremony and, with Dean E. Albert Reece, M.D., Ph.D., M.B.A., presented a second medallion to Kieber-Emmons. Ralph D. Sanderson, Ph.D., director of basic research at the ACRC and also a professor of pathology in the College of Medicine, and Heinz Kohler, M.D., Ph.D., of the University of Kentucky, spoke at the ceremony. Afterward, James Y. Suen, M.D., director of the ACRC, welcomed guests to a reception for Kieber-Emmons. Jonesboro Resident Spends Summer as Partner in Research at UAMS Jonesboro Resident Spends Summer as Partner in Research at UAMS as Partner in Research at UAMS, Adam Woodruff, a Jonesboro resident and second-year student in the College of Medicine at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), spent the summer learning about cancer research, patient care and education. He was one of 28 medical, pharmacy and undergraduate students who participated in the 10-week Partners in Research (PIR) Program offered by the Arkansas Cancer Research Center (ACRC) at UAMS. Woodruff and the other students attended weekly lectures by ACRC faculty and shadowed clinicians to learn firsthand how physicians interact with patients. They also worked in labs alongside basic scientists to conduct research in ongoing ACRC studies. At the end of the program, the students presented their research findings at a scientific symposium. This was the 28th year that UAMS offered PIR, which is sponsored by the National Cancer Institute. Osceola Native Receives White Lab Coat at Special Ceremony for First-Year UAMS Medical Students Osceola Native Receives White Lab Coat at Special Ceremony for First-Year UAMS Medical Students Breakthrough Discovery Puts UAMS Closer to Cure for Multiple Myeloma Breakthrough Discovery Puts UAMS Closer to Cure for Multiple Myeloma Preventing Premature Birth Will Be Focus of UAMS Conference Feb. 19-20 Preventing Premature Birth Will Be Focus of UAMS Conference Feb. 19-20 Depression in Pregnancy Topic of Lectures at UAMS Jan. 14, 15 Depression in Pregnancy Topic of Lectures at UAMS Jan. 14, 15 UAMS History of Medicine Award Available UAMS History of Medicine Award Available UAMS History of Medicine Award Available UAMS History of Medicine Award Available Doctor Who Treated JFK at Dallas to Speak at UAMS March 31 Doctor Who Treated JFK at Dallas to Speak at UAMS March 31 Home Energy Benefit Available for UAMS Employees -- Info Session May 29 Home Energy Benefit Available for UAMS Employees -- Info Session May 15 Home Energy Benefit Available for UAMS Employees -- Info Session May 29 Home Energy Benefit Available for UAMS Employees -- Info Session May 15 SAP, ESS Portal Upgrade Downtime Schedule -- May 24-27 SAP, ESS Portal Upgrade Downtime Schedule -- May 24-27 UAMS Celebrates Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month with May 30 Event UAMS Celebrates Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month with May 30 Event UAMS Celebrates Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month with May 30 Event UAMS Celebrates Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month with May 30 Event Logician Maintenance -- 10:15 p.m., Thursday, May 23 Logician Maintenance -- 10:15 p.m., Thursday, May 23 Arkansas Breast Cancer Research Program RFP for Non-pilot Funds -- Deadline June 14 Arkansas Breast Cancer Research Program RFP for Non-pilot Funds -- Deadline June 14 Arkansas Breast Cancer Research Program RFP for Non-pilot Funds -- Deadline June 14 Arkansas Breast Cancer Research Program RFP for Non-pilot Funds -- Deadline June 14 UAMS Student Named Arkansas Dietetic Intern of the Year May 15, 2013 \| Dietetic intern Leigh Delavan says she changed her college majors several times before she found her calling — but nutrition clicked for her so well she recently was selected as the top dietetic intern in the state by the Arkansas Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. UAMS Graduates 891 New Health Care Professionals May 13, 2013 \| The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) awarded certificates and degrees May 12 to 891 graduates of its five colleges and Graduate School during its commencement ceremony at Verizon Arena in North Little Rock. UConnect Training Starts June 3 UConnect Training Starts June 3 UConnect Training Starts June 3 UConnect Training Starts June 3 RQI Maintenance -- Starts 9 p.m., Wednesday, May 22 RQI Maintenance -- Starts 9 p.m., Wednesday, May 22 Bright Futures Begin Early Conference Set for May 31 Bright Futures Begin Early Conference Set for May 31 CHP Ceremony Recognizes Graduate Degree Recipients May 16, 2013 \| Forty-three students were honored for earning advanced degrees during a hooding ceremony May 9 by the College of Health Professions. UConnect eLearnings Requirements and Instructions UConnect eLearnings Requirements and Instructions UConnect eLearnings Requirements and Instructions UConnect eLearnings Requirements and Instructions Cancer Institute Grand Rounds -- Noon, May 22 Cancer Institute Grand Rounds -- Noon, May 22 Cancer Institute Grand Rounds -- Noon, May 22 Cancer Institute Grand Rounds -- Noon, May 22 Multicultural Mental Health Conference Set for July 27 Multicultural Mental Health Conference Set for July 27 Multicultural Mental Health Conference Set for July 27 Multicultural Mental Health Conference Set for July 27 Science Cafe - "The Illusion of Time" -- May 28 Science Cafe - "The Illusion of Time" - May 28 Science Cafe - "The Illusion of Time" -- May 28 Science Cafe - "The Illusion of Time" - May 28 May/June Library Drop In Class Schedule May/June Library Drop In Class Schedule May/June Library Drop In Class Schedule May/June Library Drop In Class Schedule Shuttle Service Change for Summer 2013 Shuttle Service change for Summer 2013 Shuttle Service Change for Summer 2013 Shuttle Service change for Summer 2013 UConnect Education Team Seeking Wave 2 Support UConnect Education Team Seeking Wave 2 Support UConnect Education Team Seeking Wave 2 Support UConnect Education Team Seeking Wave 2 Support Computer Virus Prevention -- May 24 Computer Virus Prevention - May 24 Computer Virus Prevention -- May 24 Computer Virus Prevention - May 24 Computer Virus Prevention -- May 24 Computer Virus Prevention - May 24 Anonymous Foundation Grant Funds Hospital Art Anonymous Foundation Grant Funds Hospital Art Anonymous Foundation Grant Funds Hospital Art Anonymous Foundation Grant Funds Hospital Art	LITTLE ROCK – The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) has received a five-year grant of $665,000 from the National Institute on Drug Abuse to study best practices for treating depression in substance abusers. Although much is known about how to help substance abusers overcome depression, in actual practice many substance abuse programs struggle with detection and treatment of depression. Geoffrey Curran Ph.D., will develop and test a clear decision process, called an algorithm, for diagnosis and treatment, basing the process on the findings from large scientific studies. This approach is known as evidence-based medicine. Curran also will test ways to disseminate the process to physicians, clinics, and substance abuse programs. Third, he will track how well patients follow doctors’ advice in taking antidepressant medication. Curran plans to expand his research later to incorporate counseling into the algorithm and patient tracking. Curran is a sociologist and assistant professor of psychiatry in the UAMS College of Medicine. UAMS conducts extensive research on approaches to treating substance abuse. It also recently launched a major initiative to disseminate best practice guidelines for high-risk maternal-fetal medicine to obstetricians and family practice physicians in Arkansas, with funding from the federal Medicaid program through the Arkansas Department of Human Services. Major depressive disorder results from chemical imbalances in the brain that are believed to have a genetic basis. Nearly 10 percent of American adults have a depressive disorder. Major depressive disorder is the leading cause of disability in the U.S. and in other market economies worldwide. Many people with untreated depression use alcohol, tobacco, or illegal drugs; between 2000 and 2001, the number of people needing but not receiving substance abuse treatment increased from 3.9 million to 5 million. Treatment for depression typically involves medication and may also involve occasional or intensive psychotherapy, depending on the severity of the disorder.
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