LITTLE ROCK – Sarah Beth Harrington, M.D., recently joined the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Palliative Care Consult Team, which helps guide patients and their families facing difficult and complex treatment decisions. 

Harrington is also an assistant professor of medicine in the UAMS Department of Internal Medicine and Division of Hematology/Oncology.

The relatively new subspecialty of palliative care focuses on pain and symptom management with the goal of helping patients maintain the best quality of life possible.

Harrington also staffs the Cancer Pain and Symptom Clinic in the UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute and she is working to begin a palliative care fellowship program.

Harrington received her medical degree from UAMS. She completed an internship and residency in internal medicine at the Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center, where she also completed a fellowship in palliative medicine.

UAMS is the state’s only comprehensive academic health center, with five colleges, a graduate school, a medical center, six centers of excellence and a statewide network of regional centers. UAMS has 2,652 students and 733 medical residents. Its centers of excellence include the Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute, the Jackson T. Stephens Spine & Neurosciences Institute, the Myeloma Institute for Research and Therapy, the Harvey & Bernice Jones Eye Institute, the Psychiatric Research Institute and the Donald W. Reynolds Institute on Aging. It is one of the state’s largest public employers with about 10,000 employees, including nearly 1,150 physicians who provide medical care to patients at UAMS, Arkansas Children’s Hospital, the VA Medical Center and UAMS’ Area Health Education Centers throughout the state. UAMS and its affiliates have an economic impact in Arkansas of $5 billion a year. Visit www.uams.edu.

LITTLE ROCK – Sarah Beth Harrington, M.D., recently joined the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Palliative Care Consult Team, which helps guide patients and their families facing difficult and complex treatment decisions. 

Harrington is also an assistant professor of medicine in the UAMS Department of Internal Medicine and Division of Hematology/Oncology.

The relatively new subspecialty of palliative care focuses on pain and symptom management with the goal of helping patients maintain the best quality of life possible.

Harrington also staffs the Cancer Pain and Symptom Clinic in the UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute and she is working to begin a palliative care fellowship program.

Harrington received her medical degree from UAMS. She completed an internship and residency in internal medicine at the Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center, where she also completed a fellowship in palliative medicine.

UAMS is the state’s only comprehensive academic health center, with five colleges, a graduate school, a medical center, six centers of excellence and a statewide network of regional centers. UAMS has 2,652 students and 733 medical residents. Its centers of excellence include the Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute, the Jackson T. Stephens Spine & Neurosciences Institute, the Myeloma Institute for Research and Therapy, the Harvey & Bernice Jones Eye Institute, the Psychiatric Research Institute and the Donald W. Reynolds Institute on Aging. It is one of the state’s largest public employers with about 10,000 employees, including nearly 1,150 physicians who provide medical care to patients at UAMS, Arkansas Children’s Hospital, the VA Medical Center and UAMS’ Area Health Education Centers throughout the state. UAMS and its affiliates have an economic impact in Arkansas of $5 billion a year. Visit www.uams.edu.

LITTLE ROCK – Sarah Beth Harrington, M.D., recently joined the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Palliative Care Consult Team, which helps guide patients and their families facing difficult and complex treatment decisions. 

Harrington is also an assistant professor of medicine in the UAMS Department of Internal Medicine and Division of Hematology/Oncology.

The relatively new subspecialty of palliative care focuses on pain and symptom management with the goal of helping patients maintain the best quality of life possible.

Harrington also staffs the Cancer Pain and Symptom Clinic in the UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute and she is working to begin a palliative care fellowship program.

Harrington received her medical degree from UAMS. She completed an internship and residency in internal medicine at the Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center, where she also completed a fellowship in palliative medicine.

UAMS is the state’s only comprehensive academic health center, with five colleges, a graduate school, a medical center, six centers of excellence and a statewide network of regional centers. UAMS has 2,652 students and 733 medical residents. Its centers of excellence include the Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute, the Jackson T. Stephens Spine & Neurosciences Institute, the Myeloma Institute for Research and Therapy, the Harvey & Bernice Jones Eye Institute, the Psychiatric Research Institute and the Donald W. Reynolds Institute on Aging. It is one of the state’s largest public employers with about 10,000 employees, including nearly 1,150 physicians who provide medical care to patients at UAMS, Arkansas Children’s Hospital, the VA Medical Center and UAMS’ Area Health Education Centers throughout the state. UAMS and its affiliates have an economic impact in Arkansas of $5 billion a year. Visit www.uams.edu.