Nupur Lala surrounded by fellow second-year medical students at UAMS starting on the left, Rebecca Moore , Sean Parham, Gayatri SureshKumar and Charles Lavender.
UAMS College of Pharmacy. The group recently distributed more than $12,000 in grants to a dozen pharmacy student groups and college faculty to support special research projects. “It was fun to get a group of women together to support the college and support each other with networking and professional development,” said Nicki Hilliard, Pharm. D., and Giving Circle Chair. Future academic leadership is also being furthered through the generosity of Arkansas Blue Cross and Blue Shield through two $150,000 grants to the UAMS Center for Dental Education and the UAMS Office of Interprofessional Education (IPE) to expand collaborative practice for UAMS students. For a Better State of Health
“With the new focus on IPE, all of our students are learning with and from each other in multidisciplinary teams so that everyone is responsible for a good patient outcome,” said Stephanie Gardner, Pharm.D., Ed.D., provost and chief academic officer. An additional $1 million grant from Arkansas Blue Cross established The Arkansas Blue Cross and Blue Shield, George K. Mitchell, M.D., Endowed Chair in Primary Care that honors Mitchell — a UAMS graduate and a Arkansas Blue Cross board member and retired president. The chair holder, when appointed, will focus on expanding and brining innovations to primary care.
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