Member Profile

University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences College of Medicine

Overview

UAMS combines the patient care resources of a state-of-the art hospital and outpatient center with the Arkansas Cancer Research Center, Harvey and Bernice Jones Eye Institute, Donald W. Reynolds Institute on Aging, Myeloma Institute for Research and Therapy, and Jackson T. Stephens Spine & Neurosciences Institute.

The outreach efforts of UAMS include seven Area Health Education Centers (AHECs) in Fayetteville, Pine Bluff, El Dorado, Texarkana, Fort Smith, Jonesboro, and Helena, Ark.; networks of senior health centers and centers for young children with special health care needs; and interactive video education and medical consultation services to community hospitals around the state.

UAMS is the state's largest basic and applied research institution, with more than $107 million in annual research funding, grants and contracts and internationally renowned programs in multiple myeloma, aging, cancer and other areas.

UAMS and its affiliates, Arkansas Children's Hospital and the Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System have a total economic impact in Arkansas of about $4.4 billion per year. UAMS receives less than 11 percent of its funding from the state. Its operation is funded by payments for clinical services (64 percent), grants and contracts (18 percent), philanthropy and other (5 percent), and tuition and fees (2 percent).

Current Project

UAMS' Information Technology (IT) mission is to provide a coherent, highly functional, cost effective and customer-service oriented IT environment. It is an expectation that IT will strengthen the overall efficiency and effectiveness of the delivery of education, patient care and research.

ARIA is the Automated Research Information Administrator. The overall objective of ARIA is to provide an integrated environment for the exchange of information from ORSP, IRB, Office for Clinical Trials, Animals, Biosafety, and Laboratory for UAMS campus-wide research. ARIA is designed to be a major component of a comprehensive solution for the information technology needs of administrators, researchers, and institutions while maintaining an emphasis on compliance with regulatory requirements. Through implementation of ARIA, researchers will be provided a supporting infrastructure to continue their mission to engage in activities that improve the health and well-being of people and animals. ARIA is supported in part by the National Center for Research Resources of the National Institutes of Health.