Rankings and Recognition
UAMS has received various awards and recognition for educational, clinical, and research endeavors over the years.
In education, UAMS is frequently recognized by U.S. News & World Report as a leader in clinical education, tied for 33rd overall in 2010, and is ranked among the best research medical schools in the nation. U.S. News & World Report also ranks the Geriatrics, Primary Care, and Nursing programs among the best in the nation. The Chronicle of Higher Education also ranks UAMS's Pharmacy program 5th in the nation.
In clinical care, UAMS has been featured as one of "America's Best Hospitals" by U.S. News & World Report and listed as one of the 100 "Hospital of Choice" award winners by the American Alliance of Healthcare Providers. In 2011, UAMS was named the "Top Hospital" out of 23 in the Little Rock Metropolitan Area by U.S. News & World Report. U.S. News & World Report went on to recognize UAMS as a "high performing" hospital in the areas of Cancer, Ear, Nose and Throat, Gynecology, and Nephrology. UAMS is recognized as a world leader in Multiple Myleoma treatment, and boasts a 5-year survival rate twice that of the national average. It is also known for being the only high-risk pregnancy program, the only adult cystic fibrosis center, and the only liver transplant program in the state of Arkansas. UAMS is also home to 240 physicians featured in the list of Best Doctors in America, some of which are at Arkansas Children's Hospital and Central Arkansas Veteran's Healthcare System, where UAMS faculty serve as staff.
In research, UAMS is well known as a leader in multiple myeloma, geriatrics, vision, and spine treatment research and is home to the Arkansas Biosciences Institute and the UAMS Bioventures Business Incubator. UAMS is ranked in the top 20% of all US Colleges & Universities in research funding from Federal Government, and received $61 million in NIH (National Institutes of Health) funding in 2010. Clinical researchers at UAMS performed the first outpatient bone marrow transplant in the US, as well as the first gene therapy for multiple myeloma in the US. They are also home to a number of robotic, experimental, and advanced treatment facilities found nowhere else in the state of Arkansas. In 2010, UAMS teaching faculty and researcher Jerry Ware, partnered with Harvard Medical School's David Lee, were recognized for their work on a unique platelet treatment to treat rheumatoid arthritis as authoring one of the five most important papers in biology of 2010 by the Faculty of 1000 and were recognized as having produced the top advance in arthritis research by the Arthritis Foundation. Their research is ongoing and has a UAMS/Harvard patent pending through UAMS BioVentures.
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