January 30, 2020
Dr. Drobena to Speak at the Plant Strong Club
Dr. Gina Drobena will speak about the culinary medicine program and lifestyle medicine at the February 3 meeting of the Little Rock Plant Strong Club. Get more details on the Plant Club website.
January 7, 2020
Culinary Medicine Profiled in UAMS Journal
The Culinary Medicine program was featured in the Fall 2019 issue of the UAMS Journal.
January 3, 2020
Program Featured on ArkLaTex Homepage
May 15, 2019
Culinary Medicine Learn on Demand Opportunity
Culinary Medicine: An Ideal Interprofessional Opportunity Presenter: Gina Drobena, M.D. CME Credit is available! Click the link below for more information: https://learnondemand.org/lms/activity?@activity.id=6769399
May 10, 2019
Culinary Class Offered to Patients During Infertility Awareness Week
By Katrina Dupins May. 10, 2019 | A group of women gathered inside a commercial kitchen in Little Rock recently for a UAMS-led culinary medicine cooking class. Culinary medicine is the practice of helping patients use nutrition and good cooking habits to restore and maintain health. UAMS is developing a culinary medicine program for health…
April 3, 2019
Dr. Richard-Davis Featured in Magazine
Dr. Gloria Richard-Davis hopes to fix the obesity problem with the new UAMS Culinary Medicine program. She and many others believe that by teaching new doctors how to educate patients to choose the right foods, chronic medical conditions will decrease. Check out her interview in My Menopause Magazine.
March 27, 2019
Cooking for a Healthier State
Most of us have heard phrases like these over the years. And many of us have taken them to heart because they sound like common sense. But we probably never thought much about the science that actually supports them.
March 6, 2019
Culinary Medicine Receives $100,000 Chancellor’s Circle Grant
UAMS Chancellor Cam Patterson, M.D., MBA, awarded 12 program grants totaling a record-tying $425,000 at the annual Chancellor’s Circle Grant Awards ceremony and reception held March 5. The funds awarded match the record set last year by the Chancellor’s Circle, which provides funds to support key mission areas in health care education, research and patient…
October 27, 2018
Demonstrating a Healthy Recipe on KATV
Dr. Cam Patterson and Medical Student Sasha Ray from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences demonstrate how to make a vegetarian pizza for What’s for Dinner. UAMS is beginning a new culinary medicine curriculum, and Dr. Patterson explains how this will benefit medical students, doctors, and patients in the long run. Watch the video…
October 17, 2018
Doctors Cooking Up a Healthier Arkansas with UAMS Curriculum
We go to our doctors for everything health, now future doctors who go through UAMS will also be able to offer their patients “Culinary Medicine”. Currently, Arkansas ranks in the top 10 in the US in three categories obesity, diabetes, and heart disease. UAMS recently cooked up the pilot program it looks to implement in the medical…