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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 care.

One of the grants was for the Culinary Medicine Curriculum and Food Pantry, to adapt a culinary medicine curriculum for UAMS students and to develop an in-house food pantry for employees and students who struggle with food insecurity. Gloria Richard-Davis, M.D., professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and Tanya Johnson, director of Nutrition and Food Services, accepted the $100,000 grant, tying the record for largest grant to date.

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.

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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 curriculum this spring.

This 4th-year elective program aims to educate doctors on how to target cooking for different conditions to better advise their patients.

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