Scientists to talk music, medicine
Two scientists who have studied the connection between music and the brain will deliver a lecture at Arkansas State University's Riceland Hall on Tuesday.
Alex Pantelyat and Nina Kraus will discuss some of their research in a talk titled "Rhythmic Healing: Music & Medicine."
Pantelyat is a neurology professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine whose research concentrates on atypical parkinsonian disorders. Kraus is a member of the Northwestern University faculty who studies how brains process sound.
The event, formally titled the Vollman & Wilson Lecture, is part of the Distinguished Medical Lecture series. It's hosted by the New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine's campus at the Jonesboro university.
The event begins at 6:30 p.m. It's free to attend.
Panel will review issues of gender
Students and community leaders will lead a panel discussion at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock on Wednesday on what it means to be transgender.
The panel will include a conversation about issues of importance to people who are transgender.
It's planned in advance of International Transgender Day of Visibility, a March 31 event intended to celebrate transgender people and highlight discrimination issues. The discussion will offer a question-and-answer period.
Organized by UALR's Gay-Straight Alliance and social advocacy group Advocating for the Wellbeing and Respect of Everyone, the event will take place on the second floor of Ottenheimer Library in the Anderson Institute of Race and Ethnicity.
It starts at 6:30 p.m.
Opiate addiction crisis spotlighted
The Arkansas Psychiatric Society hosts a screening of a documentary series about the opiate addiction crisis on Friday.
Gov. Asa Hutchinson will attend the event, according to a media release from his office.
Killing Pain's website says the documentary series is set in Oklahoma. It includes personal stories about addiction, as well as discussions of biology and the epidemic's cost.
A discussion with physicians and members of Fighting Addiction Through Education, an Oklahoma City substance abuse education and prevention-focused nonprofit, will follow the screening.
The event at the Ron Robinson Theater, 100 River Market Ave., Little Rock, is free to attend. It starts at 7 p.m.
UAMS sets mark for residencies
The largest-ever number of University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences graduates have matched with residency programs, according to a news release.
On the March 15 national Match Day event, 160 UAMS students received residency assignments.
Residency is part of training to become a doctor. It lasts between three and seven years, depending on specialty -- primary care programs are shorter, while plastic surgery and neurosurgery are among specialties with the longest training times.
More than half this year's UAMS class who matched will pursue residency in primary care specialties, such as internal medicine, pediatrics or family medicine.
Metro on 03/24/2019