Lindsey Clark

A photograph of a cell undergoing mitosis found in a bone marrow specimen. 

Lindsey Clark, M.P.H., is an assistant professor in the UAMS College of Health Professions Department of Laboratory Sciences.

Lindsey Clark

This photograph shows one step in the DNA extraction process.  Working in a molecular laboratory is enough to remind you that sometimes, the small things do matter.

Lindsey Clark, M.P.H., is an assistant professor in the UAMS College of Health Professions Department of Laboratory Sciences.

Jonathan Spradley

This image illustrates that the practice of medicine is a collaborative effort. Individual providers may feel a large responsibility for a patient’s care, but effective care occurs when many providers’ perspectives and skills are brought together to give a complete bird’s-eye view of a person in need and how to care for them.

Jonathan Spradley is a medical student at UAMS.

Jonathan Spradley

Hospitals tend to hold strongly positive or negative associations for people: those of inspiring medical expertise and research or painful memories about themselves or loved ones. Often overlooked are the quiet, routine moments that occur every day from maintenance to landscaping to window washing that allow hospitals to stand amidst their chaos within.

Jonathan Spradley is a medical student at UAMS.

Jonathan Spradley

This image is a reminder of the intersectionality of healthcare disparities between geographic location and gender. Women, such as this one in Essaouira, Morocco, are tasked with difficult journeys of trying to participate in healthcare systems made inaccessible to them as doors are repeatedly closed in their paths.

Jonathan Spradley is a medical student at UAMS.

Jonathan Spradley

This image represents the “art of medicine” – the artistic and creative expression that can come from technical skills or seemingly black & white components. As with learning to play the proper keys on a piano to create music, the overall outcome of medical education should be to reach beyond scientific knowledge and create personalized, meaningful treatment plans and relationships with patients.

Jonathan Spradley is a medical student at UAMS.

By Elizabeth Hanson

First, she told him that winter had come.
That the ground was hard
And the soil cold.
That the seeds were stowed safely away
Somewhere deep, waiting
For the warm season to come.

Then, she told him the snow had melted.
That the orchard was a lake
And the earth too wet.
That they must wait for it to dry
Because seeds, well, they couldn’t swim!
They needed dirt, soft yet strong
Where roots might anchor,
Tangle and grow.

Next, she told him that a daffodil had bloomed.
That it stretched tall,
And yellow beneath the orchard’s branches.
That above, buds had formed,
Blanketing the bark
The way his quilt covered him.
If only he could hang on.

Last, she told him that his turn had come.
That he would sleep and then wake
With the heart that had grown
From the seeds they had saved.
That he might dream of the day
She had walked among the orchard rows
In the place where love grew on trees,
And hearts could be plucked
Like apples in the fall.

Elizabeth Hanson is a resident physician in the Emergency Medical Department at UAMS.