The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) presented the Loving Support Award of Excellence to Arkansas’ Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) at the grand opening of the first breastfeeding room at the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff (UAPB) within an academic school.
The USDA Loving Support Award of Excellence is presented to local WIC agencies that have provided exemplary breastfeeding promotion and support activities and ultimately increase breastfeeding initiation and duration rates among WIC participants.
The CHI St. Vincent Heart Institute announced a collaboration with Philadelphia, Pennsylvania-based Penn Medicine to accelerate high-priority clinical research efforts related to heart surgery and implement novel approaches into surgical practice.
Choudhary, MD, MBA, was named chair of the Department of Radiology in the College of Medicine at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS).
Katie Beal, MD, and Amy Fry, MD, board-certified obstetrics and gynecology physicians, recently joined Northwest Women’s Specialty Group. The practice is located at 2900 Medical Center Parkway, Suite 240A, in Bentonville. They are members of the medical staff of Northwest Medical Center-Bentonville.