December 20, 2021

Baptist Health’s newest cardiothoracic surgeon, Byran Barrus, MD, is utilizing a new minimally invasive procedure he helped develop to implant HeartMate III devices in advanced heart failure patients. 

December 20, 2021

College students who are interested in attending medical school are invited to participate in a free medical college admissions test (MCAT) prep course New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine at Arkansas State University is offering this spring.  

December 13, 2021

The Festival of Stars Toy and Donation Drive and Radiothon raised $364,249 for Arkansas Children’s, making the holidays brighter for the patients and families of Arkansas Children’s Hospital and Arkansas Children’s Northwest, the state’s local Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals.

December 13, 2021

Methodist Family Health recently promoted Amanda Bolls Smith, CFRE, to executive director of Methodist Family Health Foundation, and hired Eva Englert-Jessen as its director of pastoral care.

Smith has more than two decades of fundraising and nonprofit work in Arkansas. She recently achieved certification as a fundraising executive, and was formerly the director of development at Methodist Family Health Foundation. She has a bachelor's from Hendrix College in Conway.

December 13, 2021

The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) has named Richard Turnage, MD, as vice chancellor for Regional Campuses, effective immediately. 

He succeeds Amy Wenger, MHSA, who became vice chancellor of the Northwest Regional Campus on Dec. 1.