May 8, 2017

Kristopher B. Shewmake, MD, has joined the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) as director of the Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery in the College of Medicine Department of Surgery.

He is also an associate professor of plastic surgery at UAMS. He continues to see patients through his private practice, Shewmake Plastic Surgery in Little Rock.

May 8, 2017

Baptist Health Urgent Care welcomes Devin Shepard, nurse practitioner, to its Jacksonville location.

May 8, 2017

James D. Marsh, MD, Chairman of the Department of Internal Medicine in the College of Medicine at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), has been elected chair of the board of directors for the Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine (AAIM).

May 8, 2017

Today, May 9, representatives from the American Cancer Society and University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) will team up to make an announcement regarding cancer research in Arkansas.

Spokespersons for the announcement, slated for 11 a.m., will be American Cancer Society National Scientific Director, Charles Saxe, PhD; American Cancer Society Arkansas Director of Development, Sherri Jones; UAMS Chancellor, Dan Rahn, MD; UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute Director, Peter Emanuel, MD; and cancer researchers.

May 8, 2017

CHI St Vincent Hot Springs announced today that the Katherine C. Anthony Charitable Trust has made a $500,000 donation to the development of its Mother Baby Unit.