December 12, 2016

W. Brooks Gentry, MD, chair of the Department of Anesthesiology in the College of Medicine at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), was invested Dec. 6 as the inaugural holder of the Carmelita S. Pablo, MD, Endowed Chair in Anesthesiology.

December 12, 2016

Governor Asa Hutchinson, along with Senator Jonathan Dismang, President Pro Tempore, and Representative Jeremy Gillam, Speaker of the House, announced five appointments to the Arkansas Medical Marijuana Commission. They are as follows:

Dr. Ronda Henry-Tillman, MD, Little Rock, to the Medical Marijuana Commission. (Hutchinson Appointment)

Dr. Stephen J. Carroll, PharmD, Benton, to the Medical Marijuana Commission. (Gillam Appointment)

Travis W. Story, Esq., Fayetteville, to the Medical Marijuana Commission. (Gillam Appointment)

December 12, 2016

Fellowship-trained gynecologic oncologist John E. Savage, MD, has joined the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS). He sees patients in the second floor clinics at the UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute.

December 12, 2016

Arkansas Medicaid awarded more than $4.5 million in performance bonus payments to 26 Arkansas hospitals as part of the annual Inpatient Quality Incentive (IQI) program. Individual hospitals were recognized at an awards ceremony during the annual Arkansas Medicaid Educational Conference luncheon, Wednesday, Dec. 7, at Embassy Suites Little Rock.

December 12, 2016

Aaron S. Wenger, MD, has been named director of the Division of Hospital Medicine in the College of Medicine’s Department of Internal Medicine at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS).