July 7, 2024

The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) has named Ryan Cork, MSHA, as its next vice chancellor for the Northwest Arkansas Region, effective Sept. 1.

He joins UAMS from the Northwest Arkansas Council in Bentonville, where he has served as the nonprofit’s executive director of healthcare transformation since 2021.

July 7, 2024

CHI St. Vincent announced that oncologist Abhijit Godbole, MD, has joined the team of specialists at the CHI St. Vincent Cancer Center in Little Rock. Godbole began seeing patients on June 17. 

July 7, 2024

The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) has earned a $750,000 federal grant to help reestablish a family medicine residency program in El Dorado.

The grant was awarded by the Health Resources and Services Administration, which is part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. UAMS is one of just 15 organizations nationwide to receive funding from an $11 million effort to launch medical residency programs in rural communities.

July 1, 2024

Researchers at the Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) have been awarded five new grants from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) in 2024, totaling $4.6 million.

New grants include:

-$3.3 million NCI grant to create a Melanoma Resistance Evolution Atlas, Principal Investigator: Alan Tackett, PhD, Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute deputy director

July 1, 2024

Cori Keller has joined Baptist Health as a physician relations representative.

Keller, a Stuttgart native, is a two-time graduate of Arkansas State University where she earned a bachelor’s degree in exercise science and a master’s degree in radio/TV mass communications.

As Miss Arkansas 2023, Keller devoted much of her advocacy to two primary initiatives – heart health and childhood hunger.