North Arkansas Regional Medical Center (NARMC) announced the addition of Jessie Little, MD, a pediatrician, to the medical team.
Little earned a bachelor’s degree from Ouachita Baptist University in Arkadelphia. She furthered her medical training at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, followed by a residency at both UAMS and Arkansas Children’s Hospital.
Mudassar Kamran, MD, MSc, DPhil (Oxon) has joined the team at Baptist Health Neurosurgery Arkansas.
The East North Street Foundation, co-founded and operated by David Hendrix and Doug Hendrix, has donated one million dollars to Arkansas Children's Hospital (ACH) in support of the hospital’s $235.2 million expansion project.
Arkansas Children's is expanding bed capacity and transforming inpatient and outpatient surgical approaches at ACH with the addition of an ambulatory surgery center. The plan for the Little Rock campus will also redesign clinical spaces to promote multidisciplinary care, and create an inviting and accessible campus experience.
CHI St. Vincent announced that endocrinologist and obesity medicine specialist Dinesh Edem, MD, joined the CHI St. Vincent Diabetes and Endocrinology Clinic in Little Rock. Edem specializes in endocrinology and non-surgical weight loss.
Arkansas Children's Research Institute (ACRI) has received $3.3 million from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to run a five-year study that will clarify which viral and host factors lead to severe disease among children infected with the virus that causes COVID-19.
The research will improve health outcomes of children worldwide. Josh Kennedy, MD, principal investigator, and Peter Mourani, MD, co-investigator and president of ACRI, will lead this study that will identify common features in children with multiple respiratory viruses, including SARS-CoV-2.
