June 18, 2023

St. Bernards Internal Medicine Residency Program graduated eight internal medicine physicians on June 16. This group has trained within St. Bernards for the past three years, working in both hospital and clinic settings while training as internal medicine specialists.

Graduating physicians included Chief Resident John Armstrong, DO, Hadia Arzoun, MD, Josh Buell, DO, Derek Childers, MD, Anna De Feria, DO, Zachary “Carter” Lee, DO, Austin Richardson, DO, and Siji Thomas, MD.

There ceremony was held at St. Bernards Medical Center in Jonesboro.

June 18, 2023

Less than a year in, the 10-year collaboration agreement between Mercy and Mayo Clinic is going global through Mayo Clinic Platform_Connect, a distributed data network. After first joining with Mercy to collaborate last summer, Mayo Clinic has also reached similar agreements with Brazil's Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, Israel's Sheba Medical Center, and Canada's University Health Network.  

June 12, 2023

CARTI unveiled Arkansas’ first dedicated cancer surgery center on June 9. Located at its flagship Little Rock campus, the 57,000-square-foot facility is the latest step in CARTI’s mission to make trusted cancer care accessible to every patient it serves.

June 12, 2023

The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) College of Medicine appointed Shashank Kraleti, MD, as chair of the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, effective July 1.

Kraleti will also hold the Dr. Algernon Sidney Garnett Chair in Family Medicine.

June 12, 2023

A University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) study has found that COVID-19 sparked a big jump in the use of digital health services for prenatal care that remained higher than pre-pandemic levels through late 2021. 

Published in JAMA Network Open, the study using a national database showed that telehealth use during a 40-week pregnancy went from 1.1% for deliveries in January 2020 to 17.3% for deliveries in November 2020, before declining to 9.9% by October 2021.