HJAR Nov/Dec 2020

32 NOV / DEC 2020  I  HEALTHCARE JOURNAL OF ARKANSAS   Healthcare Briefs helped to host the state’s first Mission: Healthy Baby shower,” said Michelle Smith, PhD, director of the ADH Office of Health Equity. “This new col- laboration with Healthy Active Arkansas is a great opportunity to introduce a segment of the Arkan- sas community to the work this initiative is doing to promote breastfeeding across the state.” The lactation room, located at the 189th Med- ical Group (MDG) clinic in building 101 at the base, contains a sink, a door that locks, litera- ture on breastfeeding, and a refrigerator to store expressed milk. Four NewPhysicians Join Radiology Associates, P.A. Four new physicians joined Radiology Associ- ates, P.A. They include Drs. Gregory Morris, Shy- ann Renfroe, Mazen Zawaideh, and Miles Ritter. Morris earned a medical degree from the Uni- versity of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock, Ark. He completed a residency at the Uni- versity of Michigan, Ann Arbor and a fellowship in musculoskeletal radiology from the University of Washington in Seattle, Wash. He will be working remotely from the West Coast to provide after- hours teleradiology service. Renfroe joined RAPA after completing a med- ical degree, residency, and fellowship in breast imaging from the University of Arkansas for Med- ical Sciences College of Medicine in Little Rock, Ark. She served as chief resident from 2017-2019. She will be servicing the Warren and Pine Bluff locations in Arkansas, as well as reading from locations around the state. Zawaideh earned a medical degree from Uni- versity of California San Diego School of Medi- cine. He completed a residency, and fellowship in diagnostic neuroradiology, at the University of Washington Medical Center in Seattle, Wash. He will be working remotely from the West Coast to provide after-hours teleradiology service. Ritter earned a medical degree from the Uni- versity of Arkansas for Medical Sciences College of Medicine in Little Rock. He completed a resi- dency and MSK fellowship from the University of Alabama School of Medicine in Birmingham, Ala. He will be serving our central Arkansas locations which include Little Rock, Benton, Conway, Pine Bluff, and Searcy, as well as reading from remote locations from around the state. Baptist Health Opens Gastroenterology Center in Van Buren Thusha Nathan, MD, is now accepting patients at Baptist Health Gastroenterology Center-Van Buren at 209 Pointer Trail West, Suite C. Nathan provides comprehensive gastroenter- ology services, including treatment for hepatitis B and C, management of liver disease, and diag- nostic colonoscopies and endoscopies. Many of the procedures are provided at Baptist Health- Van Buren, offering residents of Crawford County and Northwest Arkansas a shorter commute for specialty care. Nathan earned a medical degree from Ross University School of Medicine and completed a fellowship of gastroenterology at Texas Tech Uni- versity Health Sciences Center in Lubbock. $10.6Million Federal Grant to Expand National Proteomics Resource at UAMS A $10.6 million grant from the National Insti- tutes of Health (NIH) will allow the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) to greatly expand its proteomics resource. This grant will establish the IDeA National Resource for Quan- titative Proteomics as the first NIH National Resource in Arkansas, which will serve biomed- ical researchers across the nation. Proteomics is the large-scale study of proteins that can lead to the development of new ther- apies and screening approaches for many dis- eases, including cancer. The five-year grant was awarded to Alan Tack- ett, PhD, associate director for basic science at the UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Insti- tute. Tackett serves as an administrative director of this new national resource. Other key contributors at UAMS are Rick Edmondson, PhD; Samuel Mackintosh, PhD; and Stephanie Byrum, PhD; as well as Michael Kinter, PhD, at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foun- dation who serves as a co-administrative director. The national resource was initially created through the Arkansas INBRE (IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence) -- an NIH pro- gram that promotes biomedical research for undergraduate students and faculty. Lawrence Cornett, PhD, professor in the UAMS College of Gregory Morris, MD Shyann Renfroe, MD Mazen Zawaideh, MD Miles Ritter, MD