HJAR Mar/Apr 2021

62 MAR / APR 2021  I  HEALTHCARE JOURNAL OF ARKANSAS Hospital Rounds Arkansas Children’s Promotes Erin Parker to Chief Information Officer Arkansas Children’s has promoted long-time sys- tem leader Erin Parker, MBA, CHC, CHPC, CHRC, to the position of senior vice president and chief information officer. Parker, who had served as interim in the role since July, brings to the posi- tion a deep knowledge of the state’s only pediat- ric health system. As she steps into the position full-time, Parker will be responsible for building partnerships while leading the organization’s focus on systems security, infrastructure, and digital initiatives that make healthcare more accessible and seamless for workforce, providers, and patients and their caregivers. She will lead a division of more than 200 team members, drawing on her experience designing and implementing compliance initia- tives with the system’s electronic health record. Parker has most recently served as vice presi- dent/system compliance officer for Arkansas Chil- dren’s, capping 14 years of progressive leadership roles with the system. She has developed work plans building on the system’s mission of mak- ing children better today and healthier tomorrow, including planning, implementing, and maintain- ing effective compliance practices for the system’s hospitals and clinics statewide. “After a nationwide search and interview pro- cess of high-caliber candidates who could lead our deeply engaged and innovative Information Services team, Erin stood out among some of the best leaders in the industry,” said Arkansas Chil- dren’s President & CEO Marcy Doderer, FACHE. “I am proud that we found our best candidate internally. I look forward to working with the team as they help define and deliver unprecedented child health with Erin’s guidance.” Parker started as a volunteer for Arkansas Chil- dren’s Hospital in Little Rock in 2001, and joined the team in a professional capacity when an inter- nal audit position opened in 2006. Parker’s 14-year tenure at Arkansas Children’s has also included service as the system’s HIPAA privacy officer and corporate compliance director. Parker holds a master’s in business administra- tion from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and a bachelor’s in professional accountancy from Ouachita Baptist University. She is certified in healthcare compliance (CHC) and healthcare privacy compliance (CHPC), and she is a member of the Children’s Hospital Association’s Chief Infor- mation Officer cohort. Anton Lishmanov, MD, Joins Arkansas Heart Hospital Cardiology Team Anton Lishmanov, MD, has joined the cardiol- ogy team at Arkansas Heart Hospital. He will be seeing patients at clinics in Saline County, Little Rock, Hot Springs, Danville, and Russellville. Originally from Siberia, Russia, he moved to Columbia, Mo., in 2009, where he completed an internal medicine residency. He then continued with a fellowship in cardiology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, followed by a car- diac critical care fellowship at Albert Einstein Col- lege of Medicine-Montefiore Medical Center in New York, and finally an advanced interventional cardiology fellowship at University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. Prior to joining Arkansas Heart Hospital, he was in private practice in Jacksonville, Florida. Baptist Health, Arkansas Urology Offer Aquablation Therapy Arkansas Urology and Baptist Health Medical Center-Little Rock are using a new, minimally inva- sive surgical offering to aid men with lower urinary tract symptoms as a result of BPH. Aquablation therapy uses the power of water delivered with robotic precision to provide long- lasting symptom relief with low rates of irrevers- ible complications, regardless of prostate size or shape. It significantly reduces the chances of sex- ual dysfunction and incontinence. Aquablation therapy is performed by the Aqua- Beam Robotic System, the first FDA-cleared, sur- gical robot utilizing automated tissue resection or the treatment of lower urinary tract symptoms due to BPH. It combines real-time, multi-dimen- sional imaging, automated robotic technology, and heat-free waterjet ablation technology for targeted, controlled, and immediate removal of prostate tissue. Aquablation therapy offers pre- dictable and reproducible outcomes, indepen- dent of prostate anatomy, prostate size, or sur- geon experience. “Surgical treatments today for enlarged pros- tate often limit patients to choose between either a high degree of symptom relief with high rates of irreversible complications or low degree of symptom relief with low rates of irreversible com- plications,” said Timothy Dean Langford, MD, a provider who performs the treatment at Baptist Health Medical Center-Little Rock and Arkansas Urology. “Aquablation therapy is different, offer- ing a predictable treatment with proven positive outcomes.” Methodist Family Health Foundation Adds NewMembers to Board of Directors Methodist Family Health Foundation announced its 2021 slate of officers and members to its board of directors. New members are: • Linda Barnes of Little Rock. Barnes retired from Entergy in 2012 and is a lifelong United Methodist. She is a member of St. James United Methodist Church in Little Rock. Erin Parker, MBA, CHC, CHPC, CHRC Anton Lishmanov, MD