Residency Faculty - Medical Director, Northwest
Family Medical Center
Dr. Ronald Brimberry graduated from the University of Arkansas for Medical
Sciences (UAMS) College of Medicine in 1981, and completed his residency at
the UAMS Department of Family and Preventive Medicine (DFPM) Family Medicine
Residency Program in Little Rock in 1984. At the same institution he
completed an academic fellowship in 1985. An Assistant Professor from
1985-1991 involved in the DFPM's Predoctoral Education Division, Dr.
Brimberry received tenure and was promoted to Associate Professor at UAMS in
1991. From 1992-1996 Dr. Brimberry served as the residency Program Director
at the UAMS Family Medicine Residency, and served as the Associate Director
from 1996-1997. From October 1997 through May 2000 Dr. Brimberry was in
full-time private practice including obstetrics at the St. Vincent
MetroCentre Health Clinic in Little Rock. Dr. Brimberry returned to
academics in June 2000 to join the faculty of the AHEC-NW Family Medicine
Residency Program as an Associate Professor in the UAMS Department of Family
and Preventive Medicine.
In 2002, Dr. Brimberry became the Medical Director of the Northwest Family
Medical Center, the second Family Medicine center for the AHEC-NW Family
Medicine Residency Program. He also serves as the coordinator of the
resident conference curriculum at AHEC-NW. Dr. Brimberry received the
Outstanding Faculty Teaching Award from the UAMS Little Rock Family Medicine
residency graduating class of 1997. Dr. Brimberry counts obstetrics as one
of his major clinical interests, and performs and teaches obstetric
ultrasonography plus many office-based procedures in the residency program.
Since 2005 he has served as the Chairman of the Medicine Department of
Northwest Medical Center-Springdale.
Dr. Brimberry was born in Fort Hood, Texas and was raised all over the
southwest as part of an Army family, and prior to coming to Arkansas lived
in southern Maryland. An Arkansas resident since coming to Searcy, Arkansas
to attend Harding College in 1971, Dr. Brimberry considers Arkansas his
home. His interests include collecting U.S. coins, fishing and enjoying his
wife and family. He and his wife Catherine have a blended family of four
daughters and one son; they live in Fayetteville.
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, AHEC Northwest
2907 E Joyce St., Fayetteville, AR 72703
Director,
Robert R. Gullett, Jr., M.D.
Main Office: 1-800-825-7961
Fax: 1-479-521-8723
RONALD BRIMBERRY, M.D.