The Arkansas Times has just published the list of
Arkansas' Best Doctors
and we are proud of the following top vote getters:
Joe Elser, M.D. 83 Pediatrics
Laura Hutchins, M.D. 77 Medical Oncology
Jay Kincannon, M.D. 85 Dermatology
Kris Shewmake, M.D. 84 Plastic Surgery
Greg Sharp, M.D. 84 Pediatric Neurology
Stacie Jones, M.D. 89 Pediatric Allergy
David Becton, M.D. 79 Pediatric Hematology
Richard Jacobs, M.D. 77 Pediatric Infectious Disease
Charles Bower, M.D. 85 Pediatric Otolaryngology
Robert Warren, M.D. 67 Pediatric Pulmonology
Paula Morris, M.D. 83 Pediatric Rheumatology
Sam Smith, M.D. 80 Pediatric Surgeon
Whit Hall, M.D. 73 Neonatal & Perinatal
Brian Hyatt, M.D. 04 Psychiatry
Richard Livingston, M.D. 78 Child Psychiatry
Lewis P. Krain, M.D. 01 Geriatric Psychiatry
Martin Fiser, M.D. 71 Allergy & Immunology
Deborah Bursey, M.D. 92 Endocrinology
Brad Baltz, M.D. 88 Hematology
Robert Bradsher, M.D. 76 Infectious Disease
Lee Archer, M.D. 82 Neurology
Gordon Newbern, M.D. 86 Orthopedic Surgery
James Suen, M.D. 66 Otolaryngology
Paula Anderson, M.D. 79 Pulmonary Disease
James Abraham, III, M.D. 87 Rheumatology
Eleanor Lipsmeyer, M.D. 62 Rheumatology
Chris Cate, M.D. 92 Surgery
Charles Watkins, M.D. 76 Thoracic Surgery
Jack W. Bonner III, M.D., who completed an
internship in Internal Medicine at UAMS in 1966, has been awarded the 2009
Distinguished Mentor Award from the Academy of Distinguished Educators. Dr.
Bonner is a GHS Professor of Clinical Neuropsychiatry and Behavioral
Science, Medical Director of Behavioral Health Services at the Greenville
Hospital System University Medical Center and the Marshall I. Pickens
Hospital, and Chair of the GHSUMC Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral
Medicine in Greenville, South Carolina.
William T. Branch, M.D., F.A.C.S.
'71, who is in Urology private practice in Tampa, Florida, has been
reappointed as Chairman of the University of South Florida Medical Scho9ol's
Surgical Voluntary Faculty. He is currently an Affiliate Professor of
Surgery at the University. He is the Past President of the Florida Chapter
of the American college of Surgeons and Past Chairman of the Board of the
National American College of Surgeons Board of Regents Nominating Committee
while serving as a Governor from Florida. His is also a founding member and
Past President of the Tamp Bay Surgical Society. Dr. Branch is the immediate
Past Chairman of the Board of the Tampa Shriner's Hospitals for Children and
is the recipient of the Arkansas State University Distinguished Alumni
Award. He was recently honored by being names to the Dunklin County Hall of
Honor. He remains active in the community as a civic leader.
Douglas Curran, M.D. '76, has been awarded the
Presidential Award of Merit from the Texas Academy of Family Physicians. Dr.
Curran who has practiced in Athens, Texas, for more than 25 years, was
honored as an advocate of the specialty of family medicine and for his
dedication to his patients.
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Larry Embree, M.D., '57 A
commissioned and completed portrait of me was presented at the recognition
dinner for senior neurology residents in June, 2009. The portrait of the
first head of neurology and neuropathology at Louisiana State University
Health Science Center in Shreveport hangs in the Department of Neurology.
Understandably, to be honored in this way leaves me speechless, but not
aphasic, as I obviously can use written language to this extent. Pardon the
commentary from the neurologist in me! Come see the portrait and ponder over
the pathway that began in a five-story brick building on the east side of
MacArthur Park in September 1953.
Jim Grissom, M.D. 75, Sidney Hayes, M.D. 76, Susan Santa Cruz, M.D. 79,
and Sue Ulmer, M.D. 90, are docs that rock as members of the B-Flats, a rock and roll band that gets folks boogying at fundraisers and other events in central Arkansas. The band was featured in the September 2009 issue of Arkansas New Sixty, a recently launched magazine aimed at readers in their late 50s and 60s. read more and rock on
Ryan Fitzgerald, M.D. 06, now a radiology
resident at UAMS, is one of 35 residents in North America to be selected for
the Siemens AUR Radiology Resident Academic Development Program. The program
provides focused mentorship, leadership and academic development activities
for a group of high-potential second-year residents to help prepare them for
successful careers as leaders in academic radiology.
Scott Gatlin, M.D. '05, has been selected for the
Pediatric Cardiology Fellowship Program at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta
Sibley Heart Center and Emory University School of Me4icine. the three-year
fellowship will include 12 months devoted to clinical, translational or
basic science research. Dr. Gatlin completed his residency in pediatrics at
UAMS and recently moved to Atlanta with his wife Kathy and sons Jack and
Michael.
Maj. Gen. Elder Granger, M.D. 80,has retired after 37 years of
military service. Most recently he oversaw the Department of Defenses
managed health care program as Deputy Director and Program Executive Officer
of TRICARE Management. In addition to numerous military honors, he was named
the College of Medicines 2008 Distinguished Alumnus. Dr. Granger is
settling into retirement in Centennial, Colorado.
Check out his farewell video blog
Jim Grissom, M.D. ’75, Sidney Hayes, M.D. ’76, Susan Santa Cruz, M.D. ’79, and Sue Ulmer, M.D. ’90, are “docs that rock” as members of the B-Flats, a rock and roll band that gets folks boogying at fundraisers and other events in central Arkansas. The band was featured in the September 2009 issue of Arkansas New Sixty, a recently launched magazine aimed at readers in their late 50s and 60s. Read more and rock on.
Paula W. Morris, M.D. '83,
Associate Professor and Chief of the Rheumatology Section at UAMS
was recently elected as a member of the Alpha Omega Alpha by the UAMS AOA
Chapter.
Richard Nix, M.D. '77, is an
orthopedic surgeon who is always on the go. In addition to his practice and
serving as medical director for Camp Aldersgate, he is an avid runner. Dr.
Nix was featured in the August 2009 issue of Little Rock's Soiree magazine.
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College of Medicines 2009
Distinguished Alumnus, D. Brent Polk, M.D., '84, has been named
chairman of the Department of Pediatrics at the Keck School of Medicine of
the University of Southern California (USC) and Chair of Pediatrics and Vice
President of Academic Affairs at Children's Hospital Los Angeles, effective
April 1, 2010.
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B. Lawrence Riggs, M.D. 59, received the
prestigious Legends in Osteoporosis Award, the highest honor from the
National Osteoporosis Foundation, in May. Dr. Riggs became a national leader
in osteoporosis research and treatment while working at the Mayo Clinic in
Rochester, Minn., for 44 years. Read more.
Kris Shewmake, M.D. '84, was
named the best plastic surgeon in Arkansas by his colleagues in 1999. Ten
years later, he's been named again as the top doctor in his field, an honor
he shares with James Yuen of the University of Arkansas for Medical
Sciences. Shewmake, 54, a Pine Bluff native, is a cosmetic surgeon most of
the year. But for around 20 days a year, he's both surgeon and teacher,
correcting sever craniofacial malformations and doing other reconstructive
surgeries in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, with the medical mission Operation New
Life.
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Joel Tumlison, M.D. 05, always focuses on the positive aspects of
life as a physician at a small missionary hospital in Balfate, Honduras. We
enjoy reading about Dr. Tumlison and his family in his monthly newsletter,
the Tumlisonian. The April issue reported on an offshore earthquake that
rattled his bed early one morning. He later learned that the 7.1 quake
caused serious damage and killed six people elsewhere in Honduras. Though it
was a terrible situation, similar sized earthquakes have killed and injured
many more elsewhere, Dr. Tumlison noted. In the same issue he also gave
thanks that one of the two X-ray machines at the Hospital Loma de La Luz was
working again.
The Tumlisons, Joel, his wife Cinthya, and their two girls, have been in
Honduras since late last fall. Joel is participating in a two-year
post-residency program with the World Medical Mission, a branch of
Samaritans Purse. You can contact Dr. Tumlison via e-mail at: thetumlisons@gmail.com.
William Mark White, M.D., FACR '87, of Searcy, AR
has been inducted as a Fellow in the Ameican College of Radiology (ACR). The
induction took place at a formal convocation ceremony during the recent 86th
ACR Annual Meeting and Chapter Leadership Conference in Washington, D.C.
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F. M. Wilson, M.D. '53, will
be honored by the Arkansas State University Alumni Association as a
Distinguished Alumni Award recipient for his work as a noted physician.
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