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Fellowship Available Neonatal-Perinatal Fellowship University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Arkansas Children’s Hospital General Description The Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Residency Program at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences and Arkansas Children’s Hospital is an Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME)-accredited training program requiring three years of training beyond successful completion of an accredited Pediatric Residency. Training takes place at both UAMS and ACH in the Neonatal Intensive Care Units, the ECMO Unit, the Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unit, Labor and Delivery Unit, and the Neonatal Research Laboratories. The training is structured so that neonatal-perinatal residents develop special competence in the management of critically ill newborn infants, and participate in a variety of scholarly and research activities. The overall goal for this program is to provide a comprehensive academic experience that allows the trainees to emerge as independent, well-rounded neonatologists with broad clinical expertise, teaching experience, and demonstrated research accomplishments. First year fellows devote much of their time to research (7 months) along with 4 months of clinical time in the nursery and 1 month high risk obstetrics. Further research occupies most of the second year (8 months) with 3 months clinical and 1 month genetics/metabolic. Research also occupies most of the third year with 7 months given to research along with 3 months clinical, 1 month cardiovascular ICU and pharmacology. Location The Division of Neonatology is located at Arkansas Children’s Hospital and the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. Arkansas Children’s Hospital is a 280 bed quaternary care facility that is the only pediatric medical center in the state and one of the ten largest in the nation. The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences is the state’s only academic medical center and is responsible for training more than 80 percent of the physicians in Arkansas as well as the majority of other medical professionals. A recent UHC study of Intensive Care Nurseries at 30 teaching hospitals resulted in a “Top Performer” rating for the University Hospital Intensive Care Nursery. The study involved newborns under 2 pounds, 3 ounces, who had been admitted due to prematurity or other pre-term diagnostic conditions (such as pulmonary, neurological and gastrointestinal complications). Factors including the medical and nursing management of the infants and the outcomes of that care were also evaluated. Faculty The primary teaching staff for the Neonatal-Perinatal Fellowship Program includes: Richard “Whit” Hall, M.D. Associate Professor, Pediatrics Program Director, Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Medical Director, UAMS Intensive Care Nursery Dr. Hall joined the faculty in 1976. He assumed directorship of the fellowship program in March, 2002. He was certified in general pediatrics by the American Board of Pediatrics in1979. He was certified in Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine in 1995 and recertified in 2001 by the American Board of Pediatrics. He is an associate professor of Neonatology. Dr. Hall has been the director of the UAMS Intensive Care Nursery since 1993. He is now the Vice-Chief of Neonatology and he is co-director for the ECMO program. He serves on the Housestaff Advisory Committee, the P & T Committees for both hospitals and the Patient Care Committee. He has an NIH funded COBRE grant to study the effects of neonatal pain. Ashley S. Ross, M.D. Assistant Professor, Pediatrics Associate Program Director, Neonatal-Perinatal Fellowship
Dr. Ross joined the faculty in 2006. He joins Dr. Hall as the associate director of the fellowship program. He was certified in general pediatrics by the American Board of Pediatrics in 2003. He completed is neonatal-perinatal fellowship at UAMS/ACH in 2006. His research interest during his fellowship was adipocyte differentiation from adult human stem cells and was funded through an intramural grant at the ACH Research Institute. He is an assistant professor in the Department of Pediatrics. His interests include resident education, newborn ethics, advanced ventilator management, and ECMO.
Jeffrey R. Kaiser, M.D., M.A. Associate Professor, Pediatrics Dr. Kaiser joined the faculty in 1997. In addition to his MD, he has a Master’s Degree in the Sociology of Education. He was certified in General Pediatrics in 1994, and was certified in Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine in 1997 and recertified in 2004 by the American board of Pediatrics. He is an associate professor of Neonatology. Dr. Kaiser is a clinician scientist and performs NIH funded clinical research on the development of cerebral autoregulation and its relationship to neonatal brain injury. He is also the site Principal Investigator for the Brain –Cooling for the Treatment of Perinatal Hypoxic-Ischemic Encephalopathy trial. Dr. Kaiser also has extensive experience with database development and designed the Division’s Clinical Neonatal database. He serves on the Arkansas Children’s Hospital Patient Care and Infection Control Committees. Robert McGehee, PhD. Professor, Molecular Biology Neonatal-Perinatal Research Director Dr. McGehee joined the faculty in 1993. He was board certified in Physiology/Biophysics in 1990. His research interest includes biochemical mechanisms responsible for adipocyte, differentiation and the factors that can influence their production and reproduction. Dr. McGehee has maintained active NIH grants and has published extensively in his field. He is responsible for the coordination of research activity for all fellows. Charlotte Hobbs, M.D. MPH Associate Professor, Pediatrics Dr. Hobbs joined the faculty in 1996. She is a general pediatrician with a master in public health. Dr. Hobbs is extensively involved in clinical research and biostatistics. She has large federally funded regional project to study birth defects for this region. She works closely with fellows who are more interested in clinical research. She provides them with a background for data entry and research with large data bases. Other Neonatology Faculty are listed at: ../faculty/Neonatology/neonatology.asp Other Faculty The ACH/UAMS pediatric faculty includes over 195 faculty members representing virtually every pediatric subspecialty including 22 cardiologists, 7 pulmonologists, 4 nephrologists, 16 neonatologists, 7 neurologists, 4 gastroenterologists, 5 infectious disease specialists, 5 hematologist-oncologists, 3 pharmacologists, and 16 emergency medicine physicians. Surgical specialists include 2 cardiovascular surgeons, 2 pediatric surgeons, 2 pediatric neurosurgeons, and 6 pediatric otolaryngologists. There are 29 pediatric anesthesiologists at ACH. For further information and an application, please write to: Whit Hall, M.D. Program Director Neonatal-Perinatal Fellowship Program University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Little Rock, AR 72205 (Phone) 501-603-1255 E-mail: hallrichardw@uams.edu
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Diana Siler Program Coordinator Neonatal-Perinatal Fellowship University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Little Rock, AR 72205 (Phone) 501-603-1255 E-mail: silerdiana@uams.edu
The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer and has a Conrad 30 waiver program. Women and minorities are encouraged to apply.
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