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News from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
John P. Shock,
M.D., Receives
Caduceus Club
Distinguished Faculty Award
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JUNE 27, 2003 | The
Arkansas Caduceus Club has
honored John P. Shock, M.D., with its 2003
Distinguished Faculty Award.
Dr. Shock is professor and chair of the
Department of Ophthalmology in the
College
of Medicine at the University of
Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS),
executive vice chancellor of UAMS, and
director of the Harvey and Bernice Jones
Eye Institute.
”He performs much the same service for
UAMS as the sun does for the planet earth:
he radiates energy,” Executive Associate
Dean Richard P. Wheeler, M.D., said of Dr.
Shock.
The Distinguished Faculty Award recognizes
individuals who have made outstanding
contributions to the health of all people
through teaching, basic research, clinical
research, or health services
administration and has demonstrated the
high principles of the medical profession. |
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John P. Shock, M.D., acknowledges applause upon
receiving the Distinguished Faculty Award. Click
on photo for larger view.
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Dr. Shock joined the college as chair of ophthalmology in 1979, when there was
only one other full-time faculty member in that department. He has expanded the
department to 19 full-time faculty members and has increased patient visits from
about 6,000 annually to almost 20,000. He also established the Jones Eye
Institute.
From October 2000 to January 2002, Dr. Shock was interim dean of the College of
Medicine. Chancellor I. Dodd Wilson, M.D., subsequently appointed him executive
vice chancellor; in that role, Dr. Shock has been responsible for several
important projects.
Dr. Shock is a graduate of West Point and Duke University School of Medicine. He
completed an ophthalmology residency at Walter Reed Army Medical Center and a
fellowship in retinal surgery at the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute in Miami.
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College of
Medicine: http://www.uams.edu/COM/
Department of Ophthalmology:
http://www.uams.edu/jei/home.htm
UAMS Honors: http://www.uams.edu/today/2003/040303/UAMS%20HonorsWalkers.htm
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