Renee Bornemeier, M.D.
Dr. Renee Bornemeier serves as Executive Associate Dean of Faculty Affairs and Development for the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) College of Medicine. In this role, she leads faculty development initiatives including mentoring, leadership development, wellness culture, and work-life integration, while overseeing promotion and tenure, faculty merits and awards, compensation plan development, and personnel matters.
Dr. Bornemeier has dedicated her entire career to UAMS and Arkansas Children’s Hospital (ACH), building a legacy of clinical excellence, teaching, and faculty leadership. A pediatric cardiologist specializing in fetal cardiology, she has provided outstanding clinical care for children across Arkansas alongside decades of teaching and mentorship for medical students, residents, and fellows.
She earned her medical degree from UAMS in 1988 and completed her pediatrics residency at UAMS and Arkansas Children’s. She completed a fellowship in pediatric cardiology at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia before returning to UAMS in 1994 as an Instructor in the Department of Pediatrics. She rose through the faculty ranks and has served as Professor in the Division of Pediatric Cardiology since 2009.
Her clinical leadership roles at Arkansas Children’s have included Medical Director of the ACH Heart Station (1995–2008), Director of the Bale Fetal Heart Center (since 2009), and Vice Chief of Staff (2017–2018) before becoming Chief of Staff. She also directed the development of the Cardiac 3D Print Lab at Arkansas Children’s.
Dr. Bornemeier has long championed her faculty colleagues, serving as Vice Chair for Faculty Affairs in the Department of Pediatrics since 2017, as Assistant Dean for the College of Medicine leading faculty affairs for all faculty at Arkansas Children’s. She has served on the Pediatrics Promotion and Tenure Committee since 2013, and previously served on the College of Medicine Promotion and Tenure Committee from 2012 to 2016, chairing the committee in 2015–2016.