Please join us in welcoming these recent additions to the College of Medicine faculty.
Department of Anesthesiology
Robert (Trey) Burch III, M.D.
Robert (Trey) Burch III, M.D., has joined the Department of Anesthesiology as an Assistant Professor in the Division of Interventional Pain. Dr. Burch received his medical degree at UAMS. He completed his transitional year internship at William Beaumont Army Medical Center in El Paso, Texas, and his anesthesiology residency in the San Antonio Uniformed Services Health Education Consortium at Brooke Army Medical Center.
Dr. Burch continued his training with a fellowship in regional anesthesiology and acute pain medicine (RAAPM) at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, where he most recently worked as an attending anesthesiologist and Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology for the Uniformed Services University. Dr. Burch’s leadership posts while at Walter Reed included Chief of Regional Anesthesia, Anesthesia Quality Assurance Officer, Assistant Program Director of the RAAPM Fellowship, and Co-Investigator for the Defense & Veterans Center for Integrative Pain Management.
Christopher Maranto, M.D.
Christopher Maranto, M.D., has joined the Department of Anesthesiology as an Assistant Professor. Dr. Maranto received his medical degree from Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center in Shreveport. He completed his anesthesiology residency at UAMS and continued his training with a fellowship in interventional pain management at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB).
Dr. Maranto served as an attending physician at UAB and, most recently, as a pain management physician at Conway Regional Medical Center.
Department of Pathology
Saradhi Mallampati, Ph.D.
Saradhi Mallampati, Ph.D., has joined the Department of Pathology as an Assistant Professor and Section Medical Director for Molecular Genetic Pathology at Arkansas Children’s. After receiving a Doctorate of Veterinary Medicine and Master’s in Veterinary Public Health, Dr. Mallampati earned his Ph.D. in molecular medicine at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, India. He completed post-doctoral fellowship training in the Department of Laboratory Medicine at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, where he went on to serve as an Instructor in the Molecular Testing Development.
Dr. Mallampati was promoted to an Assistant Professor at MD Anderson, serving in the Genomics Test Development Laboratory within the Molecular Diagnostics Lab. In 2021, Dr. Mallampati joined St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, where he served as Technical Director for the Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory and was instrumental in validating several state-of-the-art testing assays. Dr. Mallampati is certified as a High-Complexity Laboratory Director (HCLD) by the American Board of Bioanalysis. He has authored more than 20 publications including works in scientific journals including Blood and the Journal of Molecular Diagnostics.
Department of Radiology
Sadia Sajid, MBBS
Sadia Sajid, MBBS,has joined the Department of Radiology as an Instructor in the Division of Emergency Radiology providing overnight coverage. Dr. Sajid received her medical degree from Rawalpindi Medical University in Pakistan. She completed her residency in radiology and fellowship in emergency radiology at Hamad Medical Corporation in Doha, Qatar.