Dr. Lauren Gibson-Oliver, Program Director of the UAMS Little Rock FM residency, has won the UAMS Clinical Emerging Faculty Mentoring Excellence Award for 2024.
Dr. Steven Webber, COM Dean, presented Dr. Gibson-Oliver with a crystal award at a ceremony in May. This award is presented annually to a junior faculty member who has made exemplary contributions to the professional development of faculty, staff, and students.
Taren Swindle PhD, Associate Professor in the DFPM Research and Evaluation Division (RED), has won the UAMS Winthrop Rockefeller Cancer Center Director’s Spotlight Award for 2024.
Dr. Swindle said she is honored to be selected for the award and to be involved in cancer prevention in Arkansas through her work in RED.
Dr. Leslie Stone, DFPM Assistant Professor and Director of the Family Medicine Clerkship, has been accepted for the 2024-2025 Executive Healthcare Leadership Institute.
A collaboration between the Walton School of Business and UAMS, the program provides inspirational and practical knowledge that academic medicine leaders need to succeed. Only 20 to 25 faculty members are accepted yearly for this honor.
The Arkansas Medical Society presented this year’s awards during their annual membership meeting and dinner gala on May 17.
Those receiving Faculty Academic Excellence Awards include Dr. Stephen Foster (Jonesboro) and Dr. Julea Garner (Baptist/UAMS NLR).
Resident winners include Dr. Amrutha Denduluri (Little Rock), Dr. Alexis House (Texarkana), Dr. Hamilton Newhart (Baptist/UAMS NLR), and Dr. Michael Page (Ft. Smith).
More details and photos are available on our Facebook page.
The Sturgis Foundation Grant program of the College of Medicine is providing $31,146 to support a project titled “Increased Prescription and Utilization of Continuous Glucose Monitoring” and led by Dr. Shashank Kraleti.
His team on this project includes Dr. Stephen Foster, Kodi Liddell PharmD, BCPS, Dr. Lakshmi Menon (IM/Endocrinology), Kanna Lewis PhD, Andrea Hooten APR, MBA, and Marybeth Curtis RN, BSN, WOCN.
Dr. Tatiana T.C. Lino, a PGY1 resident in the UAMS Little Rock FM residency program, won a $1,000 scholarship from the AAFP to attend the Physician Health and Well-Being Conference in May in Arizona.
Dr. Lino says that the conference was a great experience that gave her new ideas to share with the residency’s Wellness Committee, of which she is a member.
This year’s Harold H. Hedges III MD Endowed Scholarships in Family Medicine have been awarded to three UAMS medical students who matched into FM residency programs throughout Arkansas.
The winners are listed below with a sampling of comments from their applications.
KENDALL BOOKER (UAMS Rural Track Program, Crossett): “I love the diversity and flexibility of Family Medicine. I could see myself returning to southeast Arkansas, practicing full scope Family Medicine and pouring back into the same community that built me.”
CHRISTOPHER BRAZEAL (Baptist/UAMS NLR): “I hope to be a Family Medicine doctor in a small town that is helping people live their best lives and maybe teaching future practitioners if things work out that way!”
TONY ROLLER (UAMS Northwest Fayetteville): “With deep-rooted connections to Northwest Arkansas, I am eager to contribute to the wellness of my community and to serve this community long after residency.”
Dr. Shaletha Jones, a 2017 graduate of the UAMS Little Rock Family Medicine residency program, is featured in the Spring 2024 issue of the Journal of the Arkansas Medical Society.
Dr. Jones is a District 5 Trustee for the organization, and she is profiled on page 129 of the journal. Dr. Jones graduated from the UAMS LR FM residency program in 2017.
BTW, Dr. Bala Simon is a District 8 Trustee and a 2013 graduate of the LR FM residency program.
Go to https://www.arkmed.org/about/physician-leaders/ to see all of the Physician Leaders for the society. We are proud of our graduates serving as leaders in Arkansas!
The DFPM was recognized in a big way at the Dean’s Honor Day on April 16.
Jessica Bursk received the Staff Excellence in Education Award, which was presented by Dr. Leslie Stone.
Dr. Tabasum Imran received the Clinical Excellence in Quality and Safety Award, presented by Dr. Shashank Kraleti.
Dr. David Kelley received the Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine Award, presented by Diane Jarrett EdD.
Lorraine McKelvey PhD received the Excellence in Research Award, presented by Nikki Edge PhD.
We also have five promotions to celebrate. Dr. Sheldon Riklon is being promoted to Professor. Those being promoted to Associate Professor are Dr. Tabasum Imran, Diane Jarrett EdD, Dr. Michael Macechko, and Dr. Julia Roulier. These promotions formally take effect on July 1.
The UAMS College of Medicine invested Shashank Kraleti MD in the Dr. Algernon Sidney Garnett Chair in Family Medicine during an April 10 ceremony. From left: Steven Webber MD (COM Chair), Dr. Kraleti, and Cam Patterson MD, MBA (Chancellor).
Dr. Kraleti is chair of the UAMS Department of Family and Preventive Medicine in the College of Medicine and serves as the director of primary care clinical services, providing oversight for clinical and population health initiatives for Arkansas. Further, he is the senior vice president for UAMS Health. Click for more details.
Congratulations, Dr. Kraleti!
