Dr. Bala Simon has been elected to a one-year term as President of the Board of Directors of the National Association of Chronic Disease Directors.
Dr. Bala — who has teaching and clinical appointments in the UAMS colleges of Public Health and Medicine — is serving a one-year term that began in September for the 7,000-member organization, which advocates and educates with a goal to promote leadership and capacity to address chronic disease prevention and control efforts across the nation.
He is a board-certified Family Medicine physician, an epidemiologist, and the Deputy Chief Medical Officer at the Arkansas Department of Health (ADH). He joined the DFPM in 2013 and currently serves as an adjunct Clinical Associate Professor and precepts residents and medical students in the FMC. Dr. Bala also is board certified in Obesity Medicine and Lifestyle Medicine. He graduated from the UAMS Little Rock Family Medicine residency program in 2013.