Dr. Nelsen — long-time Family Medicine faculty member (since 1995), and graduate of the UAMS Little Rock Family Medicine residency program (1981) and UAMS College of Medicine (1978) — retired from a full-time status in September 2024. He will continue precepting in the clinic for one half-day each week and also will work with the informatics fellows at ACH. Dr. Nelsen’s other plans include traveling, tutoring math and science at Central High, building another guitar, and playing more music. He has been playing at local nursing homes several times per month. Dr. Nelsen built an impressive career in Family Medicine as an informaticist, teacher, mentor, administrator, and clinician in Arkansas for the most part, with some time in Minnesota. His Arkansas experience includes service in DeQueen, Arkansas, where he was Chief of Staff, Chief of Obstetrics, and a private practitioner. Along the way, he spent time as a Fellow in Faculty Development and Clinical Investigation at the University of Minnesota, where he earned a master’s degree in Family and Community Medicine. He won the UAMS Educational Excellence Award and the DFPM Family Medicine Outstanding Teaching Award in two years, back to back. He also won the DFPM Master Educator Award in 2022 — and this not a full recounting of his accomplishments by any means. We are glad that he will still be working with us on a part-time basis.