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  5. Wayne Bryant Jr., M.D., M.S.

Wayne Bryant Jr., M.D., M.S.

 

Dr. Bryant is the Associate Director of the residency program, having served as Assistant Director since joining the faculty in 2022. His faculty appointment is as Assistant Professor, and he is co-chair/faculty sponsor for the Walk with a Doc program. In 2026, he was chosen to serve on the Board of Directors for the Association of Family Medicine Residency Directors. In 2025, he won the Chair’s Award for Recognition of Excellence in Service and Professionalism. In 2024, he was accepted into the STFM Leadership through Scholarship Fellowship Program and was recognized for his mentorship talents in an article in the Journal of Graduate Medical Education. Dr. Bryant won the UAMS Excellence in Mentoring Award in 2023 and participated in a campus-wide panel on the subject of increasing the number of Black men in medicine. While in our residency program, he served as Chief Resident and won the Outstanding Resident Award, the STAR Professionalism Award, and the 2021 National Institute of Health/National Medical Association Academic Medicine Fellow/Traveling Award. He earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of South Florida and completed medical school at the American University of Antigua. Dr. Bryant’s clinical interests include improving health literacy and health equity for the underserved and historically marginalized communities, along with women’s health, lifestyle medicine, and preventive medicine. When he’s not working, he enjoys spending time with family and friends, watching sports, traveling, and playing pool.

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