Faculty

Dr. Bowman directs the M.H.A. program and serves as a professor of Health Policy and Management department at UAMS College of Public Health. He advises and mentors students, teaches, conducts research, and enjoys academic and community service. Dr. Bowman teaches healthcare finance, communications, healthcare systems, and research methods. His experiences enrich his teaching as he integrates case studies, scenarios, and real-world issues and challenges into the classroom.

Dr. Bowman’s research focuses on improving outcomes for time-critical conditions such as trauma. He collaborates with surgeons, nurses, residents, and medical students to design and implement research that will lead to improved outcomes for Arkansans and the public in general. He is widely published and has received multiple honors and awards for his work including the exceptional teaching award and faculty innovation award from Bloomberg School of Public Health, and Leon S. Robertson Career Development Chair in Injury Prevention award.

Dr. Bowman enjoys hiking and has climbed Mount Kilimanjaro twice with his son. Outdoors activities are his mainstay, and he enjoys gardening, skiing, and cycling. Dr. Bowman became a professor to share his experience with students and to further our knowledge through research to reduce unnecessary death and disability from trauma and trauma care.

Yasthil Jaganath, M.D., MPH is the site director for the UAMS Family Medicine Clinic and is an assistant professor with the UAMS Department of Family and Preventive Medicine,  and practices in Little Rock, Helena, and the House Calls Program. He was awarded the STAR Professionalism Award and the STFM (Society of Teachers of Family Medicine) Resident Teacher Award. He is a graduate of the Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam Medical College, University of Mauritius, and completed his residency in Family Medicine at UAMS, where he served as  chief resident. He has a Master of Public Health with a concentration in Humanitarian Health, and a Certificate in Gerontology from the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. He also completed a post-doctoral fellowship in HIV and Tuberculosis with the UNAIDS Center for the AIDS program of Research in South Africa, where he worked with the pediatric population in the city he grew up in. Dr. Jaganath holds licensure in Arkansas and South Africa. He is passionate about providing personalized care to his patients. During his free time, he enjoys spending time with his family and friends.

Dr. Lautredou serves as the Medical Director of the Outbreak Prevention and Response Branch and Zoonotic Section at the Arkansas Department of Health. She maintains an active medical license in Arkansas and is triple board-certified in Internal Medicine, Infectious Disease, and Public Health and General Preventive Medicine. She earned her medical degree from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in 2018 and completed her residency in Internal Medicine at Duke University Hospital in Durham, North Carolina. She subsequently completed a combined fellowship in Infectious Disease and Preventive Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles. Dr. Lautredou has contributed to the scientific community through oral and poster presentations at medical conferences nationwide. She is the primary author of two scientific articles and has co-authored an additional article published in The Journal of Infectious Diseases. 

Dr. Murphy is a board-certified occupational medicine physician who works in private practice in Little Rock, AR.  He served in the United Air Force as a Flight Surgeon, Occupational Medicine practitioner and as an orthopedic technician.  He also worked at NASA, Johnson Space Center as a flight surgeon providing terrestrial and orbital medicine to astronauts in all phases of mission training and spaceflight.  Most recently he served as the Chief of Aerospace and Occupational Medicine at Little Rock Air Force Base, AR.  His pre-medical education was from Park University with a bachelor’s degree in information technology with a MBA in information Systems from Touro University.  He graduated from Midwestern University, Arizona College of Medicine in 2012, completed a Trauma surgery intern year at University of California, Davis and Residency in Occupational and Environmental Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco which included obtaining a Master of Public Health at University of California, Berkeley.  He has published articles in the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, spoken at scientific meetings, and given lectures related to his training both in private and federal settings.  His practice involves evaluation and treatment of workplace injuries, DOT/FAA examinations, occupational surveillance and preventive exams, pre-hire physicals, IME evaluations, and Fit for duty examinations.  His patients come from a multitude of backgrounds that include state, federal, city and county employees, healthcare, construction, manufacturing, and agriculture.  Dr. Murphy holds an active medical license in the State of Arkansas. 

Aaron M. Wendelboe, Ph.D., MSPH, is a professor and the Vice-Chair of Education in the Department of Epidemiology in the Fay W. Boozman College of Public Health at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS). An internationally recognized epidemiologist and public health leader, Dr. Wendelboe is an alumnus of the CDC’s Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) and served with distinction in the uniformed Public Health Service Commissioned Corps. 

Dr. Wendelboe has dedicated his career to improving health outcomes by bridging academic public health and public health practice. His expertise includes the surveillance of and response to infectious disease epidemics, with a specific focus on vaccine epidemiology for COVID-19, influenza, and pertussis, respectively. Dr. Wendelboe has made significant scientific contributions to the field of venous thromboembolism (VTE) and serves on the World Thrombosis Day Steering Committee to raise global awareness.

Collaboration is central to Dr. Wendelboe’s work. He is currently partnering with Cherokee Nation Health Services to address critical health disparities in Native communities, including those related to Long COVID and Hepatitis C prevention. He is also actively engaged with the Arkansas Department of Health to mentor and train the next generation of public health professionals.

Prior to joining the College, Dr. Wendelboe served as faculty of the Hudson College of Public Health at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences for 16 years. During his tenure, he held several leadership roles, including Chair of the Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology. He also served as Interim State Epidemiologist at the Oklahoma State Department of Health during the first 5 months of the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. Wendelboe brings this unique synthesis of federal, state, and academic experience to UAMS, ensuring that the next generation of public health leaders are equipped to address emerging health challenges.