Educating the Next Generation of Internal Medicine Specialists
The Department of Internal Medicine is one of the largest departments in the College of Medicine at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. The department is home to approximately 150 full-time faculty members, 81 residents, and 68 fellows serving two residency programs and twelve fellowship programs. Dr. Edward T.H. Yeh, a cardiologist and physician/scientist, is a pioneer in the field of Onco-cardiology. Our vice chairs are Dr. Alice P Alexander, Vice Chair of Education; Dr. Mario Schootman, Vice-Chair of Mentorship and Innovation; Dr. Carol Anderson, Acting Vice Chair and Chief of Medicine at CAVHS and Kelley Suskie, Vice Chair for Department Administrator. Each of our twelve academic divisions is led by a division director who reports to the Chair. Each division also leads their respective services at the John L. McClellan Memorial Veterans Hospital, which is connected to UAMS Medical Center by an enclosed sky bridge.
News & Announcements
UAMS is First in Arkansas to Use New Technology to Remove Valve Infection, Debris Without Surgery
A cardiologist at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) is the first physician in Arkansas to use a new device to remove infectious vegetation from a woman’s heart valve in a 45-minute minimally invasive procedure.
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Dr. Gray Inducted
Dr. Franklin John Gray Jr., Assistant Professor in the Division of Hospital Medicine, was inducted as the 2022-2023 President of the Arkansas Chapter of the Society for Hospital Medicine during the chapter’s spring meeting. Congratulations and kudos to Dr. Gray for his service to UAMS, hospitalists and their patients across the state.
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UAMS-led International Study Provides Insight on Maternal Thyroid Function, Risk of Gestational Hypertension
Results of an international four-year project led by Spyridoula Maraka, M.D., M.S., an assistant professor of medicine at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), were published this month in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology medical journal, clarifying an association between maternal thyroid function and a risk of gestational hypertension.
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Rising Star in Cardiovascular Research – Subhi J. Al’Aref, M.D.
Dr. Al’Aref took an unconventional route to his current faculty position. After completing his residency and fellowship, he left to work at an imaging institute at Cornell in New York instead of taking a procedural position as an attending faculty member. In his time at the imaging institute, he worked on CT imaging, non-invasive imaging, […]
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