Meet the Director
![Kapil Arya, M.D. Kapil Arya, M.D.](https://medicine.uams.edu/pediatrics/wp-content/uploads/sites/31/2020/09/Arya_Kapil-234x327.jpg)
Child Neurology Residency Program Director
Meet the Faculty
![Sarah Cobb, M.D.](https://medicine.uams.edu/pediatrics/wp-content/uploads/sites/31/2020/09/Cobb_Sarah-Beth-245x327.jpg)
![Paul J. Drake, M.D. Paul Drake, M.D.](https://medicine.uams.edu/pediatrics/wp-content/uploads/sites/31/2020/09/Drake_Paul-Joseph_web-245x327.jpg)
![Diana I. Escalona-Vargas, Ph.D. Diana I. Escalona-Vargas, Ph.D.](https://medicine.uams.edu/pediatrics/wp-content/uploads/sites/31/2022/12/Escalona-Vargas_Diana-Irazu_full-218x327.jpg)
![Tara Johnson, M.D. Tara L Johnson, MD](https://medicine.uams.edu/pediatrics/wp-content/uploads/sites/31/2020/09/MicrosoftTeams-image-245x327.jpg)
![Tim Koscik, Ph.D. Tim Koscik, Ph.D.](https://medicine.uams.edu/pediatrics/wp-content/uploads/sites/31/2022/11/Koscik_Timothy_full-300x327.jpg)
![Christopher Paul Manbeck, M.D. C. Paul Manbeck](https://medicine.uams.edu/pediatrics/wp-content/uploads/sites/31/2020/09/Manbeck_Christopher-Paul-245x327.jpg)
![Adrianne M. Parkey, M.D. Adrianne M. Parkey, M.D.](https://medicine.uams.edu/pediatrics/wp-content/uploads/sites/31/2021/06/Parkey_Adrianne-Marie_web-245x327.jpg)
![Debopam Samanta, M.D. Debopam Samanta, M.D.](https://medicine.uams.edu/pediatrics/wp-content/uploads/sites/31/2020/08/Samanta_Debopam_web-245x327.jpg)
![Gregory Sharp, M.D. Gregory B. Sharp](https://medicine.uams.edu/pediatrics/wp-content/uploads/sites/31/2020/09/Sharp_Gregory-Baker-245x327.jpg)
![Aravindhan Veerapandiyan, M.D.](https://medicine.uams.edu/pediatrics/wp-content/uploads/sites/31/2020/09/Veerapandiyan_Aravindhan-245x327.jpg)
![William Walters, M.D.](https://medicine.uams.edu/pediatrics/wp-content/uploads/sites/31/2020/09/Walters_William-David-245x327.jpg)
Other Personnel
Other personnel within the division include two APRNs, six specialty nurses, child neurology resident coordinator/office manager and three administrative staff.
Other supporting pediatric faculty at ACH/UAMS includes over 200 members representing virtually every pediatric subspecialty, including cardiologists, geneticists, intensivists, neonatologists, infectious disease specialists, hematologists-oncologists, emergency medicine physicians, nephrologists, gastroenterologists, pulmonologists, radiologists including neuro-radiologists and rehabilitation physicians as well as multiple surgical specialists including pediatric neurosurgeons.
Previous child neurology residents have successfully gone on to a variety of destinations both in academic and private practice including Arkansas, Texas, Mississippi, Louisiana, Florida, California, Washington D.C as well as others.