The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) has received initial accreditation from the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education to form the Dr. Joseph H. Bates Preventive Medicine Residency Program, a blend of public health and general preventive medicine.
It will be the only preventive medicine residency program in Arkansas.
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Editor’s Note: The results of Operation Stork Speed may prove useful not because it revealed a poisoned formula supply, but because it tested an alarming claim against evidence. The result was not a scandal. It was a reminder that oversight matters, trace contaminants exist across the food system, and public health leaders should be as willing to reassure parents as they are to frighten them.
The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) College of Medicine invested Jorge Saucedo, MD, MBA, professor and chair of the Department of Internal Medicine, during an April 7 ceremony.
Saucedo returned to UAMS in 2025 after a national search that began when Edward T.H. Yeh, MD, chair of the department since 2020, announced his retirement.
Eight nurses from Baptist Health were recently honored by the Arkansas Center for Nursing (ACN).
Rhonda Finnie, DNP, MBA, APRN-CNP, AGACNP-BC, ANVP-BC, ASC-BC, director of advanced practice at Baptist Health, received an Arkansas Nursing Legacy Award from the ACN, while seven others were recognized as part of the organization’s annual “40 Nurse Leaders Under 40” list.
