Arkansas Children's Research Institute (ACRI) has received $3.3 million from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to run a five-year study that will clarify which viral and host factors lead to severe disease among children infected with the virus that causes COVID-19.
The research will improve health outcomes of children worldwide. Josh Kennedy, MD, principal investigator, and Peter Mourani, MD, co-investigator and president of ACRI, will lead this study that will identify common features in children with multiple respiratory viruses, including SARS-CoV-2.
Christian Gross, FACHE, vice president of operations at Baptist Health-Fort Smith and Baptist Health-Van Buren, recently became a Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives, the nation’s leading professional society for healthcare leaders.
CHI St. Vincent announced that oncologist Abhijit Godbole, MD, has joined the team of specialists at the CHI St. Vincent Cancer Center in Little Rock. Godbole began seeing patients on June 17. 
The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) has named Ryan Cork, MSHA, as its next vice chancellor for the Northwest Arkansas Region, effective Sept. 1.