Jesse D. Abeler, DO, has joined the team of orthopedic surgeons at Bowen Hefley Orthopedics.
Abeler completed and received a Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine degree from Rocky Vista University College in Parker, Colo. He completed an orthopedic residency at St. Anthony’s Hospital in Oklahoma City and then went on to complete a hand fellowship at the University of Massachusetts.
Jessica Snowden, MD, has been named chief of the Division of Pediatric Infectious Disease in the College of Medicine Department of Pediatrics at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS).
Mercy has begun accepting patients at a new rehabilitation unit inside Mercy Hospital Northwest Arkansas that helps adults who have experienced a loss of function or disability due to injury or illness.
The unit is being operated under a management agreement with Kindred Hospital Rehabilitation Services.
Two New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine (NYITCOM) at Arkansas State University faculty members have received grants that will fund research projects at A-State’s Arkansas Biosciences Institute (ABI) for the next two years.
The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), Arkansas Children’s, Baptist Health, and Proton International (PI) have signed a letter of intent to bring proton therapy — an alternative to radiation therapy for treating cancer — to Arkansas.
The proton treatment center will be the first in Arkansas and one of only about 40 in the country. It will be located at the UAMS Radiation Oncology Center.
Proton therapy precisely targets tumors, sparing the surrounding healthy tissues.
