Mercy will invest $500 million with phase two’s projects including a cancer center, emergency department and isolation room expansion, additional clinic locations, more outpatient care facilities, and nearly doubling the current number of primary care physicians and specialists.
August 8, 2022
En Huang, PhD, an associate professor at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences’ Fay W. Boozman College of Public Health Department of Environmental Health Sciences, has received a three-year, $1 million research grant from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA).
August 8, 2022
Ryan Southard, MD, recently joined the team at Baptist Health Pediatric Clinic-Conway.
A native of Conyers, Georgia, Southard earned his medical degree from Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) in Charleston, S.C. He completed residency training at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences/Arkansas Children’s Hospital in Little Rock.
Southard is board-certified in general pediatrics by the American Board of Pediatrics and is a fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics.
August 1, 2022
Laura Lester, MD, has joined the team of leading physicians at the CHI St. Vincent Primary Care Clinic in Hot Springs, which cares for adults and children, helps manage chronic conditions, and helps patients coordinate care between specialists. Lester is seeing patients at the clinic, located at 1707 Airport Road.
August 1, 2022
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded $11.5 million in Phase II funding to the Arkansas Children’s Research Institute (ACRI) based on the successes of the Center for Translational Pediatric Research (CTPR), established five years ago. The center applies a cutting-edge systems biology approach to understand how diseases like cancer form in children’s developing bodies.
Under the leadership of Alan Tackett, PhD, associate director for basic research at ACRI and director of the CTPR, the center is at the forefront of this type of research.
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