The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Institute for Community Health Innovation will train 80 doulas over the next year through a comprehensive program administered by the institute and other partners, including Ujima Maternity Network and Birthing Beyond.
The program is available to individuals throughout Arkansas through a scholarship that covers the full cost of the training, which is spread across six months.
The Arkansas Council on Behavioral Health will host a Mental Health Day at the Capitol from 9 a.m.-12 noon in the rotunda of Arkansas’s state capitol on Jan. 29. The purpose of this day is to highlight successes and raise awareness of the need for and challenge in comprehensive behavioral health services to meet the population health needs in Arkansas.
Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders is scheduled to speak at the event, which will include presentations from various behavioral health service providers who work daily to meet the needs of Arkansans.
John R. Montgomery, MD, and Tsukasa Nakamura, MD, PhD, have joined the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) as liver, kidney, and pancreas transplant surgeons.
Both will also serve as assistant professors in the College of Medicine Department of Surgery.
Northwest Health welcomed Tiffany Weathers, MD, to its medical staff. Weathers specializes in obstetrics and gynecology and is accepting new patients at Northwest OB/GYN – Willow Creek, located at 5501 Willow Creek Drive, Suite 202, in Springdale.
Weathers has been in practice for more than 15 years.
She received a medical education at Universidad Autonoma de Guadalajara School of Medicine in Guadalajara, Mexico. She then completed an obstetrics and gynecology residency at The State University of New York in Albany, New York. She is bilingual in English and Spanish.
Arkansas Children's Northwest has received a $2 million challenge grant from the J.E. and L.E. Mabee Foundation to support its historic expansion project.
This funding marks the continuation of a 37-year partnership between Arkansas Children's and the Mabee Foundation, with total grants exceeding $8 million over the decades.
