Primary care sports medicine physicians Kyle Arthur, MD, Jake Martin, MD, and Jacob Smith, MD, MPH, recently joined UAMS Health Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine in Northwest Arkansas.
Arthur, who was the very first graduate of the UAMS sports medicine fellowship program in Fayetteville in 2016, is returning home to Arkansas and to UAMS since serving as team physician for the South Carolina Gamecocks at the University of South Carolina. He will now be team physician for multiple University of Arkansas Razorback sports. Smith and Martin are also recent graduates of the UAMS sports medicine fellowship program. Both will now be caring for athletes of all ages as well as overseeing care for multiple Razorback sports.
“We are pumped that these sports medicine doctors who have played here and trained here are committed to all that Northwest Arkansas is today and will be in the future,” said Wes Cox, MD, UAMS orthopaedics section lead.
Kyle Arthur, MD
Arthur is an Arkansas native and fellowship-trained sports medicine physician who earned a Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics and a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry at Harding University in Searcy. He earned a medical degree from UAMS in Little Rock and completed both a family medicine residency and a sports medicine fellowship at UAMS in Northwest Arkansas. Arthur is board-certified in family medicine and sports medicine. He specializes in nonoperative sports medicine and orthopaedic injuries, concussion management, regenerative medicine, and ultrasound-guided injections.
Arthur sees patients at the UAMS Health Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Clinics on Van Asche in Fayetteville and on Monroe Avenue in Lowell.
Jake Martin, MD
Martin is a fellowship-trained sports medicine physician who earned a Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics and a Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry at the University of Tulsa in Oklahoma. He earned a medical degree from St. George’s University School of Medicine in Grenada and completed a family medicine residency at UAMS in Northwest Arkansas, where he served as chief resident. He recently completed a sports medicine fellowship at UAMS in Northwest Arkansas.
Martin sees patients at the UAMS Health Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Clinics on Van Asche in Fayetteville and on Monroe Avenue in Lowell.
Jacob Smith, MD, MPH
A former pitcher for the University of Arkansas Razorbacks baseball team, Smith is a fellowship-trained sports medicine physician who earned a Bachelor of Science in Kinesiology with honors at the University of Arkansas, where he graduated magna cum laude. He earned a medical degree and a Master of Public Health degree from UAMS in Little Rock. He completed a family medicine residency at the perennially top-ranked John Peter Smith Hospital Network in Fort Worth, Texas. He recently completed a sports medicine fellowship at UAMS in Northwest Arkansas. Smith founded 1and1, which is a faith-based nonprofit organization that develops baseball infrastructure and enhances sports medicine throughout Nicaragua and Colombia. Through these efforts, he was the third North American appointed to the World Baseball and Softball Confederation’s Medical Commission and focuses on Latin America outreach.
Smith sees patients at the UAMS Health Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Clinics on Van Asche in Fayetteville and on Monroe Avenue in Lowell.
The UAMS Northwest Regional Campus includes 356 medical, pharmacy, nursing and health professions students, 76 medical and pharmacy residents, and two sports medicine fellows. The campus has 13 clinics including internal and family medicine, a student-led clinic, orthopaedics and sports medicine, behavioral health/psychiatry, geriatrics, genetics counseling, transplant follow-up, and physical, occupational, and speech therapy. Faculty conduct research to reduce health disparities.