HJLR Nov/Dec 2018

60 NOV / DEC 2018  I  Healthcare Journal of little rock Hospital Rounds UAMS Orthopaedic Surgeon Bumpass Among Nation’s Top Young Spine Professionals for 2018 David Bumpass, MD, an orthopaedic surgeon at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sci- ences (UAMS), was named one of the nation’s out- standing young spine care providers by the North American Spine Society’s  SpineLine magazine in its inaugural 20 Under 40 list honoring spine pro- fessionals under the age of 40. Bumpass, 37, is featured in the September/ October 2018 issue. The list, selected by the mag- azine’s review team, included 21 members follow- ing a tie in application scoring. “Dr. Bumpass is an outstanding member of our department,” said C. Lowry Barnes, MD, chair of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery in the UAMS College of Medicine. “He excels in the clinic and operating room and in both basic and clinical research, as well as in educating and men- toring students and residents. He is already a clin- ical leader and was recently named co-director of the spine clinical services. We are fortunate to have him as our partner, and our state is lucky to have him here.” Bumpass and the 20 others spotlighted this year were recognized throughout the society’s 33rd Annual Meeting in Los Angeles held September 26-29 with a poster at the magazine’s booth and several tweets throughout the week. More than 3,000 spine professionals from the organization’s 8,000-plus members attended. In addition to treating adult and pediatric patients, he serves as director of clinical research for the Orthopaedic Surgery Department. Bumpass also collaborates with local emer- gency medical services in Little Rock to improve their emergency spine trauma care in the field. The joint effort has strengthened the relationship between physicians and local EMS crews and edu- cated first responders on how physicians treat spi- nal injuries after patients arrive at the hospital. “I have been able to learn more about ques- tions and challenges the paramedics face in the field when managing spine trauma,” he said in his 20 Under 40 feature in the magazine. “Our hos- pital system has worked hard to streamline and improve protocols for spinal trauma management once patients hit the door, identifying delays and improving multi-team care.” Bumpass was earlier recognized by the society in 2014 with its Young Investigator Translational Research grant for “The Role of Myeloid-Derived Suppressor Cells and T-Lymphocytes in Human Vertebral Metastasis: A Prospective Pilot Study.” “That enabled me to complete some excit- ing research in the role of the immune system in facilitating spinal metastasis,” Bumpass said. The $50,000 grant went toward research that is nearly complete. “The results suggest that there is an under- appreciated role that the immune system plays in allowing the development of metastatic can- cer in bone,” Bumpass said, adding that healthy immune cells within the bone seem to be inhib- ited from preventing cancerous cells from spread- ing into the bone. CHI St. Vincent Names Dr. Peter Emanuel Director of Oncology Services CHI St. Vincent has named Dr. Peter Emanuel as its new director of oncology services as CHI St. Vincent works to expand its oncology program and cancer treatment options in the community. Emanuel comes to CHI St. Vincent from the Uni- versity of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, where he was director of the Winthrop P. Rockefeller Can- cer Institute. The internationally renowned oncol- ogist is a leading researcher of adult and pediat- ric forms of leukemia. “Dr. Emanuel is recognized worldwide for his scholarship, his leadership, and his commitment to excellence,” said Chad Aduddell, CEO of CHI St. Vincent. “He is an asset to the CHI St. Vincent team and to this community, and we are glad to have him as we work to grow the oncology pro- gram at CHI St. Vincent and provide our patients with excellent and compassionate care.” Emanuel, a Wisconsin native, attended medi- cal school at the University of Wisconsin. He com- pleted an internship and residency at the Univer- sity of Alabama at Birmingham Hospital. After a fellowship in hematology/oncology at UAB, he was a professor in the Department of Medicine, Genetics, and Biochemistry at UAB. He was acting director of UAB’s Comprehensive Cancer Institute before going to UAMS in 2007. His research has been consistently funded by the National Institutes of Health for more than 25 years, and he is routinely named to the Castle Connolly “Best Doctors in America” list. Emanuel will begin accepting new appoint- ments in late September. His clinic will be located in the Parkview Building on the Infirmary campus, 1 St. Vincent Circle, Suite 220, in Little Rock. Baptist Health Heart Institute Welcomes Drs. Jerson Mendoza, Kapil Yadav Drs. Jerson Mendoza and Kapil Yadav, both interventional cardiologists with Arkansas Car- diology, recently joined the Baptist Health Heart Institute-North Little Rock. After receiving medical degrees and finishing residencies, the physicians became fellowship- trained in cardiology and interventional cardi- ology. Mendoza completed fellowships at the University of Miami/Jackson Health System in Miami Florida and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in Bronx, New York, respectively. David Bumpass,MD Peter Emanuel, MD