Oct. 24, 2022 | FAYETTEVILLE — The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) College of Medicine named John Spollen, M.D., arsenic the caller determination subordinate dean for the assemblage successful Northwest Arkansas, effectual Jan. 1, 2023.
Spollen, prof and vice seat for acquisition successful the UAMS Department of Psychiatry, volition win Linda L.M. Worley, M.D., prof of psychiatry, who has served arsenic determination subordinate dean successful Northwest Arkansas since 2018. Worley is stepping into a caller relation arsenic main wellness serviceman for the college.
The UAMS College of Medicine has 62 students successful Northwest Arkansas and precocious added an accelerated three-year aesculapian programme successful the region.
“As an award-winning acquisition person and world-class clinician, Dr. Spollen volition supply beardown enactment for the growing, robust aesculapian acquisition programs successful Northwest Arkansas,” said Susan S. Smyth, M.D., Ph.D., UAMS enforcement vice chancellor and dean of the College of Medicine. “Dr. Spollen’s enactment was a tremendous plus to our assemblage during his work arsenic interim seat of the Department of Psychiatry from June 2021 to February 2022, and helium has held galore different enactment roles since joining the module successful 1999.”
Spollen has earned extended designation for his teaching, mentoring and different enactment with students passim his years with UAMS. These see the COM Educational Innovation Award, 2 Educational Research Awards, the Master Teacher Award, student-selected Red Sash awards annually since 2008 and the Gold Sash Award.
Spollen presently practices astatine the Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System, wherever helium has held respective objective and administrative roles including manager of the Psychiatric Consultation-Liaison Service and the Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) and Ketamine Program for treatment-resistant depression. Spollen received his aesculapian grade from the University of Alabama astatine Birmingham. He completed his residency successful psychiatry astatine the Medical University of South Carolina.
“I’m excited for this enactment accidental with the College of Medicine astatine the UAMS Northwest Regional Campus,” Spollen said. “It has been my imagination since residency to person a vocation successful aesculapian pupil education. I was successful complaint of processing the archetypal program for the field successful 2008, and it has been astonishing to spot the maturation of the programme implicit the years. I look guardant to moving with the full squad astatine UAMS to proceed to amended the acquisition of our students, the aboriginal physicians of Arkansas.”
“Dr. Spollen’s expertise and enactment volition beryllium invaluable arsenic we enactment to amended much aesculapian students successful the Northwest Arkansas region,” said Amy Wenger, MHSA, vice chancellor of the UAMS Northwest Regional Campus. “I worked with Dr. Spollen successful the UAMS Psychiatry Research Institute a fig of years ago, and I americium excited to person him present successful Northwest Arkansas and connected our campus.
UAMS is the state’s lone wellness sciences university, with colleges of Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, Health Professions and Public Health; a postgraduate school; a hospital; a main field successful Little Rock; a Northwest Arkansas determination field successful Fayetteville; a statewide web of determination campuses; and 7 institutes: the Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute, Jackson T. Stephens Spine & Neurosciences Institute, Harvey & Bernice Jones Eye Institute, Psychiatric Research Institute, Donald W. Reynolds Institute connected Aging, Translational Research Institute and Institute for Digital Health & Innovation. UAMS includes UAMS Health, a statewide wellness strategy that encompasses each of UAMS’ objective enterprise. UAMS is the lone big Level 1 trauma halfway successful the state. UAMS has 3,047 students, 873 aesculapian residents and fellows, and six dental residents. It is the state’s largest nationalist leader with much than 11,000 employees, including 1,200 physicians who supply attraction to patients astatine UAMS, its determination campuses, Arkansas Children’s, the VA Medical Center and Baptist Health. Visit www.uams.edu oregon www.uamshealth.com. Find america connected Facebook, Twitter, YouTube oregon Instagram.
The UAMS Northwest Regional Campus includes 288 medical, pharmacy, nursing and wellness professions students, 64 aesculapian and pharmacy residents, 2 sports medicine fellows, and 1,000 community-based faculty. The field has 9 clinics including a student-led session and physical, occupational and code therapy. Faculty behaviour probe to trim wellness disparities. Visit www.uams.edu oregon www.uamshealth.com. Find america connected Facebook, Twitter, YouTube oregon Instagram.
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