John Napier, an expert in process improvement and systems management, has joined the Arkansas Foundation for Medical Care (AFMC) as director of project and systems management. In this role, Napier has been charged with helping AFMC attain its strategic business goals by establishing a companywide project management capability. He will promote system management best practices, maturity and innovation capabilities we believe are fundamental to our success in the rapidly changing health care industry.

AFMC recognizes the need to continually assess and streamline its own processes in keeping with the principles of value, accountability and productivity that it encourages in its health care quality improvement work. Napier brings to this effort a sophisticated expertise developed over the course of distinguished careers in both the military and civilian worlds.

Napier’s 19-year civilian career includes specific experience as a project manager on state-level Medicaid Managed Information Systems (MMIS) projects in Maryland and South Dakota and as a consultant project director for Alabama’s Medicaid agency. He has a Master of Science degree in systems management from the University of Southern California and a number of certifications in project management and software development. In more than 20 years in the U.S. Army, he served in intelligence capacities in Europe, Asia and the Americas, and rose to the rank of major.

Shen Yun - Ancient Culture Reborn

Every legend has its history. Every story has its truths. And the best are rarely forgotten.

For the past 5,000 years, China amassed a diverse legacy of heroes, myths, and values that still resonate in the present. Today, Shen Yun Performing Arts is reviving the essence of traditional Chinese culture in full color on stages around the world. In February, the company will be back at Robinson Center Music Hall for the fourth time.

“It was an extraordinary experience,” said Academy Award-winning actress Cate Blanchett after watching Shen Yun, “the level of skill, but also the power of the archetypes and the narratives were startling.”

Gorgeous backdrops extend the stage, transporting the audience to distant lands and eras. An orchestra that combines Western and Chinese instruments like no other accompanies the dancers with stirring scores.

Ride with Mongolians across endless steppes. Recall the grandeur of an ancient Tang Dynasty palace. Down in the valley, ladies of the Yi ethnic group dance in rainbow skirts by the river. High up in the heavens, celestial fairies trail silken sleeves through the clouds. Resounding drums awaken the dusty plateaus of the Middle Kingdom.

Shen Yun strives to capture the spirit of traditional Chinese culture and its beliefs. Ancient literary classics extol the compassionate, courageous, and loyal, values embodied by the most memorable characters. Thrill in the triumph of the great General Yue Fei; cheer on the Monkey King as he tricks a stubborn foe; and witness how these values still endure in contemporary China.

 Shen Yun bridges past and present in an uplifting, inspiring, and indelible performance.

Shen Yun will be performing at Robinson Center Music Hall in Little Rock on Feb. 27 – 28th at 7:00pm

Visit www.ShenYun2012.com for more information.

UAMS Announces Stanley Reed Endowed Chair to Support Arkansas Emergency Medicine

The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) and friends and family of the late Stanley Reed recently announced the creation of an endowed chair that will support emergency medicine at UAMS and across Arkansas.

The Stanley E. Reed Memorial Chair in Emergency Medicine, Trauma & Injury Prevention will help UAMS build upon existing clinical expertise and training in emergency medicine and trauma system development, and support injury prevention efforts. 

Reed, of Marianna, who died July 15, 2011, was a successful farmer, lawyer and businessman. He also was a devoted, longtime UAMS advocate. He chaired the Board of Visitors for the UAMS College of Medicine, served on the UAMS Foundation Fund Board, the Chancellor’s Circle and the UAMS Northwest Advisory Board. He was also a former member of the University of Arkansas Board of Trustees.

The endowed chair was announced at The Peabody Little Rock during the annual meeting of the Arkansas Farm Bureau, of which Reed served as president from 2003 to 2008. Donations already exceed $245,000 toward the $1 million needed to fund an endowed chair, with the first publicly announced gift of $100,000 coming from Arkansas Blue Cross and Blue Shield.

Thyroid Cancer Researcher Aime Franco, Ph.D., Joins UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute

Thyroid cancer researcher Aime Franco, Ph.D., has joined the Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) as an assistant professor in the College of Medicine’s Department of Physiology and Biophysics.

In addition to research, Franco also serves on the American Association of Cancer Research’s (AACR) Policy and Legislative Affairs Committee that analyzes public issues of concern to cancer researchers and promotes federal funding for biomedical research.

Franco received her postdoctoral degree in Human Oncology and Pathogenesis at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York.

NEA Baptist Clinic names new Director of Clinical Operations

Darrell King, CEO of NEA Baptist Clinic, announces that Glen Rounsaville has been promoted to Director of Clinical Operations.

Rounsaville has worked as the Information Technology Operations Manager at NEA Baptist Clinic for 10 years

He received his Bachelor of Science in Management Information Systems with an emphasis in Operations at Arkansas State University in Jonesboro, AR.

St. Vincent Morrilton Ranked Number One in State

Arkansas Foundation for Medical Care (AFMC) has ranked St. Vincent Morrilton number one for quality among all hospitals in the state. St. Vincent Morrilton is also ranked first place in Arkansas among all Critical Access hospitals.  The rankings are for the first quarter of the year.

St. Vincent Morrilton is a campus of St. Vincent Health System and is part of Catholic Health Initiatives (CHI), a national nonprofit health organization with headquarters in Denver, Colorado. The faith-based system operates in 19 states and includes 73 hospitals; 40 long-term care, assisted- and residential-living facilities; two community health services organizations; and home health agencies.

Sparks Health System Welcomes New Physicians

Sparks Health System is pleased to introduce two new physicians now available by appointment.

John Lane, M.D., and Ralph Daher, M.D., are the two newest additions to Sparks’ award-winning staff of physicians.

Dr. Lane, a board-certified family physician, studied medicine at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School and received advanced training in family practice medicine at the University of Arizona, Tucson.

Dr. Lane joins Dr. Greg Gibbons at the Greenwood Family Medical Clinic in Greenwood.

Dr. Ralph Daher is now a member of Sparks Renal Care Associates team. He is board certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine, and he specializes in kidney disease.

After attending medical school at St. Joseph University, Dr. Daher finished his internal medicine training at Cooper University Hospital in New Jersey and became a Nephrology Fellow at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center in Baltimore.

Dr. Daher joins Drs. J. Lewis Bruton, James Henry and Dana Rabideau at Renal Care Associates in Fort Smith.

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