Dr. Frederick R. "Rick" Bentley -- a University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences liver and transplant surgeon at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences -- has been named chairman of the Department of Surgery at the College of Medicine.
Bentley, 66, has been running the department on an interim basis since April 2015.
Bentley joined the UAMS Department of Surgery in 2006 as a professor and as vice chairman for education. UAMS recruited him from the University of Louisville, where he taught for 19 years, including 13 years as medical director of the Jewish Hospital Transplant Program in Louisville. He worked in similar jobs at the University of Maryland medical school in Baltimore.
Since 2010, Bentley has been General Surgery Residency Program director. He received the College of Medicine's Residency Educator Award in 2013 and again this year. He is chairman of the college's Graduate Medical Education Committee.
Bentley received his medical degree from Louisiana State University Medical Center in New Orleans. That's where he also interned, completed his residency in general surgery and served as chief administrative resident. He completed a research fellowship and a clinical fellowship in transplant surgery at the University of Minnesota Medical School in Minneapolis.
His salary is $554,510, according to a UAMS official.
Metro on 05/05/2016