So far, 19 people have applied to be the next chancellor at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock. They are:
• F. Daniel Armstrong, interim senior associate dean for medical faculty affairs, professor and executive vice chairman in the Department of Pediatrics and director of the Mailman Center for Child Development at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. Armstrong holds a Doctor of Philosophy in clinical psychology and completed a clinical internship in pediatric psychology at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center.
• Alexzander A. A. Asea, a visiting professor and consultant tumor immunologist at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston and former professor and chairman of the Department of Microbiology, Biochemistry and Immunology at the Morehouse School of Medicine and Grady Hospital in Atlanta. He also holds a Doctor of Philosophy in medical microbiology and immunology from the University of Gothenburg in Sweden.
• Ali Cyrus Banan, who said in his application that he is an executive vice president of education, research and medical affairs for the University of Windsor. A representative for the Windsor University School of Medicine in St. Kitts and Nevis said that last year Banan was an academic dean but that he no longer works there.
• Dr. A. Wesley Burks, executive dean of the University of North Carolina School of Medicine and the Curnen distinguished professor in the university's Department of Pediatrics. Burks earned his medical degree from UAMS and completed an internship and residency program at Arkansas Children's Hospital before becoming chief resident there in 1983. His son, Chris, is an attorney in Arkansas, and his daughter, Sarah, is Gov. Asa Hutchinson's education policy adviser.
• Dr. Herbert Cushing, chief medical officer at Temple University Hospital in Philadelphia and professor of clinical medicine at Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University. He has also served as the chief medical officer at Indiana University School of Medicine. Cushing earned his medical degree from the State University of New York-Upstate and later completed a residency program in internal medicine at the University of Virginia Hospital. After that, he completed a fellowship in infectious disease in the University of Washington.
• Dr. Arthur Feldman, Laura H. Carnell professor at Temple University School of Medicine, where he also served as executive dean from 2011 to 2016. He has also worked as chief academic officer of the Temple University Health System from 2011 to 2016. Feldman received his medical degree from Louisiana State University's School of Medicine and finished residency and fellowship programs at The Johns Hopkins Hospital.
• Dr. Danny Jacobs, executive vice president, provost and dean of the School of Medicine at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston. He has previously worked as chairman of Departments of Surgery at Duke University Medical Center and at Creighton University School of Medicine in Omaha, Neb. The Camden native earned his medical degree from Washington University in St. Louis and completed his residency in general surgery at the University of Pennsylvania.
• Denis Kinane, dean of the University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine and professor of pathology and clinical periodontology there. He earned his bachelor's degree up to a fellowship at the Royal College of Surgeons at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. He has also been a fellow at the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons in Glasgow.
• Dr. SreyRam Kuy, Medicaid medical director at the Louisiana Department of Health and associate professor of surgery at Louisiana State University-Shreveport. Kuy is the former assistant chief of general surgery and former director of the center for innovations in quality, outcomes and patient safety at the Overton Brooks VA Medical Center. She completed residencies at the University of Texas Health Sciences Center at San Antonio and the Medical College of Wisconsin before receiving a fellowship at Yale University's School of Medicine.
• Dr. John Langell, vice dean for innovation at the University of Utah School of Medicine and executive director of the Center for Medical Innovation at the university's health sciences center. He earned his medical degree and a doctorate degree from Drexel University in Philadelphia, a master's in public health from the University of Texas Medical Branch and a master's in business administration from the University of Utah.
• Dr. Richard Larson, executive vice chancellor of the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center. Earning his medical degree from Harvard University, Larson went on to complete residency programs in anatomic pathology from Washington University/Barnes Hospital and clinical pathology from Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
• Dr. Paul Low, professor of pulmonary and geriatrics/gerontology at the University of Mississippi Medical Center and associate chief of staff at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Jackson, Miss. He received his medical degree from the State University of New York-Upstate, where he also became medical chief resident and a research fellow.
• Dr. Curtis Lowery, chairman of UAMS' Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, director and founder of the Center for Distance Health; director of the Women and Infant's Health Service Line; and director of the Antenatal and Neonatal Guidelines, Education and Learning System, all at UAMS. He also developed Angel Eye, a webcam technology that allows parents with an Internet connection to watch their babies being treated in UAMS' neonatal intensive care unit.
• Dr. Frederick Meyers, associate dean for precision medicine and professor at the University of California Davis School of Medicine. He has also worked as executive director of medical education and academic planning at the University of California, Merced. He received his degrees and completed his training within University of California schools.
• Anthony Munroe, a sociology professor at DePaul University in Chicago and a former president of Malcolm X College, part of City Colleges of Chicago.
• Dr. Steve Nelson, dean of Louisiana State University's Health Sciences Center School of Medicine in New Orleans. He earned his medical degree from McGill University in Canada and finished residency programs and fellowships at Johns Hopkins.
• Dr. Allen Ross, professor and chairman of Tropical Medicine and Infectious Diseases at Griffith University in Australia. He received his medical degree from the University of Queensland in Australia in 2010 and completed fellowships in the United Kingdom and Australia.
• Dr. David Stern, Robert Kaplan executive dean for the University of Tennessee's College of Medicine and vice chancellor for clinical affairs and the University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center in Memphis. Earning his medical degree from Harvard, Stern has held the dean's title at medical schools at the University of Cincinnati and the Medical College of Georgia.
• Michele Wright, of North Little Rock, senior vice president of sales and marketing for Pathology Partners Toxicology, a laboratory services company.
Metro on 05/21/2017