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Residency Program
Faculty
| Geoffrey
Goldsmith, M.D., M.P.H. assumed the Chair of the Department in 1990.
He is committed to supporting an excellent residency program that
will prepare family physicians to meet the challenges of medical
practice in this time of rapid change. He has a special
clinical interest in cancer prevention, quality improvement, and
behavioral medicine. His research involves the use of quality
improvement principles to improve outpatient clinical care outcomes.
In this regard, he has ongoing quality improvement projects on
diabetes care and colorectal cancer prevention. He serves on a
number of institutional and family medicine boards. He is the
director of research and the director of the preventive/family
medicine fellowship for the Department. In his role as
department chair, he is responsible for the overall governance of
the Department including strategic planning, faculty supervision,
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| Daniel Knight, M.D.,
Residency Program Director, joined the faculty in 1999. Dr. Knight is Board Certified
by the American Board of Family Practice. He was in private family practice for 6 years
and was a full time Emergency Physician for 5 years prior to assuming the role of Program
Director. Dr. Knight is an active member of the Arkansas Academy of Family Practice, the
UAMS GME Committee, the AHEC GME Committee and the UAMS Minority Recruitment and Retention
Committee. He is a member of the American Academy of Family Practice, the
Association of Family Practice Residency Directors and the Society of Teachers of Family
Medicine. He has completed the National Institute for Program Director Development
Fellowship and is a question writer for the Core Content Review of Family Medicine course.
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C. Philip Hudson,
M.D. joined the faculty in 2005 after a varied career in family
medicine. Until 1999, Dr. Hudson was a solo practitioner in
the San Antonio, TX area. After closing his solo practice, he
joined a primary care group treating primarily geriatric patients.
As a Clinical Associate Professor at UT-Health Sciences Center, San
Antonio, he was an active medical student preceptor. He
decided to join the department faculty due to his love of teaching.
Dr. Hudson serves as a clinic and inpatient preceptor and resident
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Jamie Howard, M.D. is
the Medical Director of the Family Medical Center which is the
clinical teaching facility for the residency program. She directs
the Preventive Occupational and Environmental Medicine Division and UAMS
Student and Employee Health Services. She also oversees the clinical
laboratory and is director of the Department's Quality Improvement (QI)
program. Women’s health,
Continuous Quality Improvement, Practice Management
and Medical Informatics are areas of personal interest and
expertise. She is certified by the American Board of Family
Practice.
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David A.
Nelsen, Jr., M.D
practiced
medicine in rural Arkansas for five years and served on the
faculty at the University of Minnesota before joining the
Department. He completed a faculty development fellowship and a
Master of Science in Family and Community Medicine at the
University of Minnesota. He is an active clinician and is
certified by the American Board of Family Practice. Dr. Nelsen
is the Assistant Medical Director for Clinical Informatics for
the UAMS campus. In this role he is the primary physician
representative for informatics issues relative to inpatient and
outpatient information systems.
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| Arlo Kahn, M.D.
is professor of Family Medicine and associate professor in the
Health Policy and Management Department of the UAMS College of
Public Health. Dr. Kahn holds the Harold Silberbush, M.D.
Endowed Chair in Family and Community Medicine. His special
interests include nutrition, prevention and health advocacy.
Dr. Kahn, who is certified by the American Board of Family Practice,
has extensive teaching experience in undergraduate, graduate and
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Kent McKelvey
Jr., M.D. joined the faculty in 2003. Dr.
McKelvey has completed two residencies. He completed his
Family Medicine residency at the AHEC-Texarkana and his Medical
Genetics residency at the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill. He is board certified in both Family Medicine and Medical
Genetics. In addition to precepting in the clinic and on the
inpatient service, Dr. McKelvey is the director of Predoctoral
education in Family Medicine. He is also the Director of Cancer
Genetics Services at the Arkansas Cancer Research Center, where
he holds clinic weekly. He is Course Director of the College of
Medicine genetics course and teaches in the master's level
genetic counseling program at the UAMS College of Public Health.
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Martha Lauster,
M.D. joined the faculty of the DFPM in 2005. An Arkansas
native, she graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Medical School and completed her residency in Family Medicine at the
University of Wisconsin-Madison as well. She practiced in Wisconsin
for 2 years before returning to Little Rock, where she is happy to
be cheering for the Razorbacks again. Special areas of interest
include reproductive health, obstetrical care, lactation, primary
and secondary prevention, and resident education. She is board
certified by the ABFM.
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Sarita Prajapati, M.D., M.P.H. joined the faculty in August
2004. She completed a fellowship in faculty development and public
health at UAMS. She is now an Assistant Professor and the Associate
Director for Pre-Doctoral Education in Family Medicine. She completed her residency at
Saint
Louis University-Belleville Family Practice Program and is
board certified in Family Medicine. Special areas of interest
include complementary and alternative medicine and patient education.
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Charles W.
Smith, M.D., a nationally known family physician, serves as Executive
Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs for the UAMS College of Medicine and
Medical Director of the UAMS Medical Center. As a part-time
faculty member, he serves as a preceptor in the clinic, attends on the
inpatient service, and provides clinical care to his patients in the department. |
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Voluntary Faculty
Many physicians in the Little Rock area serve as voluntary preceptors in the
Family Medical Center. These physicians are highly motivated to teach family practice
residents about their specialty. In addition, the resident may choose en elective
experience in the preceptor’s office.
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Residency Program
Manager
Diane Jarrett, Ed.D., joined the department in 2008 as the
Residency Program Manager. Most of her professional career has
revolved around higher education, including a long tenure as
Director of Testing Services and Student Life Research at UALR.
Prior to her UALR years, she worked at UAMS and at Arkansas
Children’s Hospital. Additionally, she has made presentations
around the U.S. and Canada on topics such as overcoming test
anxiety, earning college credit through nontraditional means, and
maintaining civility in the classroom. Her master’s degree is in
journalism (from UALR) and her doctorate is in higher education
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Residency Coordinator
Stacey Riddling is the Residency Coordinator who provides
administrative support for the residency program. Applicants who
need more information about the program should contact Ms. Riddling.
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