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2018 AMS Annual Session May 4 & 5 DeGray Lake , Arkadelphia
SVMIC Seminar May 4 During the AMS Annual Session DeGray Lake , Arkadelphia
Registration materials for both events will be mailed in the near future .
Annual AMS Insurance Conference
October 2 & 3 – Little Rock Wyndham Hotel
October 11 – Fayetteville Hilton Garden Inn
October 18 – Jonesboro ASU Convocation Center
Arkansas Pain Management Symposium
Saturday , April 28 , 2018
Fred W . Smith Conference Center , 12 th Floor , Jackson T . Stephens Spine & Neurosciences Institute UAMS Campus , Little Rock Visit UAMS . cloud-cme . com for more details .
This symposium is designed to provide high quality continuing education to an interprofessional audience in order to improve chronic pain treatment .
POCAHONTAS – Thomas Bernard DeClerk , MD , passed away January 10 , 2018 . He received a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry and a Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of Arkansas and interned at St . Vincent Infirmary in Little Rock . He enter the Army and served in the Army Air Corps and United States Air Force , where he graduated from the School of Aviation Medicine and became a flight surgeon during World War II . He later earned an underwater medicine certification . After leaving the service , Dr . DeClerk returned to Pocahontas , where he practiced general medicine , surgery , and obstetrics for 37 years , delivering approximately 2,500 babies . Dr . DeClerk served as president of the Randolph County Medical Society and was a member of the Arkansas Medical Society and a member of the Fifty Year Club . He also served as chief of staff of Randolph County Medical Center .
MOUNTAIN HOME - Maxwell G . Cheney , MD , 84 , passed away February 8 , 2018 . Dr . Cheney was a well-known physician in Mountain Home for over 52 years . He was instrumental in improving health care in Mountain Home . Some of his accomplishments include starting the second medical clinic in Mountain Home , starting a renal dialysis unit , placing the first pacemaker at Baxter Regional Medical Center , serving as Chief of Staff several times at BRMC , and recently being honored by the Mountain Home Education Foundation for dedicated community service to the sports program . Dr . Cheney enjoyed hunting — especially bow-hunting — and was an avid skeet shooter . He was a member of the Arkansas Medical Society and a member of the Fifty Year Club .
LITTLE ROCK – James Clay Wellborn , Jr ., MD , 64 , passed away January 23 , 2018 . Dr . Wellborn attended UAMS for medical school , where he was a Barton Research Scholar , a member of Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society , and a recipient of the Lange Book Award and the E . Forest Ellis Award for Outstanding Surgical Student . After completing a general and vascular surgery residency at UAMS , he established his surgical practice in Stuttgart , Arkansas , where he continued growing his family and made lifelong friends .
He moved his practice to Little Rock in 1988 , and has been performing general and bariatric surgery for the past 30 years . Dr . Wellborn was the first surgeon in the state to perform laparoscopic gallbladder surgery . He was a member of the Arkansas Medical Society .
LITTLE ROCK – Gilbert S . Campbell (“ Gil ”), MD , passed away January 9 . He was 94 . From 1949 to 1950 , he was a basic sciences instructor and head of the experimental laboratory at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington , D . C . From 1950 to 1951 , he served as captain and surgeon in the 3rd Battalion of the 7th Infantry Regiment of the United States Army Medical Corps in Japan and Korea , where he earned two Silver Stars , two Bronze Stars and a Purple Heart . He was highly regarded by his fellow infantrymen as a fearless and highly competent surgeon . In 1965 , Campbell became a professor and chairman of the Department of Surgery at UAMS where he served for 18 years . He remained as a professor emeritus until his retirement in 2000 . Among his numerous departmental accomplishments , his greatest joy was the recruiting , training , and mentoring a legion of outstanding residents who went on to successful medical careers of their own , mostly in Arkansas . He initiated the first thoracic surgery residency at UAMS and was inducted in 2004 into the inaugural class of the UAMS Hall of Fame . He was a member of the Arkansas Medical Society and the Fifty Year Club .
LITTLE ROCK – Walter S . “ Walt ” Mizell , MD , 103 , passed away February 25 , 2018 . As a young man , he joined the Marine Corps , as he did not weigh enough to get into the U . S . Army . He was a Marine for five years , and one of the ships to which he was assigned was the Battleship USS Arkansas . A degree from Ouachita Baptist University followed . The patriot served his country as an infantry officer during World War II , followed by carrying out his ambition to go to Medical School at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences . For the next 20 + years , he dedicated himself to medicine , serving as a physician and as medical director of the Arkansas State Hospital in Benton .
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