John P. Shock Receives Distinguished Faculty Award
LITTLE ROCK – John P. Shock, M.D., has received the 2003 Distinguished Faculty Award in the College of Medicine at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) from the Arkansas Caduceus Club.
| Shock is professor and chair of the Department of Ophthalmology in the college, executive vice chancellor of UAMS, and director of the Harvey and Bernice Jones Eye Institute. The Distinguished Faculty Award recognizes individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the health of all people through teaching, basic research, clinical research, or health services administration and has demonstrated the high principles of the medical profession. Shock joined the college as chair of ophthalmology in 1979, when there was only one other full-time faculty member in that department. He has expanded the department to 19 full-time faculty members and has increased patient visits from about 6,000 annually to almost 20,000. He also established the Jones Eye Institute.
From October 2000 to January 2002, Shock was interim dean of the College of Medicine. UAMS Chancellor I. Dodd Wilson, M.D., subsequently appointed him executive vice chancellor; in that role, Shock has been responsible for several important projects.
The Arkansas Caduceus Club is the organization of alumni of the UAMS College of Medicine, current and former house officers, current and former faculty, all physicians practicing in Arkansas, and friends of the college.