Dr. William E. Golden of UAMS to Discuss “Quality Improvements in Health Care” Nov. 11
| FORT SMITH – William E. Golden, M.D., of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), will discuss “Quality Improvements in Health Care” at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 11, in Fort Smith, Ark. The lecture at The Hall, 200 N. 13th St., will be for medical professionals only. For more information, contact Mary Beth Meek at (479) 452-2077, ext. 1042, or Erica Monday at (501) 686-7831.
Golden is a professor in the UAMS Colleges of Medicine and Public Health as well as vice president for quality improvement of the Arkansas Foundation for Medical Care, a member of the board of directors of the National Quality Forum, a member of the editorial board of the International Journal for Quality in Health Care and a member of the American Medical Association (AMA) Clinical Performance Measurement Committee. He is also a fellow of the American College of Physicians (ACP), a member of the ACP Board of Regents, the chairman of the ACP delegation to the AMA, and the chairman of the ACP Ethics and Human Rights Committee.
Golden graduated from the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston and completed a residency in internal medicine at Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke’s Medical Center in Chicago. He received the Morris Fishbein Fellowship of the Journal of the American Medical Association and is a former Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania. He served as the director of the Division of General Internal Medicine within the UAMS Department of Internal Medicine for 19 years.