Orthopaedic Oncologist Corey Montgomery, M.D., Joins UAMS
| LITTLE ROCK – Corey Montgomery, M.D., has joined the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) as an assistant professor of orthopaedics. He will see patients with bone cancer, soft-tissue cancer and metastatic cancer to bone in the Orthopaedic Oncology Clinic at the UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute.
Montgomery received his medical degree from the University of Tennessee School of Medicine in Memphis, Tenn., followed by his residency in the UAMS Department of Orthopaedic Surgery.
In 2009, he completed a Musculoskeletal Oncology Fellowship at the University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami.
Montgomery is a past recipient of both the UAMS Orthopaedic Outstanding Resident Teaching Award and the Carl L. Nelson Leadership Award.
He is an associate member of the Orthopaedic Research Society and a member of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgery and the American Orthopaedic Association Emerging Leaders Program.
UAMS is the state’s only comprehensive academic health center, with colleges of Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, Health Related Professions and Public Health; a graduate school; a 540,000-square-foot hospital; a statewide network of regional centers; and six institutes: the Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute, the Jackson T. Stephens Spine & Neurosciences Institute, the Myeloma Institute for Research and Therapy, the Harvey & Bernice Jones Eye Institute, the Psychiatric Research Institute and the Donald W. Reynolds Institute on Aging. UAMS has 2,775 students and 748 medical residents. It is the state’s largest public employer with more than 10,000 employees, including nearly 1,150 physicians who provide medical care to patients at UAMS, Arkansas Children’s Hospital, the VA Medical Center and UAMS’ Area Health Education Centers throughout the state. Visit www.uams.edu or uamshealth.com.