Shaw-Devine Joins UAMS Division of Cardiovascular Medicine
| LITTLE ROCK – Allison Shaw-Devine, M.D., has joined the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) as an assistant professor within the College of Medicine’s Division of Cardiovascular Medicine.
Shaw-Devine has an extensive background at UAMS, where she graduated medical school in 1995 and completed an Internal Medicine residency, including her last year as chief resident, in 1999. She also was a Fellow of Cardiovascular Diseases at UAMS from 1999 to 2002.
She was previously in private practice at Arkansas Cardiology, P.A. and most recently had served as medical director and solo practioner at Arkansas Cardiac Care, P.C. since 2005.
Shaw-Devine is a board member and former president of the American Heart Association’s central Arkansas affiliate and has served as the organization’s co-chair of the Go Red for Women drive.
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. It is the only adult Level 1 trauma center in the state. UAMS has 2,836 students and 761 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.