Elizabeth C. Gath, M.D., Joins UAMS Specializing in Primary Care for Women
| LITTLE ROCK – Elizabeth C. Gath, M.D., has joined the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) as an internal medicine doctor specializing in primary care for women.
Gath, a clinical associate professor in the UAMS College of Medicine, earned her medical degree from the Centro de Estudios Universitarios Xochiacalco in Ensenada, Mexico. Gath then completed an additional year of clinical education at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York.
Board certified in both internal medicine and pediatrics, Gath did her internal medicine/pediatrics residency at Cook County Hospital in Chicago where she then became associate director of a multidisciplinary, comprehensive, integrated clinic for women and children affected by HIV. During that time she also helped conduct four missions to Romania where she provided HIV education to health care personnel.
In 1994, Gath became an associate professor at Albany Medical College in New York, and most recently was in a private practice that specialized in women’s health care needs.
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 hospital; a statewide network of regional centers; and seven 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, the Donald W. Reynolds Institute on Aging and the Translational Research Institute. Named best Little Rock metropolitan area hospital by U.S. News & World Report, it is the only adult Level 1 trauma center in the state. UAMS has more than 2,800 students and 775 medical residents. It is the state’s largest public employer with more than 10,000 employees, including about 1,000 physicians and other professionals who provide 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.