Pooja Motwani, M.D., Joins UAMS Division of Hematology/Oncology

By Nate Hinkel

| LITTLE ROCK – Fellowship-trained hematologist and oncologist Pooja Motwani, M.D., has joined the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS). She is an assistant professor of medicine in the UAMS Division of Hematology/Oncology and sees patients in the seventh floor clinics at the UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute.

A graduate of Grant Medical College in India, Motwani completed her residency in internal medicine at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York.

She served as a supportive care attending physician in the UAMS Myeloma Institute for Research and Therapy from 2007-2010, which was followed by a fellowship in hematology/oncology at Tufts University School of Medicine’s Baystate Medical Center in Springfield, Mass.

Her clinical and research training includes work in benign and malignant blood disorders and solid tumors.

UAMS is the state’s only health sciences university, with colleges of Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, Health Professions and Public Health; a graduate school; a hospital; a main campus in Little Rock; a Northwest Arkansas regional campus in Fayetteville; a statewide network of regional campuses; and eight institutes: the Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute, Jackson T. Stephens Spine & Neurosciences Institute, Harvey & Bernice Jones Eye Institute, Psychiatric Research Institute, Donald W. Reynolds Institute on Aging, Translational Research Institute, Institute for Digital Health & Innovation and the Institute for Community Health Innovation. UAMS includes UAMS Health, a statewide health system that encompasses all of UAMS’ clinical enterprise. UAMS is the only adult Level 1 trauma center in the state. UAMS has 3,485 students, 915 medical residents and fellows, and seven dental residents. It is the state’s largest public employer with more than 11,000 employees, including 1,200 physicians who provide care to patients at UAMS, its regional campuses, Arkansas Children’s, the VA Medical Center and Baptist Health. Visit www.uams.edu or uamshealth.com. Find us on Facebook, X (formerly Twitter), YouTube or Instagram.

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