Jennifer Smith Appointed UAMS Associate General Counsel
| LITTLE ROCK — Jennifer L. Smith has been appointed as associate general counsel in the Office of General Counsel at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), effective March 2.
Smith has worked at UAMS since 2011, when she began as director of conflict of interest. She became director of risk management in 2013. In her new position, she will handle health law issues and policies.
Prior to working at UAMS, Smith was a health law attorney for Friday, Eldredge and Clark LLP in Little Rock, and a law clerk for Arkansas Supreme Court associate justice Donald Corbin.
She earned her law degree from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock in the William H. Bowen School of Law. She is a member of the American Health Lawyers Association, American Bar Association, National Association of College and University Attorneys, Arkansas Bar Association and American Society for Healthcare Risk Management.
Smith is also a registered nurse and certified emergency nurse. Prior to her law career, she worked at various emergency departments in Arkansas.
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 3,275 students, 890 medical residents and fellows, and five dental residents. It is the state’s largest public employer with more than 12,000 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.###