UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute Foundation Elects New Board Members

By Susan Van Dusen

Hoover_Barbara_9-4-14 (1)

Barbara Hoover

Lenka Horakova

Lenka Horakova

Remmel Dickinson

Remmel T. Dickinson

Mandy Macke

Mandy Macke

Carol Rodgers

Carol Rodgers

Lloyd Garrison

Lloyd Garrison

|  

 

Trip Strauss

Trip Strauss

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

LITTLE ROCK — The Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute Foundation at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) announces the election of its new board members:

Remmel T. Dickinson, of Little Rock, producer with Big Rock Productions, LLC

  • Lloyd Garrison, of Little Rock, president and CEO of CDI Contractors
  • Barbara Hoover, of Little Rock
  • Lenka Horakova, of Little Rock, director of business development – Europe at the Arkansas Economic Development Commission
  • Mandy Macke, of Fayetteville, associate director of the Willard and Pat Walker Charitable Foundation
  • Carol Rodgers, of Little Rock
  • Trip Strauss, of Little Rock, senior vice president – investments at Merrill Lynch

Horakova and Strauss, a married couple, hold one board seat. Win Rockefeller Jr. is the 2016-2017 board chair. Members are elected for three-year terms and may serve up to three terms total.

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.

###