Maurice Rigsby Named UAMS Vice Chancellor for Institutional Relations

Sept. 5, 2017 | Sept. 5, 2017 | Maurice Rigsby has been appointed vice chancellor for institutional relations at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS).

Rigsby, an attorney, came to UAMS in 2014 as a government relations liaison and was promoted to assistant vice chancellor. He replaces Cherry Duckett, who retired July 1.

Prior to coming to UAMS, Rigsby was the senior assistant attorney general for legislative affairs with the Arkansas attorney general’s office where he managed the attorney general’s policy agenda while working with members of the state Legislature and the governor’s office.

Rigsby has served as the deputy director and regulatory counsel for the Arkansas Oil and Gas Commission, as a staff attorney for the Arkansas Bureau of Legislative Research and as a private attorney in a Pine Bluff law firm.

Rigsby graduated from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville School of Law in 2003. During law school, he worked as a law clerk for Walmart and as an NCAA and Southeastern Conference compliance assistant for the Department of Athletics at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville.

“Since coming to UAMS, Maurice has assumed increasing responsibility for UAMS’ complex issues in health care and higher education, working closely with the governor’s office, members of the Arkansas General Assembly and the Arkansas congressional delegation,” said UAMS Interim Chancellor Stephanie Gardner, Ed.D., Pharm.D. “We’re confident the wealth of knowledge and experience he brings to this new role will continue to benefit UAMS.”

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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