Angela Norman, D.N.P., Named Director of Centers on Aging at UAMS Donald W. Reynolds Institute on Aging
| LITTLE ROCK — Angela Norman, D.N.P., has been named the director of the Centers on Aging, a program of the Donald W. Reynolds Institute on Aging at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS).
Norman succeeds Claudia Beverly, Ph.D., R.N., who retired last year.
The Reynold Institute’s network of seven Centers on Aging seeks to improve the quality of life for older adults and their families in the areas they serve by providing older Arkansans with local access to specialized educational and clinical care.
Angie Norman, D.N.P.
“Angie Norman has demonstrated exceptional leadership and educational skills in her work with the Centers on Aging,” said Jeanne Wei, M.D., Ph.D., Reynolds Institute executive director. “Her leadership already is playing a central role in the effort to further align each center with the missions of the institute as a whole. She will foster the connections necessary at the local level to improve health for all Arkansas seniors.”
In 2000, Norman earned her master’s degree in nursing science at UAMS, and in 2011, her doctor of nursing practice degree in the Geriatric Program at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis.
Since January 2016, Norman has served as an associate director of the Centers on Aging, and from 2011 to 2018 she served as the center director of the South Arkansas Center on Aging in El Dorado. From 2007 to 2011, she was the director of Nursing and Continuing Education and the director of Community Outreach at the UAMS South Regional Campus in El Dorado.
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.###