Gregory Lawson Smith, M.D., Joins UAMS as Pain Management Specialist
| G. Lawson Smith, M.D., has joined the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) as a fellowship-trained pain management specialist.
He sees patients at the UAMS Health Pain Clinic in the Jackson T. Stephens Spine & Neurosciences Institute, first floor, 501 Jack Stephens Drive, Little Rock.
To make an appointment, call (501) 686-8818. For more information, visit UAMSHealth.com/expertise/pain-management.
The Pain Clinic team treats back pain, arthritis, cancer, complex regional pain syndrome and other forms of chronic pain and offer the latest treatments and technologies. The multidisciplinary team combines the skills of pain management physicians, physical therapists, physiatrists (physicians specializing in physical medicine and rehabilitation), neuroradiologists, neurologists, psychologists and neurosurgeons.
Smith also will be an assistant professor with the Interventional Pain Department and is certified in anesthesiology and pain medicine.
Smith completed medical school at UAMS as well as residency, where he was chief resident. In 2019 he became the first multidisciplinary chronic pain fellow at 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.###