Six New Members Join UAMS Reynolds Institute on Aging Advisory Board

Sept. 8, 2020 | LITTLE ROCK — Six new members have joined the Advisory Board of the Donald W. Reynolds Institute on Aging at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS): Larry Alman, of Little Rock, is board chair.

The new Advisory Board members are:

• Rebecca Farrow, of Little Rock, is a former real estate agent and former social worker at the Ozark Guidance Center in Springdale and Protective Services for Children and the Elderly in DeRidder, Louisiana.
  

  Kathleen Brown

  

  Peggy Clark

• Jane Rogers, of Little Rock, is a former member of the University of Arkansas Board of Trustees, Board of Directors for National Chi Omega as well as former National Chi Omega Foundation president, and Simmons Bank Board of Directors, among others.
• Robert Fincher, M.D., of Little Rock, is a well-known radiologist who is a former U.S. Navy physician, medical director of Baptist Breast Center, director of breast imaging at UAMS and medical director of the UAMS Breast Center before retiring in 2015.
• Peggy Clark, of Hot Springs, is the owner of Clark Timberlands, LLLP in Arkadelphia. She is a member of several state and local forestry organizations and has been recognized by Arkansas Business as one of the Top 100 Women in Arkansas.
  

  Sally Sedelow

  

  Robert Fincher

• Sally Sedelow, of Heber Springs, is a former research scientist for System Development Corp. and contributed to one of the world’s first major initiatives in artificial intelligence. She worked in computer science and linguistics and joined the National Science Foundation, where she founded its efforts in intelligent systems.
• Kathleen Brown, of Little Rock, received her Juris Doctor from the University of Arkansas School of Law in Fayetteville and is licensed in New York. She worked for the Arnold Grobmyer and Haley Law Firm, National Broadcasting Company (NBC) in New York City as a network sales legal counsel, and Dover and Dixon Law Firm.

The Institute on Aging Advisory Board members serve as ambassadors to support and publicize the institute’s mission, which includes six Centers on Aging located throughout the state where the needs of an aging generation are met with the highest standards of service, research and care.

Other members of the advisory board are: Sharon Bailey, lifetime member; Diane Allen Bressinck, treasurer; Evlyn Clinton, lifetime member; Catherine Crass; James Darr Jr., lifetime member; Mark Davis, vice chair; Jo Ellen Ford, lifetime member; Mike Gibson; Reed Greenwood, Ed.D.; Judy Grundfest, lifetime member; Sybil Hampton, Ed.D.; William Haught; Martha Hill; Barbara Hoover; Jeffrey Lynch; Mandy Macke; John McKnight; Jane McMullin; Beverly Morrow; Rick Murphy; Martha Murphy, lifetime member; Greg Nabholz; Julia Peck-Mobley; Terry Quinn, secretary; Jane Rogers; Philip Schmidt; Belinda Shults; Christy Snowden; Judith Snowden, lifetime member; Lou Ellen Treadway; and Gilda Underwood.

UAMS is the state’s only health sciences university, with colleges of Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, Health Professions and Public Health; a graduate school; hospital; a main campus in Little Rock; a Northwest Arkansas regional campus in Fayetteville; a statewide network of regional campuses; and seven 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 and Institute for Digital Health & Innovation. UAMS includes UAMS Health, a statewide health system that encompasses all of UAMS’ clinical enterprise including its hospital, regional clinics and clinics it operates or staffs in cooperation with other providers. UAMS is the only adult Level 1 trauma center in the state. U.S. News & World Report named UAMS Medical Center the state’s Best Hospital; ranked its ear, nose and throat program among the top 50 nationwide; and named six areas as high performing — cancer, colon cancer surgery, heart failure, hip replacement, knee replacement and lung cancer surgery. UAMS has 2,727 students, 870 medical residents and five dental residents. It is the state’s largest public employer with more than 10,000 employees, including 1,200 physicians who provide care to patients at UAMS, its regional campuses, Arkansas Children’s Hospital, the VA Medical Center and Baptist Health. Visit www.uams.edu or www.uamshealth.com. Find us on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube or Instagram.