Michael Manley Named UAMS Chancellor’s Chief of Staff
| LITTLE ROCK — Michael Manley, R.N., MNSc., has been named the chancellor’s chief of staff at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS). Previously he was the Northwest director of clinical services integration and development, a position in which he developed partnerships for graduate education, clinical and research development at the UAMS Northwest Regional Campus in Fayetteville.
“I look forward to working with Michael in this new role,” said Chancellor Cam Patterson, M.D., MBA, and CEO of UAMS Health. “He has already accomplished great things at UAMS, and I believe even greater things are to come as we work together to serve our patients, students and all Arkansans.”
Manley came to UAMS in 2003 and has served in a variety of roles, including as director of outreach and government relations in the UAMS Center for Distance Health and as patient liaison trainer for diabetes care. Before coming to UAMS, he was executive director of the Louisiana Organ Procurement Agency and executive director of the Arkansas Regional Organ Recovery Agency.
Manley succeeds Amy Jo Jenkins, MS, C.C.R.P., who is the director of the Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute’s Office of Clinical Trials Administration.
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.###