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Brandon Robinson, J.D., MHA
Brandon Robinson Joins UAMS as Managing Associate General Counsel
| LITTLE ROCK — Arkansas native Brandon Robinson, J.D., MHA, has joined the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences’ (UAMS) Office of General Counsel as its managing associate general counsel and chief legal counsel for UAMS Health.
Robinson returns to Arkansas from BJC Health System in St. Louis, where he served as the director of legal services for physician strategy and senior corporate counsel. Prior to that, he was an associate general counsel for UAMS from 2015 to 2019, handling business transactions, contracts and utility regulations.
“Brandon’s years of experience in complex health care transactions, health care governance, hospital law and medical ethics and more make him uniquely qualified to assume this position,” said C. Lowry Barnes, M.D., interim chancellor of UAMS. “We are delighted he has returned to Arkansas and UAMS.”
Robinson served in the Arkansas Attorney General’s Office as an assistant attorney general from 2010 to 2015, serving as in-house counsel for 20 state agencies, boards and commissions. Before that, he was an associate with Bridges, Young, Matthews & Drake PLC in Pine Bluff.
He earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville and a Juris Doctorate from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock’s Bowen School of Law, graduating with high honors. He received a Master of Health Administration degree from the Walker School of Business at Webster University in Webster Groves, Missouri.
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 3,553 students and 902 medical residents and fellows. It is the state’s largest public employer with about 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.###