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Gresham Richter, M.D.
UAMS Names Gresham Richter, M.D., as Chair of Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery
| LITTLE ROCK — The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences named Gresham Richter, M.D., as chair of the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, effective Dec. 1.
Richter currently serves as vice chair of the department.
“Dr. Richter brings substantial leadership experience to his new post, including nearly 10 years as chief of Pediatric Otolaryngology at UAMS and Arkansas Children’s Hospital,” said Steven Webber, M.D., dean of the UAMS College of Medicine and executive vice chancellor of UAMS. “His nationally recognized expertise and commitment to excellence across all mission areas will help the department build on the momentum achieved under former chair Dr. John Dornhoffer, who retired in June.”
“I am truly grateful for everything this amazing department has given me over the years, both personally and professionally. To now have the chance to help shape its next chapter is incredibly meaningful,” said Richter.
Richter received his medical degree from the University of Colorado-Health Sciences Center in 2001. He completed his residency in Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at UAMS and continued his training with a fellowship in Pediatric Otolaryngology at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. He returned to Arkansas in 2008 and held such early leadership roles as associate residency director in 2008-2012 and pediatric otolaryngology fellowship director from 2009 to 2016.
Richter has served as professor and chief of Pediatric Otolaryngology since 2016 and vice chair of the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery since 2017. He was chief of staff for Arkansas Children’s Hospital in 2020-2023. Among other leadership posts, he has directed the Vascular Anomalies Center of Excellence at Arkansas Children’s since 2012 and the Arkansas Vascular Biology Program in the Arkansas Children’s Research Institute since 2013.
Richter’s national leadership roles have included president of the American Broncho-Esophagological Association in 2023-2024 and president of the Society for Ear, Nose and Throat Advances in Children in 2020-2021. He has served as the inaugural editor-in-chief of the Journal of Vascular Anomalies since 2019.
He has published more than 140 manuscripts, five books and over 40 book chapters. Notably, he is a senior editor of the leading textbook on Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery.
Richter holds the James H. Hamlen II – Robert Seibert, M.D. Endowed Chair in Pediatric Otolaryngology.
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