Baker Named Director of the Division of Diagnostic Medical Sonography in UAMS Allied Health College

By Jon Parham

Baker’s appointment is effective May 31. He succeeds current director Terry DuBose, who is retiring.

Baker has served as an instructor and clinical coordinator in the Division of Diagnostic Medical Sonography since 2000, coordinating clinical rotations for the program’s students and teaching numerous courses. An Air Force veteran, he received his master’s degree in education in 2004 from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.

Baker was class president for the first diagnostic medical sonography class at UAMS, graduating in 1997. Prior to his UAMS faculty appointment, Baker worked as a clinical instructor at Baptist Health Medical Center in Little Rock.

He is a member of the Society of Diagnostic Medical Sonography and a member of the American Registry for Diagnostic Medical Sonographers Examination Development Task Force for Sonographic Principles and Instrumentation.

UAMS is the state’s only comprehensive academic health center, with colleges of Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, Health Related Professions and Public Health; a graduate school; a 540,000-square-foot hospital; a statewide network of regional centers; and six institutes: the Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute, the Jackson T. Stephens Spine & Neurosciences Institute, the Myeloma Institute for Research and Therapy, the Harvey & Bernice Jones Eye Institute, the Psychiatric Research Institute and the Donald W. Reynolds Institute on Aging. UAMS has 2,775 students and 748 medical residents. It is the state’s largest public employer with more than 10,000 employees, including nearly 1,150 physicians who provide medical care to patients at UAMS, Arkansas Children’s Hospital, the VA Medical Center and UAMS’ Area Health Education Centers throughout the state. Visit www.uams.edu or uamshealth.com.