UAMS Names Tim Dockery as Director of Planned Giving

By Ben Boulden

| LITTLE ROCK — Tim Dockery has been named director of planned giving in the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Division of Institutional Advancement.

He will work with donors who are considering or making planned gifts, will provide counsel and education about planned giving opportunities to the advancement team and continue stewardship of the legacy of donors who include the university in their estate plans.

Dockery received his law degree in 2007 from the University of Arkansas School of Law in Fayetteville and his master’s degree in taxation in 2010 from the University of Alabama School of Law. He has expertise in the areas of estate planning, tax planning and deferred giving.

Before coming to UAMS, he served as general counsel of the Arkansas Baptist Foundation where he helped hundreds of individuals achieve their philanthropic goals through deferred giving and was the lead attorney for a team that helped individuals plan more than $50 million in deferred gifts during his tenure.

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 3,275 students, 890 medical residents and fellows, and five dental residents. It is the state’s largest public employer with more than 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.

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