Neurosurgeon Adib Abla Joins UAMS
| LITTLE ROCK — Neurosurgeon Adib Abla, M.D., has joined the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) and will see patients at the Jackson T. Stephens Spine & Neurosciences Institute.
Abla offers both surgical and minimally invasive endovascular (interventional) therapy for aneurysms, AVMs (arteriovenous malformation), cavernous malformations, and carotid disease. He performs surgical bypass for ischemic disease and unclippable, uncoilable aneurysms and offers interventional intraarterial therapy for acute stroke.
Abla is also an assistant professor of neurosurgery in the UAMS College of Medicine. He came to UAMS from the University of California at San Francisco School of Medicine where he completed a vascular neurosurgery fellowship and was a clinical instructor in the Department of Neurological Surgery.
Abla received his medical degree at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine in Pittsburgh in 2006. In 2013, he completed a neurosurgery residency and a cerebrovascular and skull base fellowship at Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix.
He has published more than 70 articles in peer-reviewed journals and is a member of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons and Congress of Neurological Surgeons.
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.###