Dr. Gregory Sharp has been named senior vice president and chief medical officer for Arkansas Children’s Hospital.
“He has a strong reputation as a champion for patient and caregiver experience and a deep commitment to building partnerships that achieve excellent clinical outcomes,” said Chanda Chacon, Arkansas Children’s executive vice president and chief operating officer. “We are proud that he emerged as the right candidate amid an extensive national search with a robust field of applicants.”
Sharp has served as the chief of neurology and chief of staff for Arkansas Children’s Hospital as well as co-medical director of the hospital’s neuroscience center, neuroscience inpatient unit and neurofibromatosis clinic. He is a professor of pediatrics and neurology at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences and holds the Dr. John H. Bornhofen Endowed Chair in Child Neurology.
Sharp earned his medical degree at UAMS and completed his residency in pediatrics at UAMS and Arkansas Children’s Hospital. He completed a residency and fellowship in child neurology at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, with specialized training in clinical neurophysiology. He is board-certified by the American Board of Pediatrics and the American Board of Psychiatry & Neurology with special competence in child neurology and added qualification in clinical neurophysiology and epilepsy.
Dr. Konstantinos Kossidas has joined the cardiology team at the CHI St. Vincent Heart Institute in Little Rock.
Kossidas specializes in cardiac electrophysiology. He completed medical school at the University of Athens Medical School in Greece and completed his residency with the Lenox Hill Hospital Internal Medicine Program in New York, as well as a clinical cardiac electrophysiology fellowship at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
Michelle Harp has joined the Baptist Health Urology Clinic in Fort Smith as a nurse practitioner.
Harp previously served as the executive director of the Carolyn McKelvey Moore School of Nursing at the University of Arkansas at Fort Smith and is the president of the Arkansas Nurses Association. She earned her doctorate in nursing practice from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville.
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