Alhajji Joins St. Bernards Clopton Clinic (Movers & Shakers)

Betsy Day of Premier Gastroenterology in Little Rock.

Dr. Mohammed Alhajji is the new nephrologist at St. Bernards Clopton Clinic in Jonesboro.

Alhajji graduated from Dow Medical College at Karachi University in Pakistan. He practiced medicine at King Fahad Hospital in Saudi Arabia for the next seven years before furthering his training in internal medicine at Franklin Square Medical Center at the University of Maryland.

Alhajji was a hospitalist at St. Bernards Medical Center for the next four years, covering the general medicine floor and ICU. He then pursued a nephrology fellowship at the University of Minnesota, focusing on renal disease and hypertension.

Dr. Sean Morell has joined the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery in the College of Medicine at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock as a specialist in hand surgery.

Morell is a 2013 graduate of UAMS, where he also completed his residency in orthopedics in 2018.

For the past year, he has been participating in the Orthopaedic Hand Surgery Fellowship at the University of Colorado in Denver. Prior to medical school, Morell attended Arkansas Tech University, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in chemistry.

He is also an assistant professor and will see patients at the UAMS Orthopaedic Clinic on Autumn Road in Little Rock, at UAMS Baptist Health Orthopaedic Clinic in Conway and at Arkansas Children’s Hospital.

Dr. Joseph Henske has joined UAMS as an endocrinologist and director of the diabetes program.

Henske is also an associate professor in the Division of Endocrinology & Metabolism in the Department of Internal Medicine at UAMS College of Medicine.

Henske received his medical degree at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. He completed his internship and internal medicine residency at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago and continued his training with a fellowship in endocrinology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee. After completing his fellowship, Henske began practicing at DuPage Medical Group in Chicago, where he was promoted to chair of the Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism Department in 2012.

He is board-certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine in the subspecialty of diabetes, endocrinology and metabolism and is a Fellow of the American College of Endocrinology.

Betsy Day has joined Premier Gastroenterology in Little Rock as an on-site registered dietician.

Day has extensive experience in nutritional counseling.

Todd Greer has joined as chief operating officer.

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