Martine Downs Pollard of Rogers has been named Arkansas Blue Cross & Blue Shield’s vice president for the northwest Arkansas market.
Pollard will be the company’s senior leader there, working closely with businesses, health care providers and community organizations from the insurer’s new Northwest Arkansas Corporate Center in Springdale. Pollard will work with the company’s sales and account managers and connect with business leaders, decision-makers, local government entities and staff.
Pollard was previously executive director of community and public relations and communications and community integration at Mercy Health System of Northwest Arkansas. Before that, she led government, business and community relations initiatives, serving as senior vice president for government affairs for the Rogers-Lowell Chamber of Commerce and as a congressional staffer for former U.S. Sen. Mark Pryor. She’s on the Bentonville Area Chamber of Commerce board of directors and the Leadership Benton County Advisory Committee.
Pollard earned a bachelor’s degree in English from the University of Central Arkansas in Conway.
UAMS
Corey Johnson has joined the Rockefeller Cancer Institute at UAMS in Little Rock as executive director of community outreach and engagement.
Johnson previously was executive director of Community Health & Well-Being at LeBonheur Children’s Hospital in Memphis.
Aimee Arzoumanian, Danyelle Musselman and David Rainey are new members of the board of advisers of the Rockefeller Cancer Institute.
Arzoumanian is the retired chief operating officer of what was then Sparks Health System in Fort Smith (now part of Baptist Health) and a former physician assistant for the UAMS Myeloma Center. Musselman is a former anchor and reporter for the NFL Network, ESPN and Fox Sports. Rainey is a retired teacher, superintendent and former member of the Arkansas House of Representatives.
Dr. Elena Ambrogini has been named director of the Division of Endocrinology & Metabolism at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock.
She is an associate professor in the division, which is part of the UAMS College of Medicine’s Department of Internal Medicine. She is also a staff endocrinologist at the Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System.
As division director, Ambrogini is replacing Dr. Stavros Manolagas, who remains director of the Center for Osteoporosis & Bone Research.
Diane Alderson of El Dorado and Patti Bailey of Little Rock are among nine new members of the UAMS board of advisers.
Alderson is principal of the Alderson Management Co., and Bailey has been involved in commercial and multifamily real estate ownership and management since the early 1980s.
Other new members of the board of advisers are Sandra Connor of Dallas, a former president of the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts board of trustees; Chris Fowler, president of Fowler Foods Inc. of Jonesboro; Dr. Elder Granger of Centennial, Colorado, who earned his medical degree at UAMS in 1980; Jennifer Schueck McCarty of Little Rock, a real estate agent with the Janet Jones Co.; Lance Taylor of Tontitown, president of the Schmieding Foundation in Springdale; William Thames of Little Rock, regional insurance president for McGriff Insurance Services; and Nathan Waldrip of Little Rock, the senior vice president of operations for Armor Bank.
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