Dr. Ray Stowers has been promoted to provost and vice president of academic affairs for the Arkansas Colleges of Health Education in Fort Smith.
Stowers previously served as the founding dean of the Arkansas College of Osteopathic Medicine, which is part of the ACHE. Dr. Rance McClain succeeds Stowers and has been appointed dean of ACOM.
Stowers is the former president of the American Osteopathic Association and the Oklahoma Osteopathic Association.
McClain previously served as associate dean of clinical sciences at the William Carey University College of Osteopathic Medicine in Hattiesburg, Mississippi.
McClain earned his medical degree from the Kansas City University of Medicine & Biosciences in Missouri and completed his family medicine residency at the Medical Center of Independence in Missouri.
Pam Futch is the new senior director of accounting at the EAST Initiative in Little Rock.
Futch previously served as research accounts director at Arkansas Children’s Research Institute. She earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Harding University in Searcy.
EAST Initiative was the 2018 Arkansas Business Nonprofit Organization of the Year.
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