Brett Trelfa has been named chief information officer at Arkansas Blue Cross & Blue Shield in Little Rock.
Trelfa has worked in information technology for 23 years, the past 16 with Humana of Louisville, Kentucky, and most recently as CIO for Humana’s Medicare and Medicaid business.
Denise M. Schluterman Clayton of Mayflower, a clinical pharmacist on Arkansas Blue Cross & Blue Shield’s commercial pharmacy operations team, has been honored as a fellow of the American Pharmacists Association.
Clayton was one of only 14 pharmacists in the nation to receive this honor for 2021.
Dr. Kathryn L. Nance, a board-certified family medicine doctor who is fellowship-trained in sports medicine, has joined the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences and is seeing patients at the UAMS Health Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine Clinic at 10815 Col. Glenn Road in Little Rock.
After receiving her medical degree from Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center in Shreveport in 2013, Nance completed her family medicine residency, followed by a yearlong primary care sports medicine fellowship at John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth. She previously worked at a Baptist Health orthopedic clinic in Conway.
Dr. Michail Mavros, a fellowship-trained surgical oncologist who specializes in gastrointestinal cancers, has joined the UAMS Surgical Oncology Clinic at the Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute in Little Rock.
Mavros received his medical degree from the University of Athens School of Medicine in Greece and served his residency in general surgery at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital-Washington Hospital Center in Washington, D.C. He completed oncology training at the University of Toronto. He is an assistant professor in the UAMS College of Medicine Division of Surgical Oncology.
Dr. Matthew R. Brown of Unity Health Medical Center in Searcy recently became a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons. Brown received his medical degree in 2016 from the University of Texas Health Sciences Center in San Antonio and is certified by the American Board of Surgery.
F. Levi Hudson, a certified physician assistant, is now seeing patients at Washington Regional East Springdale Family Clinic. Hudson, who earned a Master of Science in Physician Assistant Studies from Harding University at Searcy, has been with Washington Regional for more than six years.
Melissa Ortega has been promoted to vice president of account partnerships by Beacon Health Options in Little Rock. In her role, she supports Empower Healthcare Solutions, which oversees treatment of Medicaid beneficiaries in Arkansas who have behavioral health or developmental disability diagnoses.
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