UAMS Physcians Honored (Movers & Shakers)

Masters are elected “on account of personal character, positions of honor, contributions toward furthering the purposes of the ACP, eminence in practice or in medical research, or other attainments in science or in the art of medicine.”

Dr. Dan Rahn and Dr. Robert Hopkins Jr. of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock have been awarded Mastership in the American College of Physicians, the national organization of internists.

Rahn and Hopkins were two of 53 internists from across the world to receive the honor at the ACP’s annual scientific conference held in San Francisco this year and were the only two Arkansans to achieve Mastership this year. Just more than 0.5 percent of the 148,000 ACP members worldwide have been awarded Mastership of the College.

“Mastership is the highest honor the college bestows, and it comes only after a long, arduous process during which they carefully vet the credentials of all nominees and ensure that the recipients deserve it,” Dr. Omar Atiq, a professor in the Department of Internal Medicine and governor of the ACP Arkansas Chapter, said in a press release.

According to ACP bylaws, Masters are elected “on account of personal character, positions of honor, contributions toward furthering the purposes of the ACP, eminence in practice or in medical research, or other attainments in science or in the art of medicine.” ACP activities and community service are also taken into consideration.

Rahn has been UAMS chancellor since 2009 and will retire on July 31. He previously served as president of the Medical College of Georgia in Augusta and senior vice chancellor for health and medical programs for the University System of Georgia, as well as director of the Lyme Disease Program, director of clinical training in rheumatology and director of faculty practice for the Department of Internal Medicine at Yale University School of Medicine.

Hopkins is a professor in the UAMS Departments of Pediatrics and Internal Medicine. He has served as director of the Combined Internal Medicine-Pediatrics Residency Program since 2006 and was associate director from 1995-2006. He was governor of the Arkansas ACP Chapter from 2007-11.

Rahn is a graduate of Yale University and the Yale University School of Medicine, where he completed internal medicine and rheumatology training.

Hopkins is a graduate of the Medical College of Georgia and completed his residency in internal medicine and pediatrics at UAMS.

Dr. John Dornhoffer has been appointed chairman of the Department of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery in the College of Medicine at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock.

Dornhoffer has served on the UAMS faculty since 1994 and as vice chair of the department since 2009. He is also a professor and director of the Division of Otology/Neurotology and in the Department of Neurobiology & Developmental Sciences in the College of Medicine.

Nicki Hilliard has received the 2017 Outstanding Woman Faculty Award from the UAMS Women’s Faculty Development Caucus. Hilliard is a professor in the UAMS College of Pharmacy in Little Rock.

See more of this week’s Movers & Shakers, and submit your own announcement at ArkansasBusiness.com/Movers.