Dr. William "Skip" Baker
Dr. William “Skip” Baker has been hired as medical director and Dr. Danyale Wallace has been appointed assistant medical director in the emergency department at White River Medical Center in Batesville.
Baker previously was the director of emergency services and trauma and an emergency department physician at NEA Baptist Memorial Hospital in Jonesboro. Baker earned a Bachelor of Science in Agriculture degree from Arkansas State University in Jonesboro and received his medical degree from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock. He also completed a three-year residency in emergency medicine at UAMS in Little Rock. Wallace was previously the assistant facility medical director at NEA Baptist Memorial Hospital. Wallace completed her undergraduate degree in sociology and urban studies at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. She graduated from Rush University Medical School in Chicago and completed an emergency medicine residency at Cook County Medical Center in Chicago.
Dr. Kristopher Shewmake has joined UAMS in Little Rock as director of the Division of Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery in the College of Medicine Department of Surgery. He is also an associate professor of plastic surgery. Shewmake was chief of the Division of Plastic Surgery at UAMS from 1992 to 1996 and has been in private practice from 1996 until rejoining UAMS part time this year. He continues to see patients through his private practice, Shewmake Plastic Surgery in Little Rock.
Dr. William LaDell Douglas and Dr. Harvey Potts were recently elected to the Arkansas Foundation for Medical Care’s board of directors.
Douglas works at the Quality Care Pediatric & Adolescent Clinic in Hope and is on staff at Wadley Regional Medical Center in Hope. He earned a bachelor’s degree in biology from Southern Illinois University in Carbondale and a Master of Science in zoology from Howard University in Washington, D.C. He received his medical degree from Georgetown University Medical School in Washington, D.C., and spent his residency in the pediatrics department of Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina.
Potts is an assistant professor at the Arkansas College of Osteopathic Medicine in Fort Smith and is also the college’s director of program assessment and simulation center. He received his Bachelor of Science in health care administration from Langston University in Langston, Oklahoma, and his master’s in public health focusing on health administration and policy from the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center in Oklahoma City. He earned his medical degree from Windsor University School of Medicine in St. Kitts, West Indies.
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