oncology

Jacob Leffert, MD, is the newest oncologist at CARTI. He will serve patients at the CARTI Clinic in Clinton as well as the CARTI Cancer Centers in Conway, Little Rock and Russellville. “As patient need has risen, so too has …

Mercy Health Foundation Fort Smith has surpassed its $41 million fundraising goal for phase one of Mercy Health’s planned renovation and expansion of its oncology services. The fundraising goal was met with the help of a recent $2 million challenge …

CARTI is making urologic care more accessible across Arkansas by welcoming two new advanced practice registered nurses — Tamera Douglas, AGNP-C, and Shari Ronell, MSN, AGACNP-BC — to its team. The expansion also brings services to Heber Springs and Stuttgart, …

Dr. Eric Burdge has joined CARTI’s breast surgical oncology team. He will see patients at the flagship campus in Little Rock and at the CARTI Cancer Centers in Conway, El Dorado and Russellville.  Prior to coming to CARTI, he has …

The Baptist Health Foundation recently received $213,000 in grants from the American Cancer Society and the National Breast Cancer Foundation to support women’s health and oncology initiatives.  The National Breast Cancer Foundation awarded the Baptist Health Foundation $123,000 for the …

Genesis Cancer and Blood Institute, a partner of the American Oncology Network (AON), recently added board-certified medical oncologist Dr. Brad Baltz to its team. He joins the practice’s growing roster of physicians, including Drs. Timothy Webb, Robert Muldoon, Lynn Cleveland, …

St. Bernards Cancer Center in Jonesboro announced the arrival of radiation oncology specialist Brooke Willows, MD this week. Willows, herself a cancer survivor, specializes in women’s health, including breast and gynecologic cancers. “It helps to know that others around you …

CARTI’s new 57,000-square-foot, extended-stay surgery center at its main campus in Little Rock is the cherry on top of an 18-site network of Arkansas locations. An independent, nonprofit provider, CARTI was opened in 1976 as a specialty provider of radiation-based …

A group to help children ages 6-12 better cope with a parent’s cancer diagnosis is set to begin Feb. 8 at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute. CLIMB, which stands for Children’s Lives …

Sunny R. K. Singh, M.D., has recently been named the director of University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute as a hematologist/oncologist and director of the UAMS Baptist Health Cancer Center in North Little Rock. …