Dr. Barnes: UAMS's New Chancellor & Arkansas Health Booster

Dr. Lowry Barnes, a sixty-six-year-old orthopedic surgeon from Arkansas, has been appointed as the permanent chancellor of UAMS, making him the first from the state to lead the university while still practicing medicine. Barnes, born in Mississippi and raised in Arkansas, has built an impressive career with a medical degree from UAMS, training at Harvard and Switzerland, and over three hundred fifty peer-reviewed papers and seven patents. He has also treated celebrities like Terry Bradshaw and dreamt up the eighty-five-million-dollar Orthopaedic and Spine Hospital.

Arkansas faces significant health challenges, with sixty of seventy-five counties lacking hospitals and high poverty rates. Barnes, an unabashed Arkansas homer, is committed to growing UAMS amid low margins and rural woes. As chancellor, he has boosted the minimum wage to sixteen dollars an hour, launched the Chancellors Scholars program, and partnered with Fayetteville for a six-year fast-track med school program. UAMS has turned profitable for four consecutive months, the first since the pandemic, with everyone rowing together toward bigger research funds, more philanthropy, and top-tier rural care.

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