University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences has named C. Lowry Barnes, MD, chair of the department of orthopedic surgery, effective Aug. 1.
Dr. Barnes has been a professor of orthopedics at UAMS for the past three years, while continuing in private practice. He is a founding managing partner of Arkansas Specialty Orthopaedics in Little Rock and is a past president of the Arkansas Orthopaedic Society and Southern Orthopaedic Association. He holds four patents for orthopedic surgery devices that he developed.
Dr. Barnes has completed a fellowship in adult reconstructive surgery and arthritis surgery at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston.
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