UAMS has a new chair of its Department of Neurosurgery. He’s Dr. J.D. Day, who comes from the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio. He’s described as a leader in the field of skull base surgery and specializes in Gamma Knife surgery and vascular disorders of the brain and skull base.

Day succeeds Dr. Ossama Al-Mefty, who resigned the chairmanship in the fall and left the hospital along with Dr. Ali Krisht to establish the Arkanas Neuroscience Institute at St. Vincent Infirmary Medical Center.

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