William 'Skip' Baker Joins White River Medical Center (Movers & Shakers)

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 ...
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