The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences invested Chancellor C. Lowry Barnes, M.D., in the Harry P. Ward Chancellor’s Distinguished Chair during a ceremony on the UAMS campus. UA System President Jay Silveria, Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders and philanthropist Alice Walton were among the featured speakers at the ceremony, which marked another milestone in Barnes’ leadership of the state’s academic health sciences center. A nationally recognized orthopaedic surgeon, Barnes joined UAMS in 2014 as professor and chair of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and became chancellor in 2026 following six months as interim chancellor.
