LITTLE ROCK – Arkansas Heart Hospital is pleased to announce the addition of its newest team member, Greg Bledsoe, MD, MPH, who also serves as the Surgeon General for the State of Arkansas. Bledsoe will serve as Arkansas Heart Hospital’s Director of Clinical Innovation, a role which will encompass many areas such as cutting-edge clinical modernizations, process improvement, and vetting of the latest medical technologies.
In January 2015, Bledsoe was appointed by Governor Asa Hutchinson to be the Surgeon General for the state of Arkansas.
Arkansas Heart Hospital offers the latest technology teamed with highly trained support staff and Arkansas’ leading cardiologists and cardiovascular surgeons. It provides comprehensive inpatient and outpatient cardiac care, a 24-hour full service Heart Emergency Center, and the best possible setting for the diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular disease.
Bledsoe is a board certified Emergency Medicine physician and completed a two-year fellowship in International Emergency Medicine and a Master in Public Health (MPH) from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Bledsoe has extensive experience in international travel having visited over 50 countries has been an instructor and medical consultant for the United States Secret Service, and served as the chief editor of the textbook entitled Expedition & Wilderness Medicine that was published by Cambridge University Press in the fall of 2008.