LITTLE ROCK - Benedict Tan, MD, has joined the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) as director of neurocritical care, treating the most serious brain and spine cases in emergency and intensive care.

Tan is the only neurointensivist in the state.

Tan is also an assistant professor of neurology and neurosurgery in the UAMS College of Medicine.

Tan earned a medical degree from Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia. He completed a surgery internship at the University of Vermont in Burlington, Vermont; a neurology residency at SUNY Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York; and a neurocritical care fellowship at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas.