FORT SMITH - Aimee Arzoumanian, MHA, MS, PA-C, has been promoted to Chief Operation Officer of Sparks Health System.

She joined Sparks in 2009 as a Hospitalist Physician Assistant and later became an Assistant Administrator in 2013. Since 2016, Arzoumanian has served as Assistant Chief Executive Officer at Sparks Medical Center - Van Buren. She earned a master's degree in Physician Assistant Studies from Mercy College in New York and a master's degree in Health Care Administration from Trinity University in San Antonio.

Arzoumanian succeeds Shane Knisely who joined a health system in Cincinnati, Ohio, last month.