| Payal Gandhi, M.D., has joined the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Neighborhood Clinic on Rahling Road, where she will offer patients comprehensive care with an emphasis on helping them manage obesity. She also performs a variety of outpatient procedures including Pap smears and joint injections.
UAMS Neighborhood Clinic on Rahling Road
Gandhi is board-certified in both family medicine and obesity medicine and completed her residency at the UAMS Little Rock Family Medicine Residency program in 2023, where she won the best resident teacher award. She also completed a residency and board certification in general surgery at the Bharati Vidyapeeth Deemed University Medical College in India in 2015 after earning her medical degree from the Krishna Institute of Medical Sciences Deemed University in India.
She joins UAMS from Saline Memorial Hospital in Benton. She previously served as a board member of AdvantagePoint Health Alliance clinically integrated networks in partnership with Lifepoint Health.
Gandhi is accepting new patients at the UAMS Health Neighborhood Clinic on Rahling Road at 1811 Rahling Road, One Rahling Centre, Suite 120, in Little Rock. To schedule an appointment, call 501-214-2360.
UAMS primary care clinical services include three neighborhood clinics, a dental clinic and longevity clinic in Central Arkansas as well as 10 family medical centers across the state. The clinics treat adults and children, offering preventive care, routine checkups, chronic condition management, immunizations, behavioral health support, and oral healthcare. They also offer same-day and urgent care visits.
UAMS is the state’s only health sciences university, with colleges of Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, Health Professions and Public Health; a graduate school; hospitals in Little Rock and Bryant; an orthopaedic hospital; a main campus in Little Rock; a Northwest Arkansas regional campus in Fayetteville; a statewide network of regional campuses; and seven institutes: the Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute, Jackson T. Stephens Spine & Neurosciences Institute, Harvey & Bernice Jones Eye Institute, Psychiatric Research Institute, Donald W. Reynolds Institute on Aging, Translational Research Institute, and the Institute for Community Health Innovation. UAMS includes UAMS Health, a statewide health system that encompasses all of UAMS’ clinical enterprise, including affiliated hospitals in Pine Bluff, Helena-West Helena, Mena, and Warren. UAMS is the only adult Level 1 trauma center in the state. UAMS has 3,813 students and 1,030 medical residents and fellows, and two dental residents. It is the state’s largest public employer with about 12,000 employees, including 1,200 physicians who provide care to patients at UAMS, its regional campuses, Arkansas Children’s, the VA Medical Center and Baptist Health. Visit www.uams.edu or uamshealth.com. Find us on Facebook, X (formerly Twitter), YouTube or Instagram.
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Source: news.uams.edu
