CommonSpirit Health Divisions

Southeast Division

Arkansas

The Arkansas Neurosciences Institute, led by Dr. Ali Krisht, internationally known neurosurgeon, is a comprehensive program incorporating all aspects of neurosurgery and the spectrum of neurological disorders: skull-base surgery, vascular neurosurgery, neuro-oncology, spine and spinal cord surgery epilepsy surgery and surgery for movement disorders.

Research Sites

• CHI St. Vincent Heart Institute

• Arkansas Neurosciences Institute

Areas of Research

CHI St. Vincent Heart Institute:

Dr. Thomas Rayburn III, MD, and Clinical Research Coordinator Lynn Bass, RN, have received awards for their contributions to the PROACT

Xa clinical trial and high-priority heart care research. CHI St. Vincent was the first participating research partner to enroll a patient in the randomized, clinical trial thath is part of a Linked Clinical Research Centers seven-year initiative through the Cardiothoracic Surgical Trials Network (CTSN), part of the National Institutes of Health’s National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI).

Arkansas Neurosciences Institute: The creation of the Neuroscience campus in central Arkansas involved the renovation of CHI St. Vincent North and the design and construction of the research and education facility. It is the culmination of a $30-million project, including over $4 million in philanthropic investments.

Research Team

St. Vincent Heart Institute

Five Physician Investigators

Two RN Research Coordinators

Arkansas Neurosciences Institute

Education and Research Center

Our Heart Institute research is committed to delivering the most advanced care to our communities across Arkansas which suffer from a high prevalence of cardiac disease, stroke, obesity and diabetes.