It's always a who's-who of the city's business leaders at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock College of Business' Distinguished Alumni Luncheon.
This year's distinguished alumnus is Scott Teague, a commercial banking executive with U.S. Bank. Teague has sat on the college's advisory board for a decade.
The Dean's Award for Excellence was awarded to Dr. Nancy Andrew Collins, a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the medical school.
Collins said group work within her Master's of Business Administration classes was a valuable experience, and she's enthusiastic about the university's plans to tailor a future MBA program to the health professions.
"To learn about how hospitals run, the management of hospitals -- we [doctors and nurses] see the waste, see where things are needed, but understanding how to get that under control" is less apparent, she said.
"Everyone talks about health care reform, but again, you have so many different silos of people trying to put it together -- until they get together as a group and really work on it together, we'll be listening to 'health care reform' for many, many more years."
Last year Mark Langston (chief financial officer at Life and Specialty Ventures) was the distinguished alumnus and Beyond Cotton founder Susan Parke received the Dean's Award for Excellence. Both were in the crowd Oct. 14 at the Little Rock Marriott applauding Teague and Collins.
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by Bobby Ampezzan
High Profile on 10/25/2015