By Linda Satter

LITTLE ROCK — Hector Enrique Soriano-Baron, M.D., a triple fellowship-trained neurosurgeon, has joined the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) as co-director of UAMS spine services.

An assistant professor in the UAMS College of Medicine departments of Neurosurgery and Orthopaedic Surgery, Soriano-Baron was previously on the faculty at the Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital in Albany, Georgia, where he was also in private practice.

He earned his medical degree with honors in 2004 at Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico in Mexico City and completed a neurosurgical residency at the National Institute of Neurology and Neurosurgery in Mexico City. At the Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix, Arizona, he then completed two postdoctoral fellowships — a research fellowship in biomechanics of the spine and a clinical spinal research fellowship.

Neurosurgeon Hector Enrique Soriano-Baron, M.D., Joins UAMS as Co-Director of Spine Services