Dr. Sheldon Riklon joined the UAMS Northwest faculty in August 2016. He splits his time between the Family Medicine Residency Program, the UAMS Office of Research and Community Health, and the Community Clinic in Springdale. Dr. Riklon is one of only two Marshallese doctors practicing in the U.S.
He came to UAMS from the John A. Burns School of Medicine at the University of Hawaii, where he served as family medicine clerkship director and as a faculty member in the UH Family Medicine Residency Program. He is a 2001 graduate of that residency program and a 1998 graduate of the Burns A. School of Medicine. He holds a bachelor’s degree in biology from the University of Hawaii at Hilo.
He is the inaugural holder of the Peter O. Kohler M.D. Endowed Chair in Health Disparities at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Fayetteville and the 2021 recipient of the Dr. Edith Irby Jones Excellence in Diversity and Inclusion Lifetime Achievement Award.