Dr. Kevin Sexton

Dr. Kevin Sexton is a surgeon-scientist with board certifications in Surgery and Clinical Informatics. He has used this expertise to create software that works across multiple electronic medical records to predict patient complications in hospital and outpatient settings (Midas+ Live™) and has created medical devices designed to use venous waveforms to monitor patients. The software was acquired by Affiliated Computer Services (a Xerox company) and the device is licensed to Baxter International, both Fortune 500 companies. He is currently an Associate Professor at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) in the Department of Surgery, with secondary appointments in the Department of Biomedical Informatics, the Fay W. Boozman College of Public Health Department of Health Policy and Management, and the UAMS College of Pharmacy Department of Pharmacy Practice-Division of Pharmaceutical Evaluation and Policy (PEP). Kevin serves as Associate Chief Medical Informatics Officer for Innovation, Research, and Entrepreneurship at UAMS; Associate Director of the UAMS Institute for Digital Health & Innovation; and President of BioVentures, LLC-the UAMS technology transfer office.