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NYITCOM at A-State Delta Health: Dr. Christine Hartford

NYITCOM at A-State

In this edition of Delta Health from NYIT's College of Osteopathic Medicine at Arkansas State, KASU's Johnathan Reaves talks with Dr. Christine Hartford.

Christine Hartford, M.D., a board-certified pediatrician and clinical medicine faculty member at New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine at Arkansas State University (NYITCOM at A-State), and co-investigator Jennifer Conner, Dr.PH., associate professor at NYITCOM and deputy director of the Delta Population Health Institute (DPHI), have received a $10,000 Community Access to Child Health (CATCH) Implementation grant from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) to address the health of mothers and infants living in rural Arkansas through education, connection to services, and collection of data.

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Johnathan Reaves is the News Director for KASU Public Radio. As part of an Air Force Family, he moved to Arkansas from Minot, North Dakota in 1986. He was first bitten by the radio bug after he graduated from Gosnell High School in 1992. While working on his undergraduate degree, he worked at KOSE, a small 1,000 watt AM commercial station in Osceola, Arkansas. Upon graduation from Arkansas State University in 1996 with a degree in Radio-Television Broadcast News, he decided that he wanted to stay in radio news. He moved to Stuttgart, Arkansas and worked for East Arkansas Broadcasters as news director and was there for 16 years.