Little Rock Clinic Adds Physician Trained in Surgery and Family Care

Payal Gandhi, M.D., has joined the UAMS Health Neighborhood Clinic on Rahling Road in Little Rock, where she treats adults and children with an emphasis on helping patients manage obesity.

Gandhi is board-certified in family medicine and obesity medicine. She performs outpatient procedures that include Pap smears and joint injections. She is accepting new patients at One Rahling Centre, Suite 120, 1811 Rahling Road. Appointments can be scheduled by calling 501-214-2360.

Gandhi arrived at UAMS from Saline Memorial Hospital in Benton. She previously served on the board of AdvantagePoint Health Alliance, a clinically integrated network operated in partnership with Lifepoint Health.

She completed the UAMS Little Rock Family Medicine Residency program in 2023 and received the program's best resident teacher award during that training. Before coming to Arkansas, she finished a general surgery residency and earned board certification in that field at Bharati Vidyapeeth Deemed University Medical College in India in 2015. Her medical degree came from Krishna Institute of Medical Sciences Deemed University in India.

The Rahling Road clinic is one of three neighborhood clinics operated by UAMS primary care in Central Arkansas. The system also runs a dental clinic and a longevity clinic in the region, along with 10 family medical centers across the state. Those sites handle preventive care, routine checkups, chronic condition management, immunizations, behavioral health support and oral healthcare, and they offer same-day and urgent care visits.

UAMS is the state's only health sciences university, with colleges of Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, Health Professions and Public Health, plus a graduate school. Its hospitals sit in Little Rock and Bryant, with an orthopaedic hospital and a main campus in Little Rock and a regional campus in Fayetteville. UAMS reports 3,813 students, 1,030 medical residents and fellows, two dental residents and about 12,000 employees, including 1,200 physicians. It is the state's largest public employer.