Greg Bledsoe, who serves as Arkansas Surgeon General, is seeking the second highest office in the state. Bledsoe, who was appointed to his current position by Governor Asa Hutchinson in 2015, announced Thursday that he is running for Lt. Governor as a Republican.
He has served as the state’s surgeon general since 2015 when he was appointed by Gov. Asa Hutchinson. As Surgeon General, Bledsoe has been an adviser to the governor concerning COVID-19.
He earned his medical degree from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences and is an emergency room doctor. He also spent five years at Johns Hopkins as a faculty member at their Department of Emergency Medicine.
Bledsoe is an emergency room physician and earned his medical degree from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. After a residency at UAMS, he spent five years on the faculty in the Johns Hopkins Department of Emergency Medicine.
