The HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology recently named Dr. Amit Arora to its board of directors at a regularly scheduled meeting of the Institute’s leadership.
Dr. Arora is medical director of Huntsville Hospital’s stroke program, co-founder of Neurology Consultants of Huntsville and a member of the City of Huntsville’s Health Care Authority Board.
Additionally, former Alabama Governor and longtime HudsonAlpha Board Member Bob Riley was honored as the Institute’s first Board Member Emeritus.
Arora, along with his wife, Dr. Aruna Arora, are the founders of Neurology Consultants of Huntsville. He is a graduate of Emory University and earned his medical degree from the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine. While completing his neurology residency at UAB Hospital, he served as chief neurology resident and completed an additional year as an epilepsy fellow. He has also served as the medical director of the Stroke Program at Huntsville Hospital since 2008. During his tenure he helped establish the North Alabama Neuro-Stroke Network which uses telemedicine technology to coordinate neurological emergency care at over 10 hospitals in the Huntsville Hospital Health System. He has served as the medical director of the network since its inception.
Riley served as Alabama’s 52nd governor from 2002-2010, after serving three terms in the U.S. House of Representatives as the Congressman for Alabama’s Third District. He was the first Republican to win re-election in Congress and again as Governor in over a century. During his eight years leading Alabama, he was regarded as one of the most prolific job creators in the nation. In 2011, he founded Bob Riley and Associates, a Homewood-based consulting firm as its president.
