National AHEC Week in Indiana Celebrates "The Next Generation"

On March 25, 2008, 108 attendees celebrated National AHEC Week at the inaugural Indiana AHEC Program Annual Meeting. In addition to a keynote presentation from Richard Merchant, CEO of the North New York AHEC, attendees discussed project posters with Indiana high school and health professions students, learned about community-based health professions training from regional AHEC staff, and celebrated the contributions of five “Partnership Matters” award winners and our first “AHEC Hero.”

On March 25, 2008, 108 attendees celebrated National AHEC Week at the inaugural Indiana AHEC Program Annual Meeting, held at the Downtown Marriott in Indianapolis. In honor of the thousands of tomorrow’s health professionals who are now learning and practicing in Indiana’s schools, post-secondary institutions, and health professions training programs across the state, the theme of this year’s Annual Meeting was “The Next Generation.”

Meeting Highlights

New York AHEC Describes Novel Recruitment Website

Crispus Attucks Shares Indiana AHEC Partnership Story

Indiana AHEC Honors Remarkable Partners

Thanks to the
Planning Committee

Special Thanks
to the Sponsors

Many of this year’s attendees were members of the Indiana Area Health Education Centers (AHEC) Statewide Advisory Board, a group of more than 40 individuals who represent a broad array of Hoosier partners with a stake in ensuring that Indiana responds to emerging health care needs with demonstrably successful strategies to “grow our own” health care providers. Members of the Advisory Board met for their spring meeting on Tuesday morning, where the Board reaffirmed its commitment to ongoing guidance of the Indiana AHEC Program and reviewed progress on funds development and sustainability planning.

Twenty-seven Advisory Board members later joined nearly 81 other attendees to review and discuss recent regional AHEC learning projects that were presented as posters by health professions trainees and high school students who have participated in AHEC academic enrichment and health careers promotion activities. Participating AHEC students included Tynesha Dodd, Alisha Jones, Kenneth Rush, and Acasvia Webster from Crispus Attucks Medical Magnet High School (Indianapolis), Robin Ireland, Lisa Deakins, and Melissa Williams from Indiana State University, and Lydia Harman, Xavier Quada, Ana Ponce, Melanie Kim from Indiana University Purdue University Fort Wayne and Amanda Turich also presented a poster (Hammond).

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