Alabama Rural Health Association Administration

Officers

President:  R. Allen Perkins, M.D.

Chair, Department of Family Medicine, University of South Alabama College of Medicine,

  Mobile

Vice-President:  Mary Finch, J.D.

Executive Director, Alabama Primary Health Care Association
Secretary/Treas.:  Ellen Stone Executive Director, Alabama Family Practice Rural Health Board
 

Other Members - ARHA Board of Directors

Chuck Lail

Alabama Department of Public Health, Office of Primary Care and Rural Health

  Development

Clark Bruner State Health Planning & Development Agency
Ellen Stone Alabama Family Practice Rural Health Board
Jane Knight Alabama Hospital Association
William A. Curry, M.D., FACP Representing the University of Alabama School of Medicine

Ronald D. Franks, M.D.

Vice-President for Health Science, The University of South Alabama College of Medicine

Cary Kuhlmann The Medical Association of the State of Alabama
Jeanette VanderMeer Alabama State Nurses Association
Carolyn Bern Alabama Public Health Association

Ronald W. Smith

Chairperson, Bullock County Commission, representing the Association of County

  Commissions of Alabama

Janet Bradford Alabama Farmers Federation
Vacant Governor's Office

Willie Dunn

President, First United Security Bank branch in Brent, representing the Rural Alabama Health

   Alliance

Jeffrey E. Arrington Alabama Academy of Family Physicians
Linda P. Lee Alabama Chapter, American Academy of Pediatrics
Ross Vaughn, M.D. Alabama Chapter, American College of Physicians
Nancy Headley Representing the Commissioner, Alabama Medicaid Agency (Ex-Officio Member)
Michele Jones Representing the State Health  Officer (Ex-Officio Member)
Mark Chustz CEO, Greene County Hospital and Nursing Home, Eutaw (At-Large Member)
Artie Menefee Auburn University (At-Large Member)
John Wheat, M.D. University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa (At-Large Member)
William H. Coleman, M.D. University of Alabama at Birmingham, Huntsville (At-Large Member)
Joseph Marchant CEO, Bibb Medical Center, Centreville (At-Large Member)
John B. Thornton, D.M.D. UAB School of Dentistry (At-Large Member)
Michael Jones, A.P.R. Alabama Quality Assurance Foundation, Birmingham (At-Large Member)
Craig J. Lenz, D.O., FAODME Dean, Alabama College of Osteopathic Medicine, Dothan (At-Large Member)
John A. Little, M.P.H. Southeast Alabama Rural Health Associates, Troy (At-Large Member)
Benjamin P. Rackley Tuskegee Area Health Education Center (At-Large Member)
Andrea Pittman Eufaula (Student Member)

Executive Director - Dale Quinney, M.P.H.

Executive Committee:

R. Allen Perkins, M.D. (Chairperson)

Mary Finch, J.D.

Ellen Stone

Vacant

Chuck Lail

 

All administration positions in the Alabama Rural Health Association are voluntary with the exception being the Executive Director which is funded by a temporary grant from the National Rural Health Association.  ARHA would like to thank these volunteers for their exceptional showing of concern for the health of Alabama's rural citizens.  ARHA would also like to extend an invitation to others (individuals, students, and organizations) to join ARHA and become active in shaping the future of rural healthcare in Alabama.

 

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