The Alabama Rural Health Association is pleased to welcome six new members of the Board that will begin a period of three years on July 1, 2024. These new members of the Board were nominated and voted by their peers through the State. Are the following:
LAMONT DUPREE
Executive Director
Health Education Center of the Northern Alabama area
Lamont Duprete is the new executive director of the Health Education Center of the Northern Alabama area (NA-AHEC) in Huntsville, al. It served in numerous positions for NA-AHEC since 2015, including the most recently associated director. Duration this time, Lamont supervised the team of community health workers in the center and the network of community health workers duration of the regional covid response of the organization in northern Alabama Rural. His passion for students and medical care led to his selection to the Committee of Credentials and Patillas of Alabama of Governor Ivey, Technical Advisory Committee of Health Sciences, where he serves as president. In addition, he was also appointed by the governor to serve in the Committee of the Study course of the Department of Education of the State of Alabama, HEALTH SCIENCES OF CARRERAS AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION. Lamont’s wealth, knowledge and passion for serving rural communities make him an ideal candidate for the Board of Directors of Arha.
Mack G. Fitz-Gerald
Director, clinical operations
Whitfield Regional Hospital
Mack has about thirty -five years of experience in the rural medical care environment and currently manages four full -time clinics, including two rural health clinics and two hospital clinics. Hospital clinics include an oncology clinic and a multiple suppliers that include cardiovascular, orthopedics, Ent, pain and surgery. In addition, Mack launched a fully customized mobile clinic that provides medical care on the site for local companies. His experience in the management of all commercial aspects of the operations of the Rural Health Clinic, first for a private practice of multiple suppliers and now for a rural hospital, gives him a unique perspective on the challenges faced by the suppliers of rural medical care.
Dr. Samuel Gillespie
Doctor
Lawrence Medical Center
Dr. Samuel Gillespie is one of the 9 suppliers within our rural health clinics. He is not only an outstanding doctor, but also a great teacher. It is well known in all aspects of patient care from your treatment plan to insurance and billing treatment. It is also identified as a great leader that all installation staff admire.
Dr. Tim Littmann
Family doctor
Family Medicine of Lake Martin
Tim Littmann, MD, is a family doctor at Lake Martin Family Medicine. Dr. Littmann received a Bachelor of Science in Zoology in 2011 and a Bachelor of Molecular Biology in 2014 from the University of Auburn. He graduated in 2018 with his Doctorate in Medicine of the UAB School of Medicine and completed his residence in the most large primary care practice of North Alabama in the Huntsville Family Medicine Residence program of the UAB. Duration of his residence, he was voted as the best resident teacher by his students and assistants. It continues to shape future generations of doctors and works as a preceptor for the Uab Heersink School of Medicine, the Rural Medicine Program of the University of Auburn, as well as with Edward through the Faculty of Osteopathic Medicine. Dr. Littmann developed an interest in rural health while following Lake Martin Community Hospital as a university student in Auburn. As a member of the Rural Medicine Program, he continued his studies in UAB with an approach in unattended areas. Hey also serves as a preceptor for the Rural Medicine student who goes to the UAB, as well as to the VCcom clinical faculty, teaching rural medicine rotations.
Dr. Zack Studstill
Executive Director
Alabama Dental Association
Dr. Zack Studtill, to Native of Andalusia, Graduated from the University of Alabama School of Dentistry and Practice General Dentistry in Montgomery, to the Until December or 2009. You have been involved in leadership posations with the alabama, Having or The America, Haved and the America AMERICA, HAVED AND THE AMERICA, HAVED AND THE AMERICA, HAVED AND THE AMERICA OR THE AMERICA OR THE AMERICA OR THE AMERICA OR THE AMERICA OR THE AMERICA OR THE AMERICA OR THE AMERICA O Organizations. As a member of the Council of Government Affairs of the American Dental Association, he had the opportunity to obtain experience in government matters as the Council developed a policy for dentistry at the national level. In 2010, Bocame. In his capacity as Executive Director, Dr. Studstill testified to the Legislative Committees of the Chamber of Representatives of Alabama and the Senate on Politics developed by the Legislet Council of the Alabama Dental Association. He was appointed by Governor Ivey to serve in the work group of the Joint LEGISLATIVE LEGISLATIVE LEGISLATIVE FORCE that was accused of addressing the scarcity of health professionals in the rural area of Alabama. As part of his lobbying duties for the Association, he developed collegiate labor relations with key legislators in the Chamber and the Senate of Alabama and the governor.
Dr. Mickey Trimm
Senior partner and vice president
KOble health services
JM “Mickey” Trimm, PHD has spent the last 45 years working in rural medical care in Alabama. Duration that time has worked in almost all segments of the State, from Tuscumbia to Fort Payne, to Brewon and Phenix City. He was a founding member of the Alabama Rural Health Association. He currently serves as a partner and senior vice president of Kble Health Services, where it is an answer to expand mental and behavioral health services through Alabama and Southeast. Before Kolbe Edutent in 2019, Dr. Trimm served in UAB as a professor and associate director of the Health Management and Leadership Center, the teaching of strategic management of medical care, research methods, information technology and supervised the development of the undergraduate internship program that places the sinks of students of students and the main consultant of Twomark Health Services, the organization which he founded in 1996 after his phd in his phd in his pH in his pH in the UAB. Twomark was created to help rural communities improve their medical attention. Drabded Designing, constructing, and obtaining certificate of need applications for hospitals, clinics, and ambulatory surgical centers in rural communities, reviews for critical access hospitals, commune needs in the biringmark, prior to foundmark, SPENTMARK, Foundmark, Foundmark, Foundmark, Foundmark, Foundmark, Foundmark, Foundmark, Foundmark, Foundmark, Foundmark, Foundmark, Foundmark Foundmark, Foundmark, Foundmark, Foundmark, Foundmark, Foundmark, Foundmark, Foundmark, Foundmark, Foundmark, Baptist Health System, Helping Build That System A 11 hospitals through the Alabama Rural Center. In addition to Dr. Trimm’s doctorate in health administration, he has an MBA from the University of Samford and a degree in Industrial Engineering from the University of Alabama. Dr. Trimm lives in Birmingham and has a farm in the rural county of Tuscaloosa.
The Alabama Rural Health Association is a member organization of more than 1,000 members supporting patients, suppliers and rural communities through the state of Alabama. For more information, visit http://www.arhaonline.org or call 334-697-8541.