AHEC Stories
Marilyn
Marilyn, an adjunct clinical instructor at Asheville-Buncombe Tech Allied Dental Clinic, has been attending continuing education courses at MAHEC since around the time she graduated in 1981. She used to occasionally travel out of the area to maintain her licensure credits, but she doesn't have to travel much anymore thanks to the quantity, quality, and variety of CPD courses provided through NC AHEC. [...]
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Sandy Walton, LMFT, RN-BC, CNS
AHECās clinical, practical workshops and convenient continuing professional development courses are what Sandy Walton, a mental health therapist for more than 35 years, emphasizes when she is asked how AHEC has touched her life. A clinical nurse specialist/adult psychotherapist and licensed marriage and family therapist, Walton is the owner of Life Quest, which provides individual, couples, and family therapy. [...]
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Donna Flake, MLS, MSAS
Donna Flake, MLS, MSAS, leads the South East AHEC Robert M. Fales Health Sciences Library at New Hanover Regional Medical Center (NHRMC), the largest health [...]
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Luke Smith, MD
“During residency training at NC AHEC sites, I worked exclusively with Spanish-speaking Latino patients. I learned of the great need for Spanish-speaking, culturally-appropriate behavioral health [...]
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Ladson Gaddy-Dubac, MD
Three years ago, Ladson Gaddy-Dubac, MD, stepped into her new career as the first ObGyn in rural Franklin, North Carolina. Starting a new practice on her own at Angel Medical Center was a little unnerving, but Gaddy-Dubac felt prepared from her residency at MAHEC. āComing to an area with limited resources can be frightening, but having the relationship with MAHEC and knowing I had a team there to help me with high-risk patients was reassuring,ā she said. [...]
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