Piedmont Area Health Education Center, located in Greensboro, North Carolina, is affiliated with the NC AHEC Program and the School of Medicine at UNC Chapel Hill.
Mission
Piedmont AHECās mission is to provide and support educational activities and services with a focus on primary care in rural communities and those with less access to resources to recruit, train, and retain the workforce needed to create a healthy North Carolina.
Service Area
Piedmont AHEC serves eight counties in North Carolina: Alamance, Chatham, Caswell, Guilford, Montgomery, Orange, Randolph, and Rockingham.
Located in the mountains of Western North Carolina, MAHEC is a national leader in innovative team-based primary care, medical education, and rural health workforce development. MAHECās main campus in Asheville, NC is home to primary care practices, graduate medical education programs, continuing professional development programs, a state-of-the-art medical simulation center, and UNC Health Sciences at MAHEC, an academic health center that promotes interprofessional education and practice through programs affiliated with the University of North Carolinaās top-ranked schools of medicine, public health, pharmacy, and dentistry.
MISSION
MAHEC provides and supports educational activities and services in the western part of the state with a focus on primary care in rural communities and those with less access to resources to recruit, train, and retain the workforce needed to create a healthy North Carolina.
SERVICE AREA
MAHEC serves patients, healthcare professionals, learners, and community partners throughout a 16-county region in Western North Carolina. Counties served are Buncombe, Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Haywood, Henderson, Jackson, Macon, Madison, McDowell, Mitchell, Polk, Rutherford, Swain, Transylvania, and Yancey.
SUB-REGIONS
MAHEC employs more than 1,100 faculty and staff members at its patient care practices, academic health center, and rural and hospital-based residency and fellowship programs. View MAHEC locations.
CORE SERVICES & DISTINCTIVE PROGRAMS
MAHEC operates patient care offices and residency programs in dentistry, family medicine, general surgery, internal medicine, obstetrics and gynecology, pharmacy, psychiatry, and transitional year. MAHECās fellowship programs include addiction medicine, maternal fetal medicine, psychiatry, rural medicine, sports medicine, and surgical critical care.
Other core services include: Continuing Professional Development, Health Careers Pipeline Programs, AHEC Scholars, Student Services, Practice Consulting, Library Services, and Research.
School of Medicine Asheville Campus Master of Public Health Program (UNC Gillings School – UNC Asheville) Adams Rural Oral Health and Wellness Scholars (School of Dentistry)
Distinctive MAHEC programs include the Center for Health Aging, Centering Pregnancy, Certified Community Behavioral Health Center, Project CARA, Minority Medical Mentoring Program, Post-Acute COVID-19 Care Clinic, Project ECHO virtual case-based learning, Project PROMISE (rural health careers programming), rural health workforce initiatives, a state-of-the-art medical simulation center, and statewide initiatives to expand access to substance use disorder treatment.
GOVERNANCE & LEADERSHIP
Mountain Area Health Education Center, Inc. (MAHEC) is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization. MAHECās board of directors, comprised of community leaders and representatives from across Western North Carolina, guides the strategic growth and direction of the organization.
William Hathaway, MD, MAHEC CEO Amy Russell, MD, Chief Medical and Population Health Officer Jeff Pigg, Chief Operations Officer Annie McClintic, Chief Talent Officer Francisco Castelblanco, RN, DNP, AHEC Director; Chair, Department of Continuing Professional Development Zach Levin, CPA, Chief Financial Officer Steve Buie, MD, Chair, MAHEC Department of Psychiatry Beth Buys, MD, Chair, MAHEC Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology Stephanie Call, MD, Chair, MAHEC Department of Internal Medicine Stephanie Rosener, MD, Chair, MAHEC Department of Family Medicine Bryan Hodge, DO, Chair, Department of Community and Public Health Katherine Jowers, DDS, Chair, MAHEC Department of Oral Health and Dentistry Ameena Batada, DrPH, MPH, Co-Director, UNC Asheville-UNC Gillings MPH Program Sarah Thach, MPH, Co-Director, UNC Asheville-UNC Gillings MPH Program Sandra Whitlock, MD, Director and Assistant Dean, UNC School of Medicine, Asheville Campus Mollie Scott, PharmD, Regional Associate Dean, UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy; Chair, Department of Pharmacotherapy at UNC Health Sciences at MAHEC
In addition to continuing professional development opportunities, South Piedmont AHEC provides eight North Carolina counties with a variety of support services, including medical media, AHEC library, immersive technologies, practice support, and student services.
MISSION
South Piedmont AHEC, a department of Atrium Health now part of Advocate Health, provides and supports educational activities and services with a focus on primary care in rural communities and those with less access to resources to recruit, train, and retain the workforce needed to create a healthy North Carolina.
South Piedmont AHEC serves eight North Carolina counties.
SERVICE AREA
South Piedmont AHEC serves eight counties in North Carolina: Anson, Cabarrus, Cleveland, Gaston, Lincoln, Mecklenburg, Stanly, and Union.
CORE SERVICES & DISTINCTIVE PROGRAMS
South Piedmont AHECās programs and services include immersive technologies; continuing medical education; quality education; education in allied health, behavioral health, care management, dental, diversity, leadership, nursing, pharmacy, and public health; and more:
Northwest AHEC provides accredited health education and training activities across the continuum of educationāhigh school, post-secondary school, graduate/professional school, and continuing education to health professionals.
MISSION
The Northwest AHEC of Wake Forest University School of Medicine and part of the North Carolina AHEC Program provides and supports educational activities and services with a focus on primary care in rural communities and those with less access to resources to recruit, train, and retain the workforce needed to create a healthy North Carolina.
Northwest AHEC’s service area includes 17 counties.
SERVICE AREA
Northwest AHECās service area encompasses 17 counties in Northwest North Carolina: Alexander, Alleghany, Ashe, Avery, Burke, Caldwell, Catawba, Davidson, Davie, Forsyth, Iredell, Rowan, Stokes, Surry, Watauga, Wilkes, and Yadkin.
CORE SERVICES & DISTINCTIVE PROGRAMS
Northwest AHECās core services and distinctive programs include:
Northwest AHEC is formally part of and reports to the dean of the Wake Forest University School of Medicine. Northwest AHEC remains a formal public-private partnership between the deans of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine and Wake Forest University School of Medicine. Wake Forest University School of Medicine is part of the Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, which is governed by a full Board of Trustees.
Michael Lischke, EdD, MPH, Richard Janeway, MD, Distinguished Director, Northwest AHEC Reed Burger, MBA, CHFP, Assistant Director, Finance and Administration Nedra Edwards Hines, MHA, CDP, Assistant Director, Continuing Professional Development Christopher Jones, DrPH, MHA, Assistant Director, Quality and Informatic
CONTACT INFORMATION
Mailing Address: Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Medical Center Blvd, Winston-Salem, NC 27157-1060 Physical Address: Piedmont Plaza I, 1920 West 1st Street, Winston-Salem, NC 27104 Phone: 336-713-7700 Email: ahecmktg@wakehealth.edu Website: wakehealth.edu/northwest-ahec
