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Alaska State Medical Association
4107 Laurel Street • Anchorage, Alaska 99508 • Phone: (907) 562-0304 • Fax: (907) 561-2063 •
 
 

Welcome to the Alaska State Medical Association

ASMA Staff
Executive Director - James J. Jordan
Executive Assistant - Kathryn South
Office Manager - Ginny Hamlin

Publications Director - K.T. Kelly
Physician Health Committee Coordinator - Verna Paluba

ASMA Board of Trustees
President – J Ross Tanner, DO - Anchorage
Past-President – Roland Gower, MD - Anchorage
President-Elect – Thomas Vasileff, MD - Anchorage
Secretary/Treasurer – Mary Ann Foland, MD - Anchorage

Secretary/Treasurer-Elect – Angelica Balingit, MD - Wasilla
Speaker of the House - John Raster, MD - Juneau
AMA Delegate - Alex Malter, MD - Juneau
AMA Alternate Delegate - Verner Stillner, MD - Juneau

ASMA House of Delegates  

Anchorage
Jana Cole, MD
Gil Dickie, MD
Dwight Ellerbe, MD
James Kallman, MD
Tim Kavanaugh, MD
Bruce Kiessling, MD
Alfred Lonser, MD

Micheal Manuel, MD
Robert Pease, MD
William Pease, MD
George D Rhyneer, MD
Thomas Senter, MD
J Ross Tanner, DO
Thomas Vasileff, MD
Paul Worrell, MD
Mark Zimmerman, MD

At Large
David Baines, MD
Richard Whitten, MD

Fairbanks
Cary Keller, MD
Peter Lawrason, MD

Juneau
Alex Malter, MD
John Raster, MD

Kachemak Bay
William Bell, MD

Kenai Peninsula
Peter Cannava, MD
Peter Hansen, MD

Ketchikan
Vacant

Matanuska-Susitna
Charles Kase, MD
David Rudolph, MD

Sitka-Mt Edgecumbe
Vacant

 
ASMA UPDATES:

2008 Medical Directories
For a 2008 Directory Order Form, please call 562-0304 for one to be faxed to you. The handy, 276-page directories are expected to be available by the end of March. Reserve yours now! (Note: Some price changes have been made for the 2008 Directory.) 


HEARTBEAT - the "pulse" of ASMA
The 12-page Heartbeat newsletter is published bimonthly by ASMA. Subscriptions are $15 per year. Existing subscribers with address changes please call the ASMA office. Please submit items of interest or advertisements to Publications Director K.T. Kelly at kkelly.asma@alaska.net

Alaska Medicine magazine changes underway! The 40-page quarterly publication will become a larger annual magazine beginning in September of 2008. It will still feature the latest scientific studies in Alaska, but also contain more human interest articles about the state's physicians and the practice environment. Subscription and advertising details to be released soon. Items of interest can be submitted to Publications Director K.T. Kelly at kkelly.asma@alaska.net

For a copy of the January/February/March 2008 issue of Alaska Medicine, please call 562-0304 or email kkelly.asma@alaska.net. For non-ASMA members, the magazine is $10 per issue. Members receive the publication for free.


Legislative Updates available on bills listed on this website by going to: http://w3.legis.state.ak.us/ and putting in the bill number (e.g., HB 113) in the "Search" box at the top of the page.


Looking for a Physician?
If you need a locum tenen or full-time physician, contact Kathryn for a "Looking" list. You can also post physician vacancies on our "Openings" list.