Learn More & Apply to the NC AHEC Scholars Program at Your AHEC
To learn more about the NC AHEC Scholars Program and to view the specific application instructions for your AHEC, select the AHEC in the region where you are currently enrolled in a college-level health professions education training program in North Carolina.
Area L AHEC
Counties Served: Edgecombe, Halifax, Nash, Northampton, Wilson
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
Area L AHEC
South Piedmont AHEC
Eastern AHEC
Piedmont AHEC
Mountain AHEC (MAHEC)
Northwest AHEC
South East AHEC (SEAHEC)
Southern Regional AHEC
Wake AHEC
