WWAMI supports AHEC programs in 5 States

WWAMI is a regional medical education program that takes its name from the first letter of each of the five states who work in partnership with the University of Washington School of Medicine: Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana and Idaho.  The UW WWAMI collaboration has been sponsoring regional AHEC programs since 1985.

Today, the regional WWAMI AHEC network includes the following: 
Washington AHEC has 2 regional centers, reflecting the fact that the state is divided by the Cascade Mountains with very different resources and needs in east and west.

Western Washington AHEC offices are in Seattle.
Eastern Washington AHEC offices are in Spokane.

Wyoming AHEC operates statewide programs from an office in Laramie.

Alaska AHEC has regional centers in each of the following areas:
1) Yukon Kuskokwim AHEC (hosted by Yukon
Kuskokwim Health Corporation)
2) Interior Alaska AHEC (hosted by Fairbanks Memorial
Hospital)
3) South Central AHEC (hosted by Providence Health
& Services Alaska)
4) Southeast Alaska AHEC (hosted by SouthEast
Alaska Regional Health Consortium (SEARHC)
5) Northwest AHEC (hosted by Ilisagvik College)
(The 2011 Annual Report for Alaska AHEC activities can be found HERE).  

Montana has program centers in four areas:
Western Montana AHEC is in Missoula.
Eastern Montana AHEC is in Billings.
North Central Montana AHEC is in Fairfield.
South Central Montana AHEC is in Dillon.

Idaho AHEC operates programs statewide from offices in Boise.

Each AHEC is incorporated as a non-profit organizations and has locally representative boards of directors or advisory committees. Leadership from the various centers meet as a group from time to time, convened by the AHEC program office in the UW Office of the Dean of the School of Medicine.

The WWAMI AHEC centers are among some 150 AHECs across the United States that comprise a national network which is in place to address emerging health care concerns, ranging from the need for a primary care workforce to the need for expanded training in bioterrorism defense.