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PORTLAND, Maine

Maryfrances S. Smith and Sarah Dubay speak at National AHEC Organization conference

Maryfrances S. Smith, program manager for the Office of the Maine Area Health Education Center (AHEC) Network in UNE’s School of Community and Population Health, and Sarah Dubay, director of the Eastern Maine AHEC, participated in a panel on interprofessional clinical rotations at the National AHEC Organization’s Fall Policy Days in Washington, D.C. on December 3, 2014.

The audience included 100 AHEC Directors from across the country who sought practical hands-on knowledge about developing interprofessional rotations.

Both Smith and Dubay also met with Maine Congress delegates including Senator Angus King, and staff from the offices of Senator Susan Collins and Congresswoman Chellie Pingree, to discuss the role of the Maine AHEC Network in ensuring Mainers have access to health providers in rural and underserved areas. 

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The University of New England is Maine’s largest independent university, with two beautiful coastal campuses in Maine, a one-of-a-kind study abroad campus in Tangier, Morocco, and an array of flexible, accredited online degrees. In an uncommonly welcoming and supportive community, we offer hands-on learning, empowering students to make a positive impact in a world full of challenges. The state’s top provider of health professionals, we are home to Maine’s only medical college, Maine’s only dental college, a variety of other interprofessionally aligned health care degree programs, as well as nationally recognized programs for marine science degrees, natural and social sciences degrees, arts and humanities degrees, and business degrees.