Governor
Ross B. Vaughn, MD FACP
Dr. Vaughn serves as the official representative of the College for the Alabama Chapter, providing a link between members at the local level and leadership at the national level. To learn more about Dr. Vaughn, read his bio.
Welcome Letter | Past Governors | Governor-elect
Governor's Advisory Council
Immediate Past Governor: William Curry, Birmingham
Gustavo Heudebert, Birmingham
Treasurer: Pink Folmar, Birmingham
Membership Chair: Hernando Carter, Birmingham
Wellness Champion: Lauren Pacheco, Birmingham
Program Chairs: Rob Smola and Allison Rogers, Birmingham
Council Class of 2023
Tyler Butts, Mobile
Hernando Carter, Birmingham
Brad McAnalley, Sheffield
Roger Smalligan, Huntsville
Council Class of 2024
Alan Baggett, Owens Crossroads
Ryan Kraemer, Birmingham
Haley Ballard, Mobile
Rebecca Byrd, Mountain Brook
Council Class of 2025
Lakeisha Moore-Smith, Birmingham
Dibyajiban Mahapatra, Huntsville
Alonso Heudebert, Birmingham
T. J. Hundley, Mobile
Medical Student Representatives
Meghan Olivet, UAB
Jack Galla, USA
TBA, VCOM
TBA, ACOM
Council of Medical Student Members
Craig Hoesley, Birmingham, UAB Faculty Advisor and Chapter Coordinator
T.J. Hundley, Mobile, USA Faculty Advisor
Rekha Lall, Auburn, VCOM Faculty Advisor
TBA, ACOM Faculty Advisor
Resident and Fellow Council Representative: Dan Spell, UAB
Council of Resident and Fellow Members
Alonso Heudebert, UAB Faculty Advisor and Chapter Coordinator
Council of Early Career Physicians
Alan Baggett, Co-Chair, Huntsville
Allison Rogers, Co-Chair, Birmingham
Stephen Stuart, Birmingham
Andrew Hodges, Scottsboro
Awards
2024 Evergreen Award
The John Tooker Evergreen Awards Program provides recognition and visibility to chapters that have successfully implemented programs to increase membership, improve communication, encourage member involvement, enhance diversity, foster careers in internal medicine or improve chapter management. Our Chapter received the 2024 John Tooker Evergreen Award for the initiative, Laureate Society Fellowship Program.
2023 Chapter Excellence Award
We are pleased to announce that our chapter is in receipt of the Silver Level of the 2023 Chapter Excellence Award! Only 11 chapters received the Silver Award. The award recognizes chapters that achieve excellence in chapter management. In order to achieve the Chapter Excellence Award, chapters must meet nineteen Bronze criteria and seventeen Silver criteria. Criteria include such activities as undertaking efforts to increase advocacy efforts, collaborating with stakeholders to increase visibility of the ACP, holding competitions for members, providing chapter financial reports to members, having Medical Student and Resident/Fellow members on the Governor's Advisory council, retaining transitional and unpaid members, giving awards to chapter members.
Award Archives
Laureate | Laureate Society | Masterships | Alabama Chapter College Awards