A group of 80 physicians, professors, students, staff, and UW School of Medicine representatives took part in the 2003 Alaska WWAMI Program Physician Appreciation Dinner on Oct. 13.

The bi-annual dinner, held at the Anchorage Museum of History and Art, honors those who help with the WWAMI program in Alaska. The event, which was emceed by Thomas Nighswander, clinical coordinator for Alaska WWAMI, featured remarks from Chancellor Lee Gorsuch of the University of Alaska Anchorage, John Coombs, associate dean for regional affairs at the UW, and Norman Beauchamp, professor and chair of the UW Department of Radiology.

Coombs recognized the following faculty members for their enthusiastic and sustained support of the Alaska WWAMI program over many years: Molly Southworth, member of the admissions committee and participant in the first-year program; Steve Tierney, coordinator of the family medicine clerkship at Alaskan Native Medical Center (ANMC); Jon Lyon, head of the pediatric clerkship at Providence Hospital; Rob Reeg, formerly the head of the family medicine clerkship at ANMC; and Ray Bailey, interim director of the first-year program.

Beauchamp, the keynote speaker, gave an address entitled “The Emerging Field of Linking Brain Imaging and Function.”

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