Dr. Wheat

John Wheat, MD, MPH, Professor of Community and Rural Medicine at The University of Alabama and the University of Alabama School of Medicine, participated in a Kettering Foundation Seminar on Higher Education and Public Life held in Washington, D.C. in June, 2000. Dr. Wheat was involved in a planning group which worked on the mutual benefits of joint campus-community projects and breaking down the walls that often separate the "ivory tower" of higher education from the concerns of local communities. Dr. Wheat is the founder and director of Rural Scholar programs and works with a number of communities and organizations in the state to improve rural health services. He is also past president of the North American Agromedicine Consortium and was appointed by Governor Seigelman to represent Alabama on the federal Appalachian Regional Commission Health Policy Board.

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