Dear AKAPA Current and Past Members,

Greetings for 2023!  We hope the new year finds you enjoying Alaska in your most favorite ways.

We have recently been made aware of a special Zoom meeting to be held by the Alaska State Medical Board on Thursday, February 2, 2023 from 4 to 6 pm.  The medical board will be discussing PA regulations.  

As discussed at our annual meeting during the All-Alaska Medical Conference, our AKAPA legislative committee has participated in multiple working group meetings over the last year with both the State Medical Board and the Alaska State Medical Association.  We have been actively engaged in discussions for updating and modernizing our regulations to more accurately portray what we do as a profession in the unique state of Alaska. Further information on this can be found on our website here.  

We would like to make a call for your Zoom attendance on February 2nd.  The strong attendance of Alaskan PAs at this meeting will demonstrate our commitment to updated and modernized PA regulations in Alaska.  We will not have the opportunity to speak at this special board meeting, and there will be no public comment session, but it will give us an opportunity to see where we are working from.  There will be a regularly scheduled quarterly Medical Board meeting on the 10th of February and we will have opportunity to give public comment at that time.

Please feel free to reach out to any board members for more information.

We appreciate your support and hard work as PAs in Alaska. 

We look forward to seeing you at this meeting. 

State Medical Board Special Meeting Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82156638845?pwd=REJYd1lUMzRkWU5yM2ZKOWUrL21DZz09

Meeting ID: 821 5663 8845
Passcode: 400913

Sincerely, 

AKAPA Board of Directors
Jennifer Fayette, PA-C
President, Board of Directors
AKAPA
(907) 891-1697
jennyfayette@yahoo.com
https://akapa.org