Alma Littles, M.D., dean of the Florida State University College of Medicine, was elected vice president of the Florida Medical Association (FMA) at its Aug. 2-4 annual meeting in Orlando. The FMA is a professional organization representing more than 25,000 members on issues of legislation and regulatory affairs, medical economics and education, public health and ethical and legal issues.

Prior to being elected vice president, Littles served two years as FMA secretary.

“I am thrilled to continue my service with FMA — a great organization that advocates statewide for physicians and their patients,” Littles said. “Our ultimate goal is to help physicians practice medicine, enhancing the quality and availability of health care throughout the state — and this speaks directly to our mission at the college.”

Littles has been involved in medical education since 1989, when she began precepting, or training,  medical students and residents in her rural practice. She joined the faculty of the Family Medicine Residency Program at Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare in 1996 and became director of that program in 1999. A former president of the Capital Medical Society and the Florida Academy of Family Physicians, as well as former chair of the Academic Physicians Section of the American Medical Association, Littles has been actively involved in organized medicine since she was a medical student and is a longtime patient advocate.