Alma Littles, M.D., dean of the Florida State University College of Medicine, has been appointed to a four-year term on the Graduate Medical Education Committee for the state of Florida Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA).

She was appointed by Dr. Deborah German, chair of the Council of Florida Medical School Deans (CFMSD). Littles serves as vice chair of the council, which includes the deans of every public and private medical school in the state.

Littles, senior associate dean for medical education and academic affairs at the College of Medicine since 2003,  is no stranger to serving on advisory committees for state agencies. At AHCA, she previously served on the Comprehensive Health Information System Advisory Council (2006-2008), as well as the Family Medicine Resident Recruitment and Retention Committee (1995-2012), chairing it from 2001 to 2012.

A member of the Florida Department of Health (DOH) Physicians Workforce Advisory Council (2015-2019), including the last two years as char, she also served on the Florida Correctional Medical Authority (2009-2012). Littles has served on the National Board of Medical Examiners’ Advisory Committee for Medical School Programs since 2013.

German, vice president for health affairs and dean of the College of Medicine at the University of Central Florida, also appointed Joan St. Onge, M.D., senior associate dean at the University of Miami’s Miller School of Medicine, and Stephen Cico, M.D., associate dean for graduate medical education at UCF.

In addition to German’s three appointments, the Graduate Medical Program Committee includes four appointees by the governor, two each by the AHCA secretary and the state surgeon general and one each by the president of the Florida Senate and the speaker of the Florida House of Representatives.

AHCA was created by the Florida Legislature as part of the Health Care Reform Act of 1992 and is tasked with managing the state’s Medicaid program, as well as overseeing the licensure of the state’s health care facilities.