Beth Landon directs the Alaska Center for Rural Health, Alaska's AHEC, which is the country's first AHEC housed in a School of Nursing. In this capacity at the University of Alaska Anchorage, Ms. Landon is responsible for building and coordinating the AHEC Program, leading various health workforce development committees, conducting research in and for frontier communities, publishing the only statewide newsletter focused on rural health, and supporting mechanisms to improve coordination and sustainability of Alaska's complex rural and frontier health care system.

Ms. Landon's research experience spans a dozen years and reaches from rural to frontier areas in Alaska and the northwest. Ms. Landon started with community-based participatory research to assess health needs in communities and tribal health organizations and expanded to federally-funded evaluations and statewide health professions workforce studies.

Ms. Landon is President of the National Rural Health Association. Her six years of service on the Board of Trustees and the Rural Health Policy Congress have included five years as Chair of the Frontier Constituency Group, lead author on a variety of policy briefs, and leader of a nine state collaboration towards agreement on a HPSA designation for frontier and continuing work on a response to the recently released regulations for health professional shortage areas.

Ms. Landon has a Bachelor of Science degree in biology from Occidental College. She has a Master of Business Administration and Master of Health Services Administration from the University of Washington. Prior to graduate school, she served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Thailand.

Paul is Immediate Past-President of the National Rural Health Association and brings a lifetime of experience related to rural healthcare, from both his family heritage and more than thirty years in community and hospital pharmacy. He now divides his time between his own rural community pharmacy, consulting state and federal stakeholders and providing remote pharmacist services to small, rural hospitals. In addition, he is actively involved in addressing national policy issues regarding Medication Safety and Utilization in small, rural hospitals along with the Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit and the potential impact on rural access to pharmacy services.