Alma B. Littles

Alma Littles is a family medicine physician who is the Dean and Chief Academic Officer at the Florida State University College of Medicine. In 2019, Littles received the Elizabeth Blackwell Award from the American Medical Women's Association.

Early life and education Littles was born in Quincy, Florida as the youngest of 12 children in a family of rural farm workers.

In 1999, Littles completed a fellowship in Faculty Development at the University of North Carolina.

Littles is a contributing author to the textbook Contemporary Challenges in Medical Education, published in 2019.

Awards and recognition In 1993, Littles was named "Florida Family Physician of the Year" by the Florida Academy of Family Physicians.

The Tallahassee Democrat named Littles one of the "25 Women You Need to Know in Tallahassee" in 2010. In 2014, she was named by Black Health magazine as one of the country's "Top 15 most Influential African American Medical Educators."

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