Community Matters
Building a professional community is not supplementary to AJMA’s mission — it is the mission.
Everything else — advocacy, education, research, patient support, and leadership development — depends on having a real, functioning professional community with the scale, credibility, and organizational infrastructure to act collectively.
AJMA is building the Jewish equivalent of professional healthcare organizations that other communities have benefited from for decades — creating the networks, mentorship, and institutional support that Jewish healthcare professionals have historically lacked.
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The Capter Network
AJMA operates through a network of local chapters across the United States.
Each chapter is based in a specific region and reflects the institutions, professionals, and needs of that area. At the same time, all chapters operate within a shared national framework that provides structure, coordination, and a unified organizational presence.
Connection within local healthcare communities
Collaboration across institutions and disciplines
Mentorship across career stages
Professional belonging within a national network
Shared infrastructure and resources across chapters
A collective organizational voice with national reach
A Community
Across Healthcare
AJMA brings together the full healthcare community — including physicians, nurses, mental health professionals, pharmacists, researchers, faculty, administrators, students, and allied health professionals.
This broad representation strengthens the organization’s ability to create meaningful connections, foster collaboration across disciplines, and build a professional community that reflects the healthcare system as a whole.
AJMA’s chapter network provides the structure that makes this community possible.
At the local level, chapters create opportunities for ongoing engagement within specific regions and institutions.
At the national level, AJMA provides the framework that connects these chapters into a single, coordinated network — enabling consistency, shared resources, shared identity, and a collective organizational voice that no individual chapter or member could have alone.
Mentorship & Professional Development
Mentorship is a core part of AJMA’s chapter model.
By formalizing and expanding mentorship opportunities across disciplines and career stages, AJMA is helping create a stronger pipeline for future generations of Jewish healthcare professionals.
The goal is simple: students and early-career professionals entering healthcare today should have access to the mentors, networks, and institutional support that many previous generations lacked.
Growth & Vision
AJMA’s chapter network continues to expand across the country.
In under two and a half years, it has grown to over 2,500 members across 45 chapters nationwide — without a marketing budget. That growth reflects a community that has been waiting for this kind of professional structure, belonging, and representation.
The chapter network is designed to support continued growth as a national professional institution.
AJMA’s long-term vision is to become a self-sustaining, nationally recognized, and institutionally credible organization — one that medical schools, hospitals, professional associations, and policymakers recognize as the authoritative voice of Jewish healthcare professionals in the United States.
