Alice J. Watland
Deputy Executive Director

Alice Watland serves as the Deputy Executive Director for the American Telemedicine Association, and has overseen the growth of the ATA membership, Annual Meeting and Exhibition since 1998. Watland has over 20 years of experience in association management, economic development and analysis, metropolitan regional planning, survey research and federal lobbying and liaison work.

Before joining ATA, Watland was a Senior Program Officer at the National Academy of Science for the Transportation Research Board where she was in charge of transportation data policy issues. Prior to her work with the Academy, Watland was an independent consultant in the areas of strategic marketing and business and economic development. Her clients included government, associations and the private sector. Watland directed marketing for the Urban & Regional Information Systems Association, developed and managed the Greater Washington Economic and Demographic Survey for the Greater Washington Research Center, and served as a consultant on US - Russian trade opportunities for CSX and Global Development Services, Inc. She was also the first Director of Corporate Relations for the National Association of Area Agencies on Aging (NAAAA), and Manager of the National Data Network at the National Association of Regional Councils (NARC).

Prior to coming to Washington, Watland was Director of the Regional Economic Information Center for the Kansas City metropolitan area, and an Economic and Business Analyst at Midwest Research Institute where she conducted the economic impact study for major league baseball in Denver, and the World's Fair Application Analysis for the Kansas City 1997 World's Fair Committee.

Watland holds a Master of Arts degree in Sociology, Research Methods and Statistics (Summa cum laude) from the University of Missouri and a B.S. degree in Sociology from North Dakota State University.