The Alberta Medical Association (AMA) is a voluntary organization for Alberta physicians that offers personal benefits to its members as well as communicating their professional interests and health care concerns to the government and the public. In 1986 it was authorized by the provincial government as the official bargaining agent for Alberta doctors.

After three years of informal meetings, the Academic Women's Association was formally begun in 1975 to encourage implementation of the recommendations of the University of Alberta Senate's Task Force on the Status of Women. The purpose of the association is to foster collegiality among academic women, to promote and encourage equal opportunities for women in university affairs, and to provide a forum and a mechanism for affirmative action for women at the university. The original name, Academic Women's Association of Alberta, was designed to provide an incorporated body under which branches from Alberta universities could function.