Duke Physician Assistant Program News & Blogs

Quincy Jones, Mara Sanchez, and Susan Hibbard Receive PAEA STAR Program Recognition

Quincy Jones, MSW, MHS, PA-C; Mara Sanchez, MMS, PA-C, RD; Susan Hibbard, PhD;  and Joanne Rolls, MPAS, MEHP, PA-C, assistant professor at the University of Utah, have been recognized by PAEA's Support to Advance Research (STAR) Program for their proposal, LGBTQ Curricula in Physician Assistant Programs. Their study focuses on the amount and delivery of curricular content related to caring for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) populations.

Duke PA Program Students Doing Critical Work of Contact Tracing at Durham County Public Health Department

When Duke University School of Medicine students were pulled from clinical rotations on March 17 as a result of the COVID-19 global pandemic, Megan Brown felt lost. As a second-year student in the Duke Physician Assistant Program, she was in the middle of a women’s health rotation, looking ahead to graduation and contemplating her future career as a physician assistant (PA).

Limitless: Roles for PAs Continue to Evolve

Note: This story was first published in the spring 2020 edition of the Duke Physician Assistant Program alumni magazine. It was written and reported in December 2019.

 

Meet Rachel Porter, Ph.D.

Rachel Porter, Ph.D.
Rachel Porter, Ph.D.

Rachel Porter, Ph.D., was recently promoted to a faculty position in the Duke Physician Assistant Program and will serve as the senior education strategist.

Duke PA Faculty Everett, Morgan Co-Authors on PAEA Article of the Year

A paper co-authored by Chris Everett, Ph.D, MPH, PA-C, and Perri Morgan, Ph.D., PA-C, won Article of the Year at the PAEA Education Forum in Washington, D.C., on October 10. The article, "Intermediate Diabetes Outcomes in Patients Managed by Physicians, Nurse Practitioners, or Physician Assistants: A Cohort Study," was published in Annals of Internal Medicine in December of 2018 (e-published in November of 2018).