Category: Dean’s Office
PAs garner grant to improve rural health
Carey Wheelhouse, MSPAS, PA-C, Principal Investigator, and Co-Investigators, Mia Hyde, MPAS, PA-C; Wayne Mathews, MS, PA-C; and Annie Wildermuth, MMS, PA-C, RD, were awarded a pilot grant from the Central State Center for Agricultural Safety. The purpose of their grant, “Improving Agricultural Worker Health and Safety Awareness through Multimodal, Case-Based Physician Assistant Education,” is to […]
Nov 7, 2018

Hanson, Anderson Berry, and team receive $1.2m for nutrition research with Norway
Corrine Hanson, PhD, PhD, RD, LMNT, FAND, and Ann Anderson Berry, MD, PhD, (Pediatrics) are part of a collaborative team that received $1.2m in funding from the University Board of the University of Agder in Christensand, Norway to work with the University of Agder to establish a Priority Research Center on Lifecourse Nutrition. Nina Obervy, […]
Oct 25, 2018

Celebrating PA Week: The History of the Physician Assistant Profession
In honor of National Physician Assistant Week, some of our PA students put together some information. They kick it off with a bit of history. With a lack of Primary Care providers, healthcare was not very accessible in the 1960’s. The solution was the creation of the Physician Assistant profession. It all began with Dr. […]
Oct 8, 2018

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