{"id":4789,"date":"2016-08-26T07:30:55","date_gmt":"2016-08-26T12:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/?p=4789"},"modified":"2016-08-25T15:13:56","modified_gmt":"2016-08-25T20:13:56","slug":"4789","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/2016\/08\/26\/4789\/","title":{"rendered":"UNMC PAs celebrate IPAP&#8217;s 25th anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\"><p>Wayne Mathews, MS, PA-C, DFAAPA, associate program director in physician assistant education, recently attended the Military Inter-services PA graduation at Joint Base Fort Sam Houston, TX.\u00a0 The program, of which UNMC is the degree granting institution, is celebrating their 25th anniversary.<\/p>\n<p>Mathews, a Vietnam Navy veteran, was a guest speaker on the birth of the PA profession in the military in Vietnam.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I spoke of some of my experiences, including the largest evacuation in military history,&#8221; Mathews said, &#8220;and what it was like to triage,\u00a0in one day, the 6000 patients who had fled Vietnam on the SS Pioneer Contender.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wayne Mathews, MS, PA-C, DFAAPA, associate program director in physician assistant education, recently attended the Military Inter-services PA graduation at Joint Base Fort Sam Houston, TX.\u00a0 The program, of which UNMC is the degree granting institution, is celebrating their 25th anniversary. Mathews, a Vietnam Navy veteran, was a guest speaker on the birth of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":109,"featured_media":4790,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[50,45,46,7,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-deans-office","category-frontpage","category-health","category-kudos","category-physician-assistant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/109"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4789"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4793,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4789\/revisions\/4793"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}