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Inaugural 2022 AAPA Diversity Award Recipient Advocates for Faculty and Students of Color

Shani Fleming, MS, MPH, PA-C, is the 2022 recipient of the inaugural AAPA Diversity Award. An associate professor at the University of Maryland, Baltimore PA program whose scholarship addresses the need for greater diversity in the PA profession, she also serves as the graduate school’s chief equity, diversity, and inclusion officer.

May 18, 2022

2022 Preceptor of the Year Helped Students Adapt During COVID-19

Kelly Gassman, MPAS, PA-C, is the recipient of the Preceptor of the Year Award. Gassman is a PA in psychiatry in Omaha, Nebraska, helped design a psychiatry rotation schedule for University of Nebraska PA students, and has precepted over 40 PA students throughout four-week rotations.

May 18, 2022

2022 Publishing Award Recipient Uncovers Reasons PAs Leave Their Jobs

Harrison Reed, PA-C, is the recipient of the Publishing Award as the lead author of the paper, “Reasons PAs leave their jobs,” using AAPA survey data and published in the Journal of the American Academy of PAs.

May 18, 2022

2022 Outstanding Student Society is Equipped to Serve

This year’s Outstanding Student Society is the Campbell University Wallace Student Society, whose members demonstrated their commitment to community service through volunteering at vaccine clinics, high school health fairs, and a local medical center.

May 18, 2022

AAPA Announces New Ally in its Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Efforts Partner Program

AAPA is pleased to announce a new ally in its DE&I partner program. Vituity, a leader in multispecialty care that employs 1,500 PAs and NPs across the country, will support AAPA’s efforts to address health inequities among patients.

May 18, 2022

Nutrition Supports Immune Health

Abbott, a trusted nutrition partner of AAPA, provides resources and science-based nutrition products with nutrients to help support patients’ immune health.

May 12, 2022

Behind the Scenes of the House of Delegates Meeting

Though the HOD meeting takes place just once each year, the HOD’s work does not stop there. Learn more about the HOD policymaking and policy review process, and the important work that goes on behind the scenes on behalf of the profession.

May 10, 2022

Health Professionals to Explore Improving Well-Being of Clinicians, Clinical Students During AAPA 2022 Conference

The American Academy of Physician Associates (AAPA) will bring together thought leaders across health professions for a symposium exploring best practices to improve the well-being of clinicians and clinical students during its 2022 conference in Indianapolis, Indiana.

May 10, 2022

AAPA to Celebrate How PAs Go Beyond for Patients with PA, Astronaut, and Cancer Survivor Hayley Arceneaux

The American Academy of Physician Associates (AAPA) will celebrate the value of PAs in healthcare and how they “go beyond” for their patients and communities with history-making PA Hayley Arceneaux – the first PA, youngest American, first pediatric cancer survivor, and first person with a prosthetic body part to go to space.

May 5, 2022

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