PAs Go Beyond

Psychiatry PA Jessica Tabb has worked with a wide age range of patients in a variety of settings, providing them with individualized care and helping them gain trust in mental health care. Also an advocate for health equity, she believes all PAs can help expand access to mental health care.

For PA Kevin Riddleberger, improving care delivery models is both his passion and his profession. As the co-founder and chief strategy officer of DispatchHealth, Riddleberger leads a rapidly expanding network of providers who bring emergency and hospital medicine directly to the patient’s front door.

Josh Thornhill sees patients every day as a PA at NorthCrest Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine in Springfield, Tennessee. But on Tuesday evenings, Thornhill takes care of other people: approximately 100 men and women who come to an area church to confront their addictions and to deal with their anger, depression, and anxiety.

As a PA working at the designated Local Mental Health Authority in El Paso, Texas, Elisa Hock serves on the frontline of mental healthcare. Speaking from her own experience, she is adamant that PAs are integral to ensuring patients have timely access to psychiatric care.

When PAs Mary Banahan and Amy Roberts learned that Indigenous women have higher rates of pregnancy-associated suicide, they set out to make a difference. Both women are open about their own past mental health struggles and hope their stories help to raise awareness.

Greg Cain, PA-C, owns three primary care clinics in rural Tennessee. Having been born and raised in a small town in rural Tennessee, Cain has a unique perspective and endearing approach that resonates with each of his patients.