Early-Career PA William Lara Aims to Provide Care to the Underserved Community in Rural Nevada

In the early 2000s, eight-year-old William Lara was diagnosed with a tumor in his lower back. He grew up in Mesquite, Nevada, where healthcare access was a challenge. Lara had to travel about an hour away for surgery and follow-up care. Now, having recently graduated from PA school, he has a long-term goal of returning to Mesquite to open a much-needed family practice to care for the underserved.

September 19, 2025

PA April Gulotti is Making an Impact on the Global Water Crisis

In 2015, April Gulotti was a recent undergraduate working in Peru, where she had inspiring conversations with local providers and staff about the global water crisis. Five years later, Gulotti founded The Maji Movement, a nonprofit that has donated hundreds of biosand filters to Tanzanian families and that educates U.S. youth about the importance of clean water.

September 2, 2025

PAs Help Expand Mental Health Services to Alaska’s Most Remote Communities

PAs at Rural Psychiatry Associates—like Devon Anderson, MPAS, CAQ-Psyc, PA-C, Mitchell Forbes, PA-C, and Rebekah Laupp, PA-C—use telemedicine to provide mental health services to patients with limited access to care. Throughout the year, they travel across the country to deliver in-person psychiatric care to patients in rural Alaska.

August 28, 2025

PA Sutton Became the First Altruistic Living Kidney Donor in South Carolina, and Now Leads the South Carolina Transplant Foundation

As a PA student, Zachary Sutton became the first altruistic living kidney donor in South Carolina. Fifteen years later, he co-founded the South Carolina Transplant Foundation to provide education, financial assistance, and supportive services to organ transplant patients. In 2025, the foundation organized the inaugural National Kidney Donor Triathlon.

August 1, 2025

Providing Care to Communities in Need in Guatemala

Captain Bechara Rahbani, a physician associate with the U.S. Air Force, fulfilled a long-held dream when he was chosen for a 10-day medical mission in Nuevo Progreso, Guatemala. Rahbani provided much-needed care at the local hospital and in the villages and taught his specialized skills to Guatemalan providers.

July 14, 2025

An Emergency that Led to Friendship: Two PAs Meet on Their Way to AAPA’s Annual Conference

During the three-and-a-half-hour flight from Washington D.C. to Denver, PA Kristin Salter experienced two seizures and had to be rushed to the ICU upon landing. PA Brandon Beattie, Assistant Professor at George Washington University’s PA program and former U.S. Army Medic, responded to the call for medical personnel and helped stabilize her until the paramedics could transfer her to the hospital.

July 7, 2025

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