PAs Go Beyond

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.

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.

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.

Every month, Jordan Braman, DMSc, PA-C, EMT-P, steps away from his full-time role in the ICU in Chelsea, Michigan, and travels to New Mexico to work a 96-hour shift as a flight PA for an air medical transport service. He and his crew serve a sprawling, mostly rural region in southeastern New Mexico, responding to numerous inter-facility patient transfers and high-stakes emergencies in remote locations.