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The Physician Assistant Studies program, part of the Department of Allied Health Sciences, welcomed twenty students to the class of 2021 with a white coat ceremony on January 16, 2020. This year’s cohort of students is one-quarter veterans, and nearly forty percent were raised in a medically underserved area.

Name: Eulalia Barajas-Graham Program: Physician Assistant Studies

Name: Stacy Wilson Program: Division of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy

Name: Christian Long Program: Division of Clinical Laboratory Science

Name: Shakeia Burgin Program: Division of Speech and Hearing Sciences

Name: Latonya Brown-Puryear Program: Division of Radiologic Science

The Department of Allied Health Sciences (DAHS) has named John Grose as its associate chair for research and scholarship, which leads research across seven disciplines and several units in the health care spectrum. Grose, a professor in both the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery (OHNS) and in the DAHS...

Jackson Roush, a professor and clinically trained audiologist in the Division of Speech and Hearing Sciences, has received the 2019 Carolina Institute for Developmental Disabilities (CIDD) Impact Award.

The Society of Emergency Medicine Physician Assistants (SEMPA) has named Janelle Bludorn, a clinical assistant professor in the Physician Assistant Studies program, as its vice president for 2020-2021.

An essay written by Cameron Coppala ’19 regarding ethics and use of social media has received a second-place award from the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association’s annual ethics essay contest.