May 27, 2020
ABC 11 recently featured Kami Harris (MHS ‘17), an alumna of the Physician Assistant Studies program, in a mental health tool kit series as part of the response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Harris said self-care is important, especially during the pandemic. Harris recommended journaling, listening to music, and using meditation apps to take care of …
May 4, 2020
Second-year Physician Assistant Studies students are teaming up at UNC-Chapel Hill’s Be a Maker (BeAM) makerspace where the University community can design and make of physical objects for education, research, entrepreneurship and recreation to assemble personal protective equipment (PPE) in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Lindsey Price and Alison Baron-Johnson, whose clinical rotations are put …
April 30, 2020
Alec Fields, a second-year student in Physician Assistant Studies who began to use his personal 3D printer to create much-needed brackets for personal protective equipment (PPE) in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, has received numerous requests for the brackets from around the country. Fields, a veteran and former fleet Marine force hospital corpsman, estimates he …
April 27, 2020
Emily Wilkins is a second-year Physician Assistant Studies student from Rutherfordton, North Carolina who returned to work in neighboring Hendersonville as a paramedic during the COVID-19 pandemic to serve our state. With student clinical rotations on hold, Wilkins decided her experience as a paramedic prior to PA school would be beneficial to rural communities. “The …
April 15, 2020
When the COVID-19 pandemic began, second-year Physician Assistant Studies student Alec Fields, a veteran and former fleet Marine force hospital corpsman, began to use his 3D printer to create much-needed brackets for personal protective equipment (PPE) for health care providers in eastern North Carolina. Fields’ mother-in-law, who works at CarolinaEast Medical Center, told him the …
February 26, 2020
The journal published by the Physician Assistant Education Association (PAEA) recently featured an article coauthored by Janelle Bludorn, a clinical assistant professor in Physician Assistant Studies. The article, titled “Inspiring the Future of Physician Assistsant Ultrasound Education,” focuses on integrating point-of-care ultrasound into PA education.
January 27, 2020
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. During the ceremony, Paul Chelminski, the …
January 24, 2020
Name: Eulalia Barajas-Graham Program: Physician Assistant Studies Graduation Year: 2017 Current Employer and Job Title: PA-C. SRMC at Red Springs Family Medicine Tell us about your job: I am currently working as a physician assistant in a rural clinic in Red Springs, North Carolina. Being a PA has provided me the opportunity to help people …
January 17, 2020
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. According to its website, the society strives to advance, protect, and promote the role of emergency medicine PAs through education, advocacy, collaboration and research. Previously, Bludorn has …
December 18, 2019
The Physician Assistant Studies program, housed in the Department of Allied Health Sciences, held its third commencement ceremony on December 14, 2019. Paul Chelminski, the program’s director, welcomed and thanked the graduates’ supporters, their families, and the commencement speaker, Karen Hills, longtime faculty and former program director of the Duke University Physician Assistant Program. “Always …
November 11, 2019
Alec Fields, a former fleet Marine force hospital corpsman, discovered a passion for medicine while in charge of the health and wellbeing of the Marines with whom he was stationed in Afghanistan. “I always knew I wanted to do something in medicine or in the medical field,” Fields said. “I loved the experience. It was …
September 5, 2019
Jason Hrdina, PA-C, has graduated from the UNC School of Medicine Teaching Scholars Program, which aims to enhance medical education at the University. He joins Kathryn “Katie” Sorensen, OTD, OTR/L, as part of this year’s scholar cohort.