Director of Pre-Clinical Education and Clinical Assistant Professor
Jen Vonderau, PA-C, is the Director of Preclinical Education and has been a Clinical Assistant Professor with the UNC PA Program since 2021. She started providing medical education to UNC PA students as an adjunct faculty member in 2018 in the Fundamentals of Surgery course, as her clinical training is in abdominal transplant, hepatobiliary, and general surgery. Jen continues to provide clinical care in hepatobiliary and abdominal transplant surgery, including the Chronic Pancreatitis and Autologous Islet Transplant Program and Latinx Kidney Transplant clinic.
Jen’s educational mission includes advancing diagnostic reasoning and evidence-based medical practice through interactive class sessions and case-based learning. She is also an advocate of a longitudinal medical Spanish curriculum offered to preclinical and clinical phase PA students.
Email: jennifer_vonderau@med.unc.edu
Office: Bondurant Hall room 3028
Education
Bachelor of Science—Psychology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2009
Master of Medical Science—Physician Assistant Studies, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, 2013
