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In late July 2018, first and second-year Physician Assistant Studies students, and two faculty mentors, provided health care in rural Wise, Virginia, through the Remote Area Medical (RAM) program, a nonprofit provider of mobile medical clinics. The RAM program delivers free dental, vision, and medical care to underserved and uninsured populations....

Paul Chelminski, MD, MPH, FACP, and director of Physician Assistant Studies, is part of a $9 million study to research the effects of cognitive behavior therapy and motivational therapy with the goal of better understanding ways to reduce the use of opioids. The study will look at the comparative effectiveness...

MD Magazine recently spoke with Paul Chelminski, MD, MPH, FACP, and director of Physician Assistant Studies, about the history of our PA program and how it supports the nontraditional student. Full story.  

Representatives from Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill gathered on Monday to celebrate an investment in the University’s Physician Assistant Studies program. Blue Cross NC announced the $1.2 million gift in February, building on its 2012 investment that established the PA master’s program. The...

Heather Asher Prince, adjunct faculty with the Physician Assistant Studies program, has received recognition as a distinguished fellow of the American Academy of Physician Assistants, among the highest honors for the PA profession. Asher Prince is the director of clinical operations for the clinical pharmacology and analytical chemistry core in the Division...

The Physician Assistant Studies program recognized its 20 graduates, including nine veterans, with a commencement ceremony held at the Medical Biomolecular Research Building (MBRB) in late December. The program, which welcomed its first class of students in January 2016, is a result of a public-private partnership that includes support from...

The Physician Assistant Studies program received recognition as part of Veterans Day celebrations at UNC-Chapel Hill on Friday, November 10, 2017. At the Tar Heel Tribute, the day’s first event, Chancellor Carol Folt commended the inaugural class of PA students, who will graduate on December 16, 2017. Tar Heel Tribute...

The North Carolina Academy of Physician Assistants (NCAPA) Endowment has awarded its first-ever scholarship earmarked for a UNC Physician Assistant Studies student to Alyse Moses-Lebron, a second-year student. Since the late 1990s, the endowment has provided scholarships to students to have completed their first year of PA education. “I am...

  Vishalee Patel, a first-year student in the UNC School of Medicine Physician Assistant Studies program, has recently been named assistant editor of First Rounds, a resource for PA students.   First Rounds, an online resource written for and by physician assistant students, has named Vishalee Patel as assistant editor. Patel...

In the second year of UNC’s Physician Assistant Program, applications were up, with more than 1,000 applicants for only 20 slots. The UNC Physician Assistant Program, part of the Department of Allied Health Sciences, recently accepted its second class of students, who will arrive in Chapel Hill to begin their...