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The March 2013 edition of AAMC Reporter features a story about the UNC physician assistant (PA) master’s degree program. Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina (BCBSNC) and the UNC School of Medicine are collaborating to create the program, which will be designed for returning military veterans. Click here...

Robert L. Hollingsworth, DHSc, PA-C, spoke to Physician Assistant Studies students and others as part of the Bullitt History of Medicine Club at the UNC Health Sciences Library on Tuesday, September 26, 2017. His talk, titled “The Physician Assistant: My Life in the Profession,” focused on a retrospective of his...

Gabrielle Neri-Mynatt, a second-year Physician Assistant Studies student at the UNC School of Medicine, was awarded a PA Foundation Scholarship in August 2017 along with 18 other PA students across the country. The PA Foundation scholarships focus on helping students who demonstrate a clear passion for the field and health care-related community...

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of NC highlights Physician Assistant Studies second-year student Eulalia Barajas-Graham’s experience in the program. Barajas-Graham is set to graduate from the PA program in December 2017. Blue Cross and Blue Shield of NC recently spoke with Eulalia Barajas-Graham, who will graduate from the UNC School...

Ten students from the Division of Physician Assistant Studies volunteered the weekend of July 21, 2017, to serve at the Remote Area Medical’s mobile clinic. On Friday, July 21, 2017, Division of Physician Assistant Studies Director Paul Chelminski, MD, Assistant Professor Todd Williams, MMS, PA-C, and 10 students from the...

Physician Assistant Studies student Alyse Moses-Lebron traveled to her home state of Louisiana during the month of August. Just days after returning home, she found herself volunteering at emergency shelters to help survivors of mass flooding. The rain begins When UNC Physician Assistant Studies first-year student Alyse Moses-Lebron left the...

Retired Green Beret medic Todd Williams earned three Bronze Stars and two Defense Meritorious Service Medals, among other service recognitions, during his distinguished 28-year military career. Today, he helps lead nontraditional students, including military veterans with medical experience, on a path toward becoming physician assistants through the UNC School of...

On Thursday evening, January 21, 2016, the inaugural class of 20 UNC Physician Assistant Studies program students received their white coats at the Carolina Club’s Alumni Hall. The UNC School of Medicine’s Physician Assistant Studies program launched January 4, 2016, with support and collaboration from Blue Cross Blue Shield of...

UNC Medical Center’s annual Veterans Day event honored veterans and celebrated the new UNC Physician Assistant (PA) Program. Nine of 20 incoming PA program students are veterans, and four of those students — veterans with more than five decades of combined experience serving their country — were in attendance. The...

As a nun, Mary Beth McGranaghan learned to go where her skills were most needed. As a faculty member in the UNC Physician Assistant Program, she hopes to teach this lesson to her students. Mary Beth McGranaghan, PhD, has been a teacher, in one form or another, for her entire...