{"id":5552,"date":"2021-02-15T10:46:50","date_gmt":"2021-02-15T15:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/unc-pa\/?p=5552"},"modified":"2021-02-15T10:48:36","modified_gmt":"2021-02-15T15:48:36","slug":"second-year-physician-assistant-studies-student-andre-braima-receives-grant-from-north-carolina-academy-of-physician-assistants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/unc-pa\/2021\/02\/second-year-physician-assistant-studies-student-andre-braima-receives-grant-from-north-carolina-academy-of-physician-assistants\/","title":{"rendered":"Second-Year Physician Assistant Studies Student Andre Braima Receives Grant from North Carolina Academy of Physician Assistants"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Second-year Physician Assistant Studies student Andre Braima has received a grant from the <a href=\"https:\/\/ncapa.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">North Carolina Academy of Physician Assistants<\/a> (NCAPA). Braima will use the funds to attend the American Association of Physician Assistants\u2019 Leadership and Advocacy Summit, to be held at the end of March.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5556\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 301px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5556\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/unc-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/482\/2021\/02\/Andre-291x300.png\" alt=\"Second-year Physician Assistant Studies student Andre Braima\" width=\"291\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/unc-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/482\/2021\/02\/Andre-291x300.png 291w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/unc-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/482\/2021\/02\/Andre-768x792.png 768w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/unc-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/482\/2021\/02\/Andre-600x619.png 600w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/unc-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/482\/2021\/02\/Andre.png 888w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 291px) 100vw, 291px\" \/><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Second-year Physician Assistant Studies student Andre Braima<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Braima, from western Kentucky, is a nontraditional student who worked as a high school\u00a0science teacher for seven years before pursuing PA school. He said the grant will allow him to continue leadership and\u00a0advocacy efforts within the PA profession, in addition to expanding the reach and footprint of diversity of PAs.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Second-year Physician Assistant Studies student Andre Braima has received a grant from the North Carolina Academy of Physician Assistants (NCAPA). Braima will use the funds to attend the American Association of Physician Assistants\u2019 Leadership and Advocacy Summit, to be held at the end of March. Braima, from western Kentucky, is a nontraditional student who worked &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/unc-pa\/2021\/02\/second-year-physician-assistant-studies-student-andre-braima-receives-grant-from-north-carolina-academy-of-physician-assistants\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Second-Year Physician Assistant Studies Student Andre Braima Receives Grant from North Carolina Academy of Physician Assistants\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55977,"featured_media":5556,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"layout":"","cellInformation":"","apiCallInformation":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","odd"],"acf":[],"featured_image":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/unc-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/482\/2021\/02\/Andre.png","featured_image_medium":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/unc-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/482\/2021\/02\/Andre-291x300.png","featured_image_medium_large":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/unc-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/482\/2021\/02\/Andre-768x792.png","featured_image_large":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/unc-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/482\/2021\/02\/Andre.png","featured_image_thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/unc-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/482\/2021\/02\/Andre-150x150.png","featured_image_alt":"Second-year Physician Assistant Studies student Andre Braima","category_details":[{"name":"News","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/unc-pa\/category\/news\/"}],"tag_details":[],"_links_to":[],"_links_to_target":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/unc-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/unc-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/unc-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/unc-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55977"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/unc-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/unc-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/unc-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/unc-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/unc-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/unc-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}