Physician Assistant Education Association News
The Physician Assistant Education Association does an outstanding job with its monthly PAEA Networker.
The November issue includes a wrap of PAEA’s Annual Education Forum, which set a new attendance record.
Although the formal evaluations are not yet in, the 2008 PAEA Annual Education Forum appears to have been one of the Association’s most successful meetings in its history. Attendance numbers were at an all-time high, with 465 registrants representing 117 member programs. The restructured format put together by the Education Committee and meetings staff seemed to strike a good balance among different kinds of sessions each day and created additional time for unopposed poster presentations and other educational sessions. As President Dana Sayre-Stanhope put it in her report at the board meeting, “The biggest complaint we have had is that rooms are too full.”
Ted Ruback, MS, PA-C, who is the PA program director at the Oregon Health and Science University School of Medicine, is PAEA’s president-elect for 2009.
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At the conference, faculty awards went to:
New Faculty Award: Bettie H. Coplan, MPAS, PA-C, of Midwestern University College of Health Sciences PA program in Glendale, Ariz.
Rising Star Award: Anthony E. Brenneman, MPAS, PA-C, of the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine PA program in Iowa City, Iowa.
Master Faculty Award: Carl Fasser, PA, of the Baylor College of Medicine PA program in Houston.
Research Achievement Award: Meredith Davison, PhD, of the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine-Tulsa PA program.
Partnership Award: Allentown Rescue Mission of Allentown, Pa.
Excellence Through Diversity Award: The San Joaquin Valley College Primary Care PA program in Visalia, Calif.
Outstanding Service Award: Michael “Rocky” Rackover, PA-C, MS, the director of the Philadelphia University PA program in Philadelphia.
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