April 2009 - Posts

IMPORTANT CORRECTION to Steve Cornell Info
April 30, 2009 10:51 AM by Michael Gerchufsky

Unfortunately, the address for the Christopher and Tommy Cornell Education Fund in Steve Cornell’s published obituary last week was incorrect. Here is the corrected address: Christopher and Tommy Cornell Education Fund c/o Heena Ruparelia Citizens Bank Read More...

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In Memoriam: Jim Meeks, PA-C, DFAPPA
April 28, 2009 2:55 PM by Michael Gerchufsky

From Charles B. Dillehay, MBA, CAE, executive director of the Association of Family Practice PAs: It is my very sad and humble duty to report that our dear friend and colleague, Jim Meeks, died on Tuesday, April 28, 2009, at 6:15 AM. He suffered a long Read More...

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Steve Cornell’s Legacy
April 24, 2009 2:11 PM by Michael Gerchufsky

If you didn't already know, there was more, much more, to our colleague Steve Cornell than his "day job" here at ADVANCE for Physician Assistants . As well as being a husband, father and soccer coach, Steve covered the Trenton Thunder as a beat reporter Read More...

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Stephen Cornell Services, Educational Fund
April 23, 2009 11:50 AM by Michael Gerchufsky

A visitation for our friend and colleague Steve Cornell will be held this Saturday morning in his hometown of Hatboro, Pa., at the Baskwill Funeral Home. Here is a link to Steve’s obituary: http://www.phillyburbs.com/news/local/obits_detail/article/138/2009/april/23/stephen-l-cornell-1.html Read More...

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Stephen Cornell, 1967-2009
April 22, 2009 12:58 PM by Michael Gerchufsky

Stephen Cornell, who had been on the ADVANCE for Physician Assistants editorial staff for nearly 13 years -- and who had been our colleague and close friend -- died yesterday. Steve battled bipolar disease for as long as we knew him, and ultimately that Read More...

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Physician Assistant Helps Form Foundation
April 20, 2009 11:21 AM by Stephen Cornell

Physician assistant Joyce Nichols is involved in the Lincoln Community Health Center in Durham, N.C., and is quoted today in an article in the Durham Sun-Herald . The unique part of the article is that Nichols was the first woman to graduate from the Read More...

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Physician Assistant Eyes Marathon Record
April 16, 2009 9:34 AM by Stephen Cornell

Ohio physician assistant Ryan Desgrange will run Toledo's Glass City Marathon dressed as the movie character Rocky Balboa to try to set the Guinness world record for fastest marathon run in a film character costume. Desgrange won the marathon in 2006--not Read More...

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PA Requests Pay Cut to Help Others
April 14, 2009 11:15 AM by Terri Schaefer

The Register-Guard published a profile of Oregon PA Sylvia Gregory on Sunday. She has founded an organization in her hometown of Eugene to help the homeless, traveled to El Salvador more than a dozen times to help the poor, and rents a house for far below Read More...

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Physician Assistants and NPs in Primary Care
April 13, 2009 11:27 AM by Stephen Cornell

The Naples (Fla.) Daily News has a long article on physician assistants and nurse practitioners in primary care. It's part of a series on the shortage of primary care physicians. Government surveys count more than 140,000 advanced practice nurses and Read More...

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Physician Assistant Name and Google
April 10, 2009 12:58 PM by Stephen Cornell

Google returns more results for physician's assistant (4.81 million) than for physician assistant (4.39 million). Read More...

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Michigan Physician Assistant Helps Burned Iraqi Boy
April 10, 2009 12:48 PM by Stephen Cornell

Michigan Army National Guard physician assistant David Howell helped bring a 12-year-old Iraqi boy to the United States for medical treatment. Howell and the boy arrived in Michigan this week. Mohammed, a thin and quiet youngster from the Iraqi city of Read More...

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Physician Assistant Blogs from Remote Alaskan Island
April 10, 2009 12:21 PM by Stephen Cornell

Physician assistant Darryl Peterson is blogging from the Alaskan island of Akutan on his blog, " Notes from Akutan ." From yesterday's post: It's been pretty slow in the clinic. Ive averaged 1 pt a day for the week so far. I re-sterilized all the instruments Read More...

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Idaho Physician Assistants Honor Mike Doyle
April 10, 2009 9:32 AM by Stephen Cornell

The Idaho Academy of Physician Assistants recently honored Mike Doyle with its Physician Assistant Excellence Award. Doyle, who works in the ISU Student Health Center and is an adjunct faculty in the ISU Department of Physician Assistant Studies, was Read More...

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Negative Physician Assistant Press
April 9, 2009 11:51 AM by Stephen Cornell

In an editorial today, the New York Times suggests that PAs may have participated in torture, calls PAs "less-trained personnel" and refers to them as physician's assistants. Such activities violate the ethical codes of major health organizations, both Read More...

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Society of Dermatology Physician Assistants Announces Election Results
April 8, 2009 12:07 PM by Stephen Cornell

The Society of Dermatology Physician Assistants announced the results of its 2009 elections on Facebook. The winners are: Abby Jacobson (president-elect) CaSondra Soto (vice president) Mark Hyde (director at large) John Notabartolo (director at large) Read More...

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Positive Physician Assistant Press
April 6, 2009 12:24 PM by Stephen Cornell

An article about health reform in Modern Healthcare mentions physician assistants and nurse practitioners. Let’s also acknowledge that attracting more MDs isn’t the only answer here. Nurse practitioners and physician assistants already play a vital role, Read More...

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Physician Assistant in New Stephen King Novel
April 3, 2009 10:39 AM by Stephen Cornell

Maine physician assistant Julia Shumway is one of the main characters in Stephen King's upcoming novel, Under the Dome . Characters in the cast of more than 100 include Dale Barbara, a Gulf veteran and now a cook, the town's newspaper owner Julia Shumway, Read More...

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Reimbursement Shift?
April 2, 2009 5:09 PM by Stephen Cornell

PA blogger physasst suggets a radical shift in medical reimbursement on his blog. Essentially, If I were health care "czar", my first action would be an across the board cut of 30% in payments (CMS) to surgical specialists and interventional radiology, Read More...

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Coffee Improves Athletic Performance
April 1, 2009 2:57 PM by Stephen Cornell

Caffeine is a powerful athletic performance enhancer, according to an interesting article in the New York Times . Exercise physiologists have studied caffeine’s effects in nearly every iteration: Does it help sprinters? Marathon runners? Cyclists? Rowers? Read More...

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AAPA Names New COO
April 1, 2009 2:27 PM by Stephen Cornell

Sabrina Lea Smith, DrHA, CRA, is the new chief operating officer of the American Academy of Physician Assistants. From the AAPA's press release: (Alexandria, VA) – The American Academy of Physician Assistants (AAPA), the only national professional society Read More...

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New Physician Assistant Program in New Hampshire?
April 1, 2009 2:07 PM by Stephen Cornell

According to the Physician Academy of Vermont Web site, New Hampshire's Franklin Pierce University is looking to start a PA program this year. Franklin Pierce University is working to establish a Masters level Physician Assistant program just over the Read More...

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