Third Cycle of AAPA/PAEA Grants Program Results in Two Funded Proposals

The Yale University School of Medicine PA Program in Connecticut received nearly $20,000 in funding for its teams' submissions to the most recent cycle of the jointly sponsored AAPA/PAEA Research Grants Program.

The recipients and their winning proposals were

• Mary Warner, MMSc, PA-C, and Christopher Maio, $10,806 for “Career Patterns in Physician Assistants: A Retrospective Longitudinal Study”

• Rosana Gonzalez-Colaso, PharmD, MPH, $8,000 for “Physician Assistant Utilization among Children with Special Health Care Needs: Type of Provider and Satisfaction with Care”

Since 2003-04, AAPA has underwritten this program to stimulate research on the PA profession, particularly in the areas of PA practice patterns and characteristics, more effective utilization of PAs in the workforce, and workforce policy. The program is administered by PAEA. Nine proposals were submitted to this year’s cycle.

Three individuals represented each of the sponsoring organizations, providing oversight and serving as reviewers. PAEA members were Meredith Davison, chair of the PAEA Research Institute subcommittee for this grant program, who is currently developing a PA program at the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine–Tulsa; Robert Hadley from the University of Kentucky; and Martha Petersen from Duquesne University. AAPA appointed James Cawley from the George Washington University PA Program as its cochair, as well as William Fenn, Western Michigan University, and Patricia Jennings, University of Alabama at Birmingham.

PAEA will honor the winning authors during its awards ceremony at the Annual Education Forum to be held this fall in Tucson. PAEA President Anita Glicken will also acknowledge the grant winners during the AAPA House of Delegates Meeting in Philadelphia at the Academy’s 35th Annual PA Conference.