Moves and Milestones

Two PA Faculty Receive Promotions at Wichita State University

Richard D. Muma, PhD, MPH, PA-C, was recently named chair of the College of Health Professions’ Department of Public Health Sciences, effective July 1. In his new position, Muma will help to implement new quality assessment programs for the college as a whole. Although he will no longer be teaching in the PA program, he will retain his faculty appointment and continue to mentor PA student research projects. He will also complete his second term this year as a member of the Pi Alpha Honor Society Advisory Committee.

Sue Nyberg, MHS, PA-C, currently a faculty member in the PA program, will assume the position of program director and acting chair of the PA Department, effective June 15. She has many years of experience as a PA in clinical practice, in PA education, and in health care administration and has worked for the College of Health Professions as a clinical supervisor, instructor, and assistant and associate professor since 1996.

Contact Muma at (316) 978-5761; richard.muma@wichita.edu. Nyberg can be reached at (316) 978-5682; sue.nyberg@wichita.edu. Additional information is available on the Wichita State University press release.

University of Colorado Faculty Receive Awards
The University of Colorado Denver’s Child Health Associate PA Program has announced the following recent faculty awards.

• Christina Robohm, MS, PA-C, director of admissions, received the Chancellor’s Diversity Recognition Award from the University of Colorado, Denver. This award recognizes members of the Anschutz Medical Campus community for their efforts to promote and support diversity on the university’s campuses.
  
  
• Sandy Hoops, MS, PA-C, clinical coordinator, received three awards recognizing service and teaching contributions. These were the American Diabetes Association Outreach Award, the Society of Adolescent Medicine’s Nominee for the Regional Chapter President’s Award, and the Veritas Award for Service from the Center for Bioethics and Humanities at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center.
  
  
• Cindy Tanner, MS, PA-C, was recognized as the annual Kempe Professional Honoree by The Kempe Children’s Foundation. Tanner, a senior instructor of pediatrics, was a member of the School of Medicine’s first Child Health Associate/PA class in 1972. Cindy teaches PA students in the CHA/PA program.

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PAEA Networker's Moves and Milestones column is designed to help keep members informed about their colleagues’ activities. The column features information on faculty moves and promotions and on significant changes and achievements at member programs. Examples are faculty moving to new positions within the program or elsewhere, grants received, articles or books published, a new track or satellite campus established. We also welcome curricular innovations that may not have the research basis for peer-reviewed publication but that would be of anecdotal interest to PA faculty.

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