Moves and Milestones

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

If you have news you would like to share, please send it to Eileen Evans, PAEA Networker managing editor, at eevans@PAEAonline.org; (703) 548-5538, ext. 307. News must be received by the 20th of the month for inclusion in the following month’s issue.

FACULTY MOVES AND PROMOTIONS

Meredith Davison, PhD, resigned her position as program director of the PA program at Midwestern University, Downers Grove, Illinois, effective May 31, 2006. She has accepted a faculty position in the Department of Family Medicine at the Tulsa campus of the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine. Davison will be working with the college to develop a PA program in northeastern Oklahoma. Colleagues may reach her via e-mail at meredith-davison@ouhsc.edu or by phone at (918) 619-4760.

Jim Van Rhee, MS, PA-C, formerly program director at Western Michigan University, has accepted a position as program director at Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He can be reached at (336) 716-4356; jvanrhee@wfubmc.edu.

AWARDS TO FACULTY AND STUDENTS

For the second year in a row, a poster from University of Colorado Child Health Associate PA Program has won the Educational Innovation Award from the Association of American Medical College’s Western Group on Educational Affairs. Anita Glicken, MSW, Gerald Merenstein, MD, and Joyce Nieman, MHS, PA-C, won for their poster, “Student Clinical Tracking of Psychiatric and Behavioral Diagnoses in Primary Care.”

Several programs were also honored recently by the Student Academy of the American Academy of Physician Assistants:

The SAAAPA President’s Award for 2006, which honors a PA who has demonstrated exemplary service to PA students and has furthered the leadership, educational, or professional development of PA students, was awarded to Lori E. Swanchak, MPAS, PA-C, from Marywood University in Pennsylvania.

The SAAAPA Outstanding Student Society Award, which recognizes two student societies for outstanding service to the profession, went to the Quinnipiac University Student Society, whose faculty advisor is Cynthia Lord, MHS, PA-C; and to the Baylor College of Medicine, whose faculty advisor is Dana Nadalo, PA-C. Honorable mention went to the University of Colorado and University of Nebraska student societies. Christina Robohm, MS, PA-C, and Darwin Brown, MPH, PA-C, respectively, are the societies' faculty advisors.

The SAAAPA Healthy People 2010 Award recognizes a student or student society for its service to the profession in implementing a "project in a box" that promotes one of the U.S. Surgeon General's Healthy People 2010 leading health indicators. The indicators for the 2005-2006 year are immunization and mental health. The winner receives $1,005 for their student society and $1,005 for the charity of their choice. The 2006 winner was the Future Physician Assistants Student Society at Central Michigan University, and their charity is the Isabella Community Soup Kitchen in Mount Pleasant, Michigan.