Duke PA Alumni Provide Health Care in Ukraine
Nick Hudak Selected as a PAEA/AAPA Research Fellow
Meet Janelle Bludorn, MS, PA-C
Six N.C. Clinicians Complete Primary Care Training and Enhancement Mini-Fellowship at Duke Physician Assistant Program
Meet Jacquetta Woods Melvin, MPH, PA-C
Jacquetta Woods Melvin, MPH, PA-C, joined the faculty of the Duke Physician Assistant Program on July 19, 2021. She earned her Master of Public Health in Maternal and Child Health from the UNC-Chapel Hill Gillings School of Global Public Health in 2011, and her Bachelor of Science in Physician Assistant Studies from Howard University in 2008.
Maggie Gradison, M.D., MHS-CL, Reflects on Her ‘Colorful Career’
After 27 years at Duke and a long career working in family medicine and occupational medicine, Maggie Gradison, M.D, MHS-CL, is ready to celebrate her retirement by driving to the Southwest with her husband.
“I wanted to travel when I retire and visit friends around the country and the world,” Gradison says. “But it will have to wait until it’s safe to travel.”
Eleven N.C. Clinicians Complete Primary Care Training and Enhancement Preceptor Development Mini-Fellowship led by Duke PA Program
Eleven North Carolina clinicians—also preceptors to Duke University medical, nursing and PA students—completed a Primary Care Training and Enhancement Program Faculty Development Mini-Fellowship, offered by the Duke Physician Assistant Program. The fellowship was held remotely over three days this fall.
Mini-fellowship participants were:
Physician Assistant Division Name Changes to Division of PA Studies; PA Initiatives, Programs Will Expand
Duke Physician Assistant Program Awarded $2M HRSA Grant
The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) awarded the Duke Physician Assistant Program a $2 million five-year grant for the project “Physician Assistant Leaders in Underserved Communities.”
Quincy Jones, Mara Sanchez, and Susan Hibbard Receive PAEA STAR Program Recognition
Quincy Jones, MSW, MHS, PA-C; Mara Sanchez, MMS, PA-C, RD; Susan Hibbard, PhD; and Joanne Rolls, MPAS, MEHP, PA-C, assistant professor at the University of Utah, have been recognized by PAEA's Support to Advance Research (STAR) Program for their proposal, LGBTQ Curricula in Physician Assistant Programs.