Recent UPAP graduate Chanda Duncan was part of a spotlight on the Today Show featuring Physician Assistants across the country celebrating Physician Assistant Week. Duncan appeared masked alongside several other...
Rana Habboush, who joined the PA program in 2018, was featured in the Winter 2020 edition of UtahMed, the alumni magazine for the University of Utah School of Medicine. Rana's...
Vannina Gwilliam, recent UPAP graduate, joined several others from Intermountain Healthcare highlighting the great work done by translators and interpreters in the health professions.
NPR interviews Public Health researcher Charles R. Rogers, PhD, MPH, MS, MCHES® to help explain the impact of CRC and the importance of early detection screening for this preventable, beatable...
TP Singh, BDS, MDS, MPH and Fares Qeadan, PhD announced last week the IRB approval of a research project collaboration between themselves and the University of Utah School of Dentistry...
On Wednesday, September 2, UPAP celebrated its 49th graduating class of Physician Assistants in a special online ceremony. Graduating student awards were also announced at this meeting.
Karen Schliep, PhD, MSPH was recently awarded a K01 award titled “Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy and Subsequent Risk of Vascular Dementia, Alzheimer's Disease, or Related Dementia: A Retrospective Cohort Study...
The International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health recently published “What Protective Health Measures Are Americans Taking in Response to COVID-19? Results from the COVID Impact Survey,” a collaborative...
Charles R. Rogers, PhD, MPH, MS, MCHES® was recently featured on “Voices with Jawan Strader,” a NBC 6 program, last week. In the program, Dr. Rogers sat on a panel...
Two of our international students – Kebba Kah (PhD student) and Ghazaleh Safazadeh (MPH student) received community engagement scholarships from the U's International Student Scholar Services (ISSS) office in August...
Steven Godin, PHD, MPH received a SAMHSA award for an important community engagement project this last Thursday. The project, titled “Applying the Accountable Health Communities Model in a Regional Opioid...
Last Thursday, Michael Magill, MD, Professor and Chairman Emeritus of the University of Utah Department of Family and Preventive Medicine (DFPM), was awarded the prestigious F. Marian Bishop Leadership Award...
Charles R. Rogers, PhD, MPH, MS, MCHES® was recently awarded a certification upgrade from the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing, Inc.
Public Health Professor Christy Porucznik, PhD, MSPH has been named Chair of the Workgroup formed by the CDC to consider revision to the CDC Opioid Prescribing Guidelines.
Data is paramount to managing the COVID-19 crisis, and Public Health assistant professor Fares Qeadan, PhD, has been awarded access to an extensive data set related to the outbreak. As...
In recognition of the U's Physician Assistant program's excellence in reaching out to students of all backgrounds during the pandemic, the Physician Assistant Education Association (PAEA) Diversity and Inclusion Advancement...
The Division of Public Health at the University of Utah announced that they are partnering with the Utah Department of Health to train and field 100 or more workers as...
As the coronavirus pandemic underscores socioeconomic inequities in education, the University of Utah PA program steps up. Article by Darin Ryujin, MPAS, PA-C.
Members of the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine Community Engagement and Diversity and Inclusion Committees, as well as Utah Area Health Education Center (Utah AHEC), have spearheaded an initiative...
