A University of Utah contact training partnership with the Utah Department of Health (UDOH) has recently been awarded a $3.1 million contract to expand its operations, providing an essential boost...
Jared Spackman, MPAS, PA-C, Program Director for the UPAP program, shares his thoughts about maintaining academic and clinical activities during the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic.
In 2016, the Utah Legislature granted funding for the expansion of the University of Utah Physician Assistant Program distant campus located in St. George, Utah. Since then, the distant-campus program...
Virginia Valentin, DrPH, PA-C was appointed Division Chief of the Utah Physician Assistant Program (UPAP) in August 2020. In this interview, Dr. Valentin discusses her transition as Chief, the current...
Intermountain Healthcare was just named the 2020-2021 American Academy of PAs (AAPA) Employer of Excellence. The award was not possible without the dedicated service of the organization’s PA’s, many of...
The work of Civil and Environmental Engineering assistant professor Jennifer Weidhass, PhD and Division of Public Health associate professor Jim VanDerslice, PhD in gathering information about the spread of the...
Denise Diaz-Robles, one of the U's Physician Assistant students, writes a letter to the editor of the Salt Lake Tribune praising the work of Physician Assistants in the state and...
The American Public Health Association (APHA)—the largest public health organization in the world—recently elected Charles R. Rogers, PhD, MPH, MS, MCHES® as 1 of 8 Governing Council members for the...
Kirsten Stoesser, MD, FAAFP has helped raise the profile of our Family Medicine program nationally by serving in positions of leadership in important Family Medicine organizations.