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...
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...
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.
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...
As the coronavirus pandemic underscores socioeconomic inequities in education, the University of Utah PA program steps up. Article by Darin Ryujin, MPAS, PA-C.
In January of this year, students in the Physician Assistant Program joined their colleagues in the Utah Acadamy for their annual visit to the Utah State Capitol Building. While there...
Physician Assistants at the University of Utah recently celebrated their 2020 White Coat Ceremony, in which students beginning clinical work receive the white coat they will use during their rotations...
Every year, PAEA grantees contribute to PA scholarly canon. It has been a stellar year for PAEA’s research grant initiatives. Across five research grant programs, PAEA has been able to...
This year, sixteen volunteers took time out of their busy Forum schedules to visit McKinley Technology High School, a STEM-based school in northeast Washington, DC. Project Access is an outreach...
The Department of Family & Preventive Medicine is pleased to welcome Trenton Honda, PhD, PA-C as the Chief for the Division of Physician Assistant Studies and as an Associate Professor...
Congratulations to our Physician Assistant Studies faculty and students at the Dixie State Campus in St. George, UT. On Saturday, September 7, 2019 the group was recognized as the Outstanding...
One of our former post-docs recently testified in front of a congressional subcommittee regarding uranium exposures on tribal lands. Check out this testimony and several other articles he was quoted...
This year the Physician Assistant Studies program will be hosting two Physician Assistant Student Community Engaged Evidence Based Practice Poster Sessions for both the St. George and SLC PA Classes...
Those were the words of the University of Utah PA program’s (UPAP’s) medical director and Pokhara site coordinator Richard Backman, MD, as he prepared our group, comprised primarily of University...
Following a $10 million increase in funding for the Primary Care Training and Enhancement (PCTE) program and the announcement of a PA program-specific competition late last year, the Health Resources...
