AAPA News

Joanne Rolls, MEHP, MPAS, PA-C, is the 2021 recipient of the Publishing Award. Her article, “Curricular Approaches to Transgender Health in Physician Assistant Education,” is the first national survey of healthcare curricula in PA education.

AAPA has spent the past year listening, learning, and building strategies and initiatives to enhance diversity in the profession and to address health inequities among patients. Although our work is just a start, here is an update on AAPA’s DEI efforts.

In response to an open letter issued by the AAEM Resident Student Association which advocates for the end of all PA and NP “fellowships” and the replacement of non-physicians with physicians, AAPA President and Chair of the Board Beth R. Smolko, writes to AAEM President Lisa A. Moreno on behalf of the PA profession.