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UNC Physician Assistant Studies Program History and Development

History of the UNC Physician Assistant Studies Program

Please enjoy the following photos from events honoring people who worked to develop the Physician Assistant Studies program.

December 2012:

Announcement of Collaboration between Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina and UNC School of Medicine to create PA Program

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Tom Ross, Former UNC System President; Colonel Peter Benson, Army Special Operations Command Surgeon; Brad Wilson, BCBSNC President; Dr. Holden Thorp, Former UNC Chancellor; Dr. Bruce Cairns, Stackhouse Distinguished Professor of Surgery and Director of the North Carolina Jaycee Burn Center at UNC Medical Center; Dr. William Roper, Dean, UNC School of Medicine, Vice Chancellor for Medical Affairs, and CEO, UNC Health Care System
 

UNC_PA2 Dr. Holden Thorp, Tom Ross, Command Surgeon Colonel Peter Benson, Dr. Bruce Cairns, Brad Wilson, Dr. William Roper

 

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Dr. Holden Thorp, Brad Wilson, Dr. Bruce Cairns

 

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Special Forces Medic Sergeant Eric Strand holds commemorative coin

    

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September 2015:  Dinner celebrating launch of UNC PA Program

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Dr. Stephen Hooper, Chair, Department of Allied Health Sciences and Associate Dean for Allied Health Sciences, UNC School of Medicine

 

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Dr. Paul Chelminski, Director, UNC Physician Assistant Program and Clinical Professor, School of Medicine; and Dr. James A. Bryan II, former UNC School of Medicine professor and physician

 

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Dr. Lee McLean, former Chair of the Department of Allied Health Sciences and former Associate Dean of Allied Health Sciences in the UNC School of Medicine; Dr. Amelia Drake, Executive Associate Dean for Academic Programs; Margaret Beal, PA-C, Primary Care Specialist and Assistant Professor in the PA Program, Department of Allied Health Sciences; Dr. Timothy Daaleman, Medical Director, UNC Physician Assistant Program and Professor and Vice Chair, Department of Family Medicine, UNC School of Medicine; Dr. Mary Beth McGranaghan,PA-C, Academic Coordinator and Associate Professor in the PA Program, Department of Allied Health Sciences; Dr. Stephen Hooper; Dr. Paul Chelminski; Todd Williams, PA-C

 

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Dr. Paul Chelminski; Dr. William Roper; Dr. Cam Enarson, MD; Colonel Robert Lutz, MD, United States Army Special Operations Command; Dr. Carol Folt; Brad Wilson; Dr. Stephen Hooper; Tom Ross

 

Additional photographs of September 2015 event

 

Military Training Engagement

A medical non-commissioned officer with the 3rd Special Forces Group (Airborne) based at Fort Bragg, N.C., instructs Malian military, firemen and other first responders on critical life-saving techniques and applications at a military base in Timbuktu, Mali as part of a May 29 military training engagement. U.S. Special Forces medical personnel receive extensive medical training and are well-rehearsed in teaching these skills to foreign militaries and indigenous populations. Host nation language proficient, culturally indoctrinated and experts on interagency processes, the 3rd SFG (A) “Warrior-Ambassadors” operate in small teams to conduct MTEs in the Trans-Saharan region as part of long-established security force assistance missions spearheaded by Special Operations Forces with partner nations in north and West Africa. The security force assistance missions are part of Operation Enduring Freedom (Trans-Sahara), the Department of Defense initiative to achieve regional cooperation and security. (Photo by Max R. Blumenfeld, JSOTF-TS PAO)file.asp

A medical non-commissioned officer with the 3rd Special Forces Group (Airborne) based at Fort Bragg, N.C., instructs Malian military, firemen and other first responders on critical life-saving techniques and applications at a military base in Timbuktu, Mali as part of a May 29 military training engagement. U.S. Special Forces medical personnel receive extensive medical training and are well-rehearsed in teaching these skills to foreign militaries and indigenous populations. Host nation language proficient, culturally indoctrinated and experts on interagency processes, the 3rd SFG (A) “Warrior-Ambassadors” operate in small teams to conduct MTEs in the Trans-Saharan region as part of long-established security force assistance missions spearheaded by Special Operations Forces with partner nations in north and West Africa. The security force assistance missions are part of Operation Enduring Freedom (Trans-Sahara), the Department of Defense initiative to achieve regional cooperation and security. (Photo by Max R. Blumenfeld, JSOTF-TS PAO