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

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


September 2015: Dinner celebrating launch of UNC PA Program



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

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