My name is Justin Mabry; I am from Mansfield, Ohio, but I have close ties to the eastern Kentucky area. I graduated from the University of Akron in 2011 with a Bachelor of Science in Respiratory Therapy. After graduation, I worked as a respiratory therapist for 10 years before deciding to return to school to become a PA. I graduated from PA school in August of 2023 from the University of Mount Union in Alliance, Ohio. During my time as an RT I spent a lot of time in various ICU settings and grew to enjoy the challenges that the ICU can bring. After researching what a PA residency program is and what it can offer to a new PA who is just starting, I decided that this was something I wanted for myself as a new clinician. I found the UK academic residency program with a critical care medicine tract. I applied and got accepted, and now I get to learn from some fantastic clinicians in a program designed to challenge me both professionally and personally.