What's Happening with UK PAS?
PHOTO GALLERY: PA CELEBRATES BLACK BAG CEREMONY ON MOREHEAD CAMPUS
On Aug. 27, 2022, the UKPAs celebrated their Black Bag Ceremony on the Morehead Campus.
Gathering at the Center for Health Education & Research Building (CHER), in the Dr. Gerald DeMoss Conference Room, the class had a great time.
September 6, 2022
Video: Meet Your Professor — Dr. Leslie Woltenberg Pays it Forward by Caring for, Helping her Students
DR. LESLIE WOLTENBERG
September 1, 2022
‘This Program Will Lift You Up’ — PA Students celebrate Black Bag Ceremony in Morehead
By Ryan ClarkCHS Communications Director
Mya Faris grew up in a very rural place — McArthur, Ohio, about two hours east of Cincinnati — with a population of about 1,700.
There was one locally owned grocery, no hospitals and no urgent cares.
August 30, 2022
CHS Students Say First Day of Classes a Success
By Ryan ClarkCHS Communications Director
Jamie Suhr came all the way from the West Coast to spend his first day in Physical Therapy school in the College of Health Sciences Monday.
Suhr, a 29-year-old native of Boise, Idaho, attended his first class — physiology — and he came away impressed.
August 23, 2022
VIDEO: MEET YOUR PROFESSORS — SHELLEY IRVING HAS A PASSION FOR RURAL HEALTHCARE
Shelley Irving
August 19, 2022
Schuer appointed PA Program Director; Woltenberg nominated as Director of Graduate Studies
By Ryan ClarkCHS Communications Director
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Aug. 15, 2022) — Two faculty members in Physician Assistant Studies are assuming new leadership roles, the chair of the department announced today.
Kevin Schuer, DrPH, PA-C, has accepted the position of PA program director, while Leslie Woltenberg, PhD, will become the new Director of Graduate Studies, said Virginia Valentin, DrPH, PA-C, and chair of the Physician Assistant Studies department.
August 15, 2022
PA Simulation Experience Prepares Students for Real Life
By Ryan ClarkCHS Communications Director
Maggie Casteel Smith’s patient had trouble sleeping.
Upon further questioning, she discovered the patient was using marijuana, and apparently had a history of abuse as a child. What to do?
“In my plan, I referred her to psychiatry to obtain counseling for her past trauma,” Casteel Smith said. “As a provider, we must get to the true root of a patient’s problem, and in this case, it seems as though the root of my patient’s trouble sleeping was actually childhood trauma.”
August 4, 2022
Ways to Help Those Affected by the Eastern Kentucky Floods
By Ryan ClarkCHS Communications Director
August 1, 2022
PA-S stronger by the mile!
As part of the class’s goal to participate in charitable events and enjoy each other outside of class, the UK Physician Assistant Studies Class of '24 decided to take a break from the arduous academic year and put into practice “healthy brain – healthy body” by participating in the Ultramarathon event at “The Survive the Night Relays” on June 17-18.
July 12, 2022
‘Where Strangers Unexpectedly Become Family’ — When Onieta Stewart Lost Relatives to Tragedy, She Found Support in PA
By Ryan ClarkCHS Communications Director
Onieta Stewart has known loss — in fact, she felt it while she was a student in UK’s Physician Assistant Program.
The 43-year-old non-traditional student was one of many who coped with a changing world during the pandemic. But she felt it harder than most.
June 17, 2022
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