News & Events

NHSC Loan Repayment Program

The application for the National Health Service Corps (NHSC) Loan Repayment Program, which recruits physician assistants to work in selected health profession shortage areas, is available here.

Congratulations to Lauren Swisher, PA-SI who is a recipient of the 2008 Connecticut Academy of Physician Assistants Scholarship.

Congratulations to Julee Pulverenti, PA-SII who is a recipient of the 2008 American Academy of Physician Assistants Scholarship.

Wilbur Downs Fellowship

Megan Dieterich, PA-SI and Gabriel Rocha PA-SI have been awarded the Wilbur Downs Fellowship for Global Health Research.  Ms. Dieterich will be traveling to South Africa to study the effects of a nutritional intervention on the CD-4 counts in patients with HIV. Mr. Rocha will be studying the relationship between personality type and post traumatic stress disorder in university students at Haifa University in Israel.

Katherine Kunstel, PA-SI is a contributing chapter author to the newly published Nutrition in Pregnancy, edited by Lammi-Keefe et al.