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Three of our local PA grads have been awarded 2007 Best Bedside Manner Awards for PA's by Our Health magazine: Susan Albanowski, '02, Elsie Ward, '99, and Denise Dillingham, '01
New article about this Practice in the July 2007 issue of Our Health magazine. From the July 2005 issue of the Roanoker Magazine: Two JCHS PA program graduates are working with Comprehensive Pain Management Centers locally. Here's the article.
Shahrzad Christopher, '06, at Utah Cancer Specialists	Denise Dillingham, '01, Clinical Coordinator for our own PA Program
Stacy Garrison, '05, has joined the OrthoMed Center in Modesto, California. Here's her page on their website.	Amy Branson, '05 Health Centers of the Piedmont in the Danville, VA, area
Jez Cook in Guatemala Jez Cook, '05, did a rotation in Guatemala for Global Outreach Mission in May 2005, working with Pedro Pallacio, MD. In the picture on the right he is in his "office" with the translator.
William O'Neal, '04, PA at the Vernon J. Harris Community Health Center Health Center, received a NHSC scholarship and returned home to Virginia to practice. Article (in pdf)	Sarah Weber, '03 Urgent Medical & Family Care Greensboro, North Carolina
From the November 15, 2003, issue of the AAPA News: Communication, Cultural Sensitivity Important for PAs in Indian Health Physician assistants who take care of American Indian patients say that the job tends to be more of a calling than most. For non-indian providers, at least, taking a job on a reservation or elsewhere serving an Indian population can mean a radical shift in culture and environment. This can be disorienting to some, enriching to others. "You either really like it or you really don't," said Nicolette McDermott-Ketchum, a PA at the Northern Navajo Medical Center on the Navajo reservation near Shiprock, New Mexico. "People come out and stay for years, or they leave in six months." But once they decide to stay, PAs seem to remain for a while. Most of the PAs interviewed for this article were in the only job they had ever had or had been in their current position for many years. JCHS PA graduate Quana Winstead, '01, on left