Yale School of Medicine PA Online News

Students Participate in PAEA Student Health Policy Fellowship

Three Yale School of Medicine Physician Assistant Online (PA Online) Program students have been selected for the prestigious Physician Assistant Education Association (PAEA) Student Health Policy Fellowship over the past three years. Each year up to 20 PA students from across the United States are chosen to participate in this program.

Mark Perazella, MD, Receives American Society of Nephrology Lifetime Achievement Award

Mark Perazella, MD, Receives American Society of Nephrology Lifetime Achievement Award

Mark Perazella, MD, professor of medicine (Nephrology), has received one of the American Society of Nephrology (ASN) Lifetime Achievement Awards, specifically the Robert G. Narins Award. The Robert G. Narins Award, first awarded in 2006, honors individuals who have made substantial and meritorious contributions in education and teaching. The award is named for its inaugural recipient.

Med Ed Day at Yale Celebrates its 10th Anniversary

Med Ed Day at Yale Celebrates its 10th Anniversary

Yale’s medical education community celebrated the 10th anniversary of Medical Education Day at Yale (Med Ed Day) on June 9, 2022. Yale School of Medicine’s (YSM) Teaching and Learning Center (TLC), which implements and hosts Med Ed Day each year, launched the conference within one year after the TLC was established.

Two Yale PA Online Students Win NHSC Awards

Two Yale PA Online Students Win NHSC Awards

Two Yale School of Medicine Physician Assistant Online (Yale PA Online) Program students in the Class of 2022—Whitney Kinsey, MMSc, and Victoria Kottyan, MMSc—were selected to receive the National Health Service Corps (NHSC) Students to Service Loan Repayment award.

Meet Mary Ruggeri, the New Clinical Site Coordinator for Yale PA Online

Meet Mary Ruggeri, the New Clinical Site Coordinator for Yale PA Online

Mary Ruggeri, MMSc, MEd, PA-C, Clinical Site Coordinator for Yale PA Online Mary Ruggeri, MMSc, MEd, PA-C, was no stranger to the Yale School of Medicine Physician Assistant (PA) Online Program when she started working as the clinical site coordinator in 2021.  As a Yale PA Online alumna, Ruggeri had been a part of the program’s inaugural cohort of students. After graduating, she began practicing at an outpatient psychiatry clinic in Austin, Texas—and now, she has returned to the Yale PA Online Program to help students successfully navigate the clinical rotation process she once went through herself.  “I’m so happy […]