News

• Pandemic Warriors: How WSU Applebaum is helping during COVID-19
  February 19, 2021
  From the earliest days of the pandemic through the vaccination rollout and beyond, WSU Applebaum faculty, students and alumni have rallied. Because much of our work takes place behind the scenes, here's a look at just a few of the ways every program in the college is involved with our community’s coronavirus response.
• Students, faculty assist Detroit's vaccination effort
  February 19, 2021
  “These dedicated students show us what is possible when we come together as a community to help those in need,” said WSU Applebaum Associate Professor and Director of Research Paul Kilgore, who is among the faculty helping with logistics. “These efforts will be key to helping bring an end to the COVID-19 pandemic and assist communities in returning to their best health.”
• Upcoming workshop will broaden interprofessional experience for WSU Applebaum students
  January 7, 2021
  On Jan. 26 and 28, 2021, nearly 300 students from across WSU Applebaum will participate in a virtual workshop that has been carefully designed to cover various IPE core competencies including roles and responsibilities, values and ethics, communication and cultural competence.
• IPTV program seeks adults age 50+ for virtual health management visits
  December 17, 2020
  The IPTV program is seeking adults age 50 and older to participate. Adults will need a smartphone or computer and should be able to use Zoom or a similar video conferencing program. Please share this opportunity and the documents linked below with anyone 50+ you feel may be interested! 
• PAS alum Kimberly Hurst expands Detroit nonprofit to widen care for sexual assault survivors
  December 8, 2020
  “Our mission hasn’t changed,” said Hurst. “We want to be seen as a beacon of hope for those who have experienced the trauma and hurt of sexual violence.”
• Sara Lolar earns national New Faculty Award for Professional Excellence
  October 22, 2020
  “Never in my years as faculty have I witnessed such growth in a PA educator,” said fellow Assistant Clinical Professor Jamie McQueen. “Our program has seen monumental improvement in the short time Sara has been on our team.”
• Golf Digest: 2019 physician assistant grad Christine Bonamici on the healing power of golf
  October 19, 2020
  After long shifts in the ER during some of the worst weeks of the pandemic, the golf course became “the perfect place” for Bonamici to find balance.
• WSU Applebaum Research Day 2020 award winners announced
  October 14, 2020
  On Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2020, the Eugene Applebaum College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences hosted its 17th annual Research Day live on Zoom. The event included a keynote lecture by James Thomas, PT, PhD, of Virginia Commonwealth University’s Motor Control Lab.
• Jamie McQueen featured in PAEA article on welcoming students to virtual learning environment
  August 7, 2020
  The Physician Assistant Education Association presented a series of articles about admissions in the time of COVID-19. Assistant Clinical Professor and Director of Academics and Assessment Jamie McQueen is featured in "Virtual Matriculation: Welcoming New Students to 'Campus'."
• Future physician assistant Joe Tocco tests his mettle on COVID-19 front lines
  July 7, 2020
  “I felt like I was in the exact right position to help,” Joe Tocco said. “Not everyone in the health care field can expose themselves to hundreds of potentially contagious patients and be relatively sure they’ll be OK. I’m young and healthy, and my parents and brother aren’t high-risk. I wasn’t going to just sit back and watch it all happen when I could help.”
• Interprofessional Home Visit (IPTV) program teaches team care for older adults
  June 15, 2020
  IPTV introduces Wayne State’s social work, medical, nursing, occupational therapy, pharmacy, physical therapy and physician assistant students, as well as University of Detroit Mercy’s dental students, to team care for older adults. Students learn how to assess an older adult’s health and social needs and to participate in an interdisciplinary team environment.
• 2001 Physician Assistant Studies graduate honored by Crain's Detroit Business
  June 8, 2020
  Alumna Kimberly Hurst was named as a 2020 Health Care Hero. She founded Wayne County SAFE in 2006 to provide crisis intervention, advocacy and counseling services on a 24/7 basis at no charge to sexual assault survivors. The nonprofit has served more than 16,000 people over the past 14 years.
• CBS News: Alumnus Ryan Desgrange '08 discusses the PA's role during COVID-19
  May 22, 2020
  In March, Desgrange worked to transition an inpatient orthopedic unit at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit into a COVID-19 unit. As a director in the hospital system, he redeployed his team of 19 PAs and three nurse practitioners to various sites, including triage tents to test people for the virus.
• Ask a Mentor series helps prospective students explore health sciences career options
  May 21, 2020
  On May 28-29 and June 11-12, a series of four one-hour virtual Q&A sessions will connect prospective students with those currently studying health sciences. Each panel will answer questions about their program — including physician assistant studies, physical therapy, radiologic technology and nurse anesthesia — and offer admission tips.
• Teaching hands-on professions under hands-off circumstances
  April 10, 2020
  Many faculty members in WSU Applebaum's health sciences programs rapidly transformed the second half of their winter semester courses in a way that would impart crucial lessons while keeping far-flung students engaged.
• Detroit Health Department seeks volunteers to help with COVID-19 response
  March 27, 2020
  The Detroit Health Department is seeking detail-oriented people who are comfortable on the phone to assist in its response to COVID-19. Individuals must be highly organized, able to adjust to changing circumstances, and comfortable discussing sensitive health issues and recording data accurately.
• RESCHEDULED: Fulbright faculty information session at EACPHS rescheduled for May 13
  March 13, 2020
  The Fulbright information session at EACPHS originally scheduled for Wednesday, March 18, has been postponed until May 13.
• Interprofessional education sessions at WSU Applebaum bridge health disciplines for students
  February 28, 2020
  The first in a planned series of IPE events took place Jan. 14 and 16, 2020, with 240 students from five programs actively participating in large and small group sessions focused on interprofessional roles in pain management.
• Physician Assistant professor Sara Lolar wins national research grant
  January 20, 2020
  Wayne State University Assistant Clinical Professor of Physician Assistant Studies and alumna Sara Lolar '95, '05 was awarded the 2019 Don Pedersen Research Grant from the Physician Assistant Education Association (PAEA), providing $6,996 to fund her project “Barriers to research: A national survey of physician assistant faculty.”
• Order WSU Physician Assistant apparel and gear by Nov. 29
  November 22, 2019
  Represent the Wayne State Physician Assistant program in style with custom shirts, zip-ups, and more.
• Physician Assistant students volunteer at 9th annual Men’s Health Event at Ford Field
  September 27, 2019
  Forty-eight Wayne State University physician assistant studies (PAS) students, along with a few faculty members, volunteered at the 9th Annual Men’s Health Event at Ford Field on Friday, Sept. 21. The event is hosted by the Men’s Institute of Urology and provides men in Detroit and surrounding areas a better understanding of how to stay healthy, free health screenings to assess their current health and information about advances in healthcare.
• PA instructor, USMC vet Doug Howell directs annual Veterans Day 4Star 4Mile Race
  September 26, 2019
  On Sunday, Nov. 10, the day before Veterans Day, the fourth annual 4 Star 4 Mile Race will take place in Downtown Detroit. The race is directed by Doug Howell, a lecturer in the WSU Applebaum Physician Assistant Studies program and a Vietnam veteran. 
• Pre-Health Sciences Mentoring Program launched at WSU Applebaum
  August 2, 2019
  A new Pre-Health Sciences Mentoring Program is available for Wayne State undergraduates who are considering applying to one of WSU Applebaum's bachelor's, master's or doctoral degree programs in the health sciences.
• Sara Lolar inducted as distinguished fellow of the American Academy of Physician Assistants
  July 25, 2019
  Assistant Professor (Clinical) Sara Lolar was recently inducted as a distinguished fellow of the American Academy of Physician Assistants (AAPA). Less than 2% of the entire AAPA membership has earned the distinction.
• Students learn veteran health care needs straight from the source
  July 16, 2019
  Students and faculty from Wayne State University’s School of Medicine and Eugene Applebaum College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences hosted 33 Michigan veterans of the U.S. Air Force, Army and Marines during the course of three sessions June 6, 13 and 20 to better understand their health needs.