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Wichita State Professor Named National Humanitarian PA Of The Year

Wichita State University

A Wichita State University professor has been honored with the National Humanitarian Physician Assistant of the Year award. KMUW’s Abigail Wilson has more…

The American Academy of Physician Assistants awarded this year’s honor to Gina Brown, assistant professor of the physician assistant program at WSU.

Brown’s own students nominated her for the award, which recognizes a PA who has demonstrated an outstanding commitment to human rights and to providing accessible and quality health care on both domestic and international levels.

She was chosen for her dedication to improving care in underserved communities. In 2007, Brown became the sole female medical provider in a clinic in Afghanistan, where she would work for two years.

Brown helped to expand clinical and preventive health services for women based on the high number of patients at the clinic who were in need of prenatal care, as well as develop an on-site prenatal clinic, which is modeled after clinics in the U.S. and is still in operation today.