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During PA Week 2024, audiences across the country were reached more than 114 million times through the media. Keep up to date on the latest PA news!

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PA Couple Run Rural Iowa Clinic

October 8, 2025

AAPA Honors 2025 Leadership in Advocacy Scholarship Winners

October 8, 2025

Celebrating PAs, trusted partners in Utahns’ healthcare

October 6, 2025

Kayla Frank, PA-C, Helps Modernize South Dakota PA Practice Laws

October 3, 2025

Cover Story: Cancer support group helps improve quality of life

October 23, 2024

MUSC PA discusses the role of Physician Associates during national week

October 15, 2024

Prescribing Is Not Always Enough: PAs Grow Fresh Fruits and Vegetables to Combat Food Insecurity

October 11, 2024

UToledo expands CommunityCare Clinic

October 11, 2024

Hollister physician associate fights child obesity with family program

October 10, 2024

PA Becomes Medical Director of FQHC

October 10, 2024

Physician Assistant Week highlights dedication of service to Veterans

October 9, 2024

PA Relies on Genetics to Treat Lysosomal Storage Diseases

October 9, 2024

Physician Assistants Vital In OR And Beyond

October 8, 2024

Siouxland Community Health Center growing produce for those in need

October 8, 2024

Texas Medical Board celebrates PA Week

October 7, 2024

PA Moms Provides Support, Friendship, Scholarships for Working Women

October 7, 2024

Some people go to the ER again and again. Maryland hospitals have ways to h…

October 17, 2023

PA Helps Start Substance Use Program in Alaska

October 17, 2023

PA and Team Identify Multi-Visit Patients in the Emergency Department

October 13, 2023

Celebrating National PA Week

October 12, 2023

Local physician assistants go bowling for a good cause

October 10, 2023

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CM&F Group Partners with the Physician Associate Foundation

October 10, 2025

Leadership

Why I’m Inspired by the Spirit of the PA Profession

October 9, 2025

Press Releases

Leaders Across the Nation Celebrate PA Week and PA Profession’s Impact

October 6, 2025

AAPA News

This PA Week: Celebrate 117 Years of Progress

September 29, 2025

PAs Go Beyond

PA Jared Wallace Aims to Change the Trajectory of Diabetes in the Rural Community of Kenai, Alaska

September 25, 2025

AAPA News

This PA Week, Support PAs Making an IMPACT

September 24, 2025

PAs Go Beyond

Early-Career PA William Lara Aims to Provide Care to the Underserved Community in Rural Nevada

September 19, 2025

AAPA News

Celebrate PA Week by Submitting a Proclamation!

September 10, 2025

AAPA News

AAPA Introduces New Interactive Map to Showcase the Physician Associate Impact Throughout the Country

September 8, 2025

AAPA News

How to Celebrate this PA Week

September 2, 2025

PAs Go Beyond

PA Sutton Became the First Altruistic Living Kidney Donor in South Carolina, and Now Leads the South Carolina Transplant Foundation

August 1, 2025

PAs Go Beyond

Providing Care to Communities in Need in Guatemala

July 14, 2025

AAPA News

This Day in History: October 6

October 6, 2024

PAs Go Beyond

Grantee Spotlight: PA Students Make an IMPACT in their Community

September 20, 2024

AAPA News

Get to Know AAPA’s 2024–2025 Social Media Ambassadors

September 16, 2024

Students

Meet the Inaugural Recipients of the Michael Powe Leadership in Advocacy Scholarship

September 4, 2024

“As physician associates, we go above and beyond for our patients every day—and during PA Week, we celebrate our profession’s contributions to the healthcare system. I’m incredibly proud to be a PA and I know you are, too! Join us this PA Week and help spread the word about the high quality and value of PA-provided care.”

— Todd Pickard, DMSc, PA-C, DFAAPA, FASCO
President, AAPA

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