| Winnie Barron, MHS, PA-C Physician Assistant, Junction City, Oregon
Director, Makindu Children's Center
Kenya, Africa
Class of 1988
Induction: 2002 Prior to becoming a physician assistant, Ms. Barron graduated from
the University of Edinburgh in Scotland in 1978 with a Special Education
Graduate Diploma and she received a Bachelor of Arts degree from
Colorado College in 1979. She completed her paramedic training in
1982 at Clover Park Vocational Technical Institute in Tacoma, Washington
and worked as a paramedic, EMT and firefighter until entering the
Duke PA Program. Currently, Ms. Barron divides her time between
her career as a physician assistant (PA) in Oregon and volunteer
experiences in Africa. She practices medicine at the Junction City
Medical Center, Oregon and while in Africa is the director of the
Makindu Children's Center in Kenya, which she co-founded. Since graduating from Duke, Ms. Barron has worked in rural family
medicine practices in the state of Oregon and, since 1993, has volunteered
her services as a physician assistant at the Community Outread Health
Clinic in Lebanon, Oregon. In addition to her work as a PA, she
continues as a volunteer paramedic/firefighter, EMT captain and
Search and Rescue Squad member in Brownsville, Oregon and as an
EMT instructor at Linn-Benton County Community College in Albany,
Oregon. In 1994, as part of a medical relief mission to Rwanda, Ms. Barron
helped to deliver medical care to the survivors in this war-torn
country. She was able to return to Africa in 1997 where she was
assigned to a hospital in a small village in eastern Kenya. Responding
to the alarming number of AIDS orphans there, she envisioned a facility
where these children could receive food, education and medical care.
Through her tireless dedication and hard work as well as the generosity
of volunteers and financial supporters, this vision was realized
in 1998 and the Makindu Children's Center was born. Today, over
a hundred orphans are served at the Center. She was named Oregon Paramedic of the Year in 1998. She received
the Duke University Distinguished Alumni Award in 2000. The American
Academy of Physician Assistants (AAPA) named Ms. Barron recipient
of its 2002 International Humanitarian Physician Assistant of the
Year Award for her work in Africa. < < < Back
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