|  William
D. Stanhope, MPAS, PA-C
Associate Director, Special Projects
Institute for Bio-security
St. Louis University
St. Louis, Missouri
Class of 1969
Induction: 2002 Mr. Stanhope served for three years in the Army as a surgical technician
at Fort Dix, NJ and the Landstuhl Army Medical Center prior to entering
the Duke PA program. During his tenure as a PA student he organized
the first student group, which became the Stead society and was
the Founding President of the American Academy of Physician Assistants
where he served two terms. Subsequently he served the Academy for
two terms as the Secretary (1972 - 1974). Immediately after his 1969 graduation, he began his academic career
as an Instructor at the Alderson Broaddus College PA Program where
he completed his baccalaureate degree. Two years later he joined
the University of Oklahoma to become the first PA to hold the position
of program director and the first PA to earn the rank of tenured
Associate Professor at a major medical school where he remained
for thirteen years. He served as one of the PA representatives on
the National Board of Medical Examiners Steering Committee as it
developed the first set of national examinations for PA's and was
instrumental in the evolution of the NCCPA. In 1979 he became the
first and, to date, only PA selected as a Robert Wood Johnson Health
Policy Fellow. Upon completion of his year as a member of the Congressional staff
he established the Occupational Medicine/Industrial Hygiene program,
one of the first post-graduate programs for PA's. In 1984, Mr. Stanhope
left Oklahoma for New York where he completed the PA surgical residency
at Montefiore Hospital in the Bronx. He subsequently returned to
academics and assumed the directorship at the Harlem Hospital PA
program where he remained for eight years. The culmination of his
career in academic administration was his tenure at Touro University,
Mare Island where he established a combined PA/MPH program and served
as the Acting Dean of the School of Health Sciences. Currently he
is an Associate Professor and Associate Director of the Center for
the Institute for Bio-security at the Saint Louis University School
of Public Health Clinically he has pursued a life-long interest in the management
of spine problems and chronic pain. He developed and ran an orthopedic
spine clinic at the Oklahoma City VA hospital earning a clinical
associate professorship in the Department of Orthopedic Surgery.
He was the director of a comprehensive neurosurgical spine service
at Montefiore Hospital and practiced as a surgical PA in neurosurgery
in the San Francisco Bay area. . He has been the recipient of many national honors including the
Duke Distinguished Alumnus Award in 1995, the Veteran's Caucus Award
and in recognition of his contributions to the PA community in Oklahoma
the Dean of the Medical School endowed a scholarship in his name.
His academic interests have focused on the challenges of increasing
minority representation in the profession, issues associated with
incorporating international medical graduates in the profession
and competency based education. His clinical interests have focused
on the problems of infection control, acquired and degenerative
diseases of the spine and chronic pain.
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