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Carl M. Toney, P.A.
Assistant Professor and
Community Projects Coordinator
College of Health Professions
University of New England Class of 1979
Induction: 2002
Like many of his predecessors, Carl Toney obtained health care experience
as a military corpsman, serving in Vietnam, prior to entering the
Duke PA program. Immediately after graduation, completed the post-graduate
PA Residency Training in Emergency Medicine, Maine Medical Center,
Portland, Maine and later received an AB Degree in Political Science
from Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia. He is currently
working on a Masters Degree in Ethics at the Bangor Theological
Seminary, Portland, Maine.
Toney has served on the University of New England (UNE) faculty for 7 years
as an Assistant Professor, where he co-teaches interdisciplinary
courses in Clinical Medicine & Health Policy to medical, PA, nursing,
dental hygiene and social work students. Prior to UNE he held faculty
appointments at Duke University and Emory University Schools of
Medicine. In addition to his teaching responsibilities at UNE, Mr.
Toney has served as Associate Director of the Maine State-wide Area
Health Education Center (AHEC) Program; Director of the PA Program
and currently serves as the Project Director of the UNE Center for
Transcultural Health.
Mr. Toney practiced clinically in Family Practice, Internal Medicine
and Geriatrics. He has made significant contributions in the areas
of public policy serving as a consultant to the National Health
Service Corps, as a health manpower specialist for the Georgia State
Office of Rural Health, a U.S. Public Health Service Primary Care
Policy Fellow, and Director of the Office on AIDS & Sexually Transmitted
Disease Prevention for the Maine Bureau of Health. Over the years,
Mr. Toney has been active in a variety of professional organizations
including: the American Public Health Association; Maine Bioethics
Network; American Academy of PAs; Georgia Association of Physician
Assistants and North Carolina Academy of Physician Assistants. He
recently completed a term of office as President of the Association
of Clinicians for the Underserved, and currently serves as a member
of the Community Advisory Council of the Maine Health Access Foundation.
Mr. Toney has received numerous awards including the Richard J. Sheele Memorial Award, Duke University (1979), the PA of the Year Award, Georgia Association of PAs (1990), a resolution of Appreciation for Service to the State from the Georgia Composite State Board of Medical Examiners (1993), the Distinguished Alumnus Award, Duke University Physician Assistant Program (1994), and the Robert J. Lapham Outstanding Service Award, Downeast Association of PAs (1998). For his outstanding contributions to brining primary care to medically underserved communities, Mr. Toney was recently featured in Big Doctoring in America – Profiles in Primary Care by Fitzhugh Mullan, M.D., Univ. of CA Press (2002). < < < Back
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