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Strand, MPH, PA-C
Associate Professor
Division Chief
BHS and PA Certificate, Duke University, 1981
MPH, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1998
Ms. Strand oversees the Physician Assistant Division of the Department of Community and Family Medicine. She serves as a Co-coordinator for Practice & the Health System, the coordinator for the Gynecology and OB units of Clinical Medicine for the Physician Assistant Program and as Co-director, Introduction to Health Care Policy (with Christopher Conover, PhD, Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy). She works as a physician assistant at the Duke Family Medicine Center. Ms. Strand’s areas of clinical and educational interests include: women's health, health workforce, cultural competence, international health, medical sociology, and organizational behavior.
Ms. Strand has served as a Co-chair, APAP Research Institute, AAPA/APAP Research Grants Program, as Vice Chair of the Advisory Committee on Primary Care Medicine and Dentistry, Title VII, Health Resources and Services Administration and as a Director at Large for the Association of Physician Assistant Programs. She currently serves on the Advisory Council for the North Carolina Center for Nursing, as a member of the North Carolina Institute of Medicine and is President of the North Carolina Medical Society Foundation. Ms. Strand is a member of Pi Alpha, the national physician assistant honor society. She was the 2005 Outstanding PA of the Year for the American Academy of Physician Assistants.
Recent articles have included: “Anticipating the Profession’s Future” for the Journal of the American Academy of Physician Assistants, “Physician Assistants: Last Bastion of Primary Care - or Will They Follow Physicians into Specialized Practice?” for the North Carolina Medical Journal and “Health Belief Models” for Perspective on Physician Assistant Education.
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