Over its 50+ years of PA education, MEDEX Northwest has graduated over 2,800 students, mission-driven health professionals all who have spread themselves out across the region, the country, and the world to make everyday differences in the communities they serve. Retired or still active, new to the profession or old hands, their stories are as rich and varied as the lives of the patients they have touched. Read past Alumni Newsletters here.
For our inaugural entry of the Alumni Spotlight series, Tacoma faculty member and MEDEX Alumni lead Jannelle Fukuji sat down with Mike Carter, PA-C, of MEDEX Tacoma Class 1, whose career reflects the full scope of the PA profession across clinical practice, leadership, education, and mentorship.
MEDEX Magazine sat down with long-time MEDEX Northwest faculty member Lois Thetford on the eve of her retirement from MEDEX. Lois was also a couple of weeks away from celebrating her 80th birthday, though you would never have known it if judging by the level of energy and degree of [...]
Word has only just reached us that First Lieutenant Sarah Clark, PA-C, a 2020 graduate of MEDEX Northwest’s Tacoma Class 6, passed away unexpectedly on April 17, 2025.
MEDEX Northwest recognizes the passing of Seattle Class 5 graduate James Arthur Davidson on Thursday, December 5, 2024, in Tacoma, Washington.
We’re taking time here at MEDEX Northwest to remember with fondness and gratitude our longtime colleague and friend Tim Evans, MD, Ph.D., FACP, who passed away in Seattle on September 3, 2024 at the age of 77.
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In recognition of 2024 Hispanic-Latinx-AfroLatinx American Heritage Month, we honor the remarkable life and legacy of the late Alfredo “Al” Lopez, PA, a trailblazer from the second graduating class of the MEDEX Northwest PA Program at the University of Washington.
Robert Woodruff, PA-C, is a member of MEDEX Seattle Class 1 (1969), MEDEX Northwest’s first graduating class, and has remained a good friend and supporter of MEDEX Northwest in the 55 years since. Like virtually all of his Class 1 classmates, Bob served in the Vietnam war. He was an [...]
Sarah Serpinas, MS, PA-C, is a Lecturer on the Didactic Faculty of the MEDEX Spokane campus. A graduate of MEDEX Spokane Class 12 (2010), Sarah joined the MEDEX Spokane faculty in 2014. In addition to her teaching duties, she is a provider at the Kaiser Permanente Riverfront Medical Center in [...]
The MEDEX Northwest family mourns the recent passing of Phoumy Bounkeua, PA-C. He was so generous, those who knew him are saying. A real class act. A genuinely wonderful guy. At the time of his admission to MEDEX Seattle Class 23 (1991), Phoumy had the distinction of being the youngest [...]
