News & Events

Announcements, updates, posts, invitations, and stories linked to the daily aspects of MEDEX Northwest, its five campuses, its place in the UW Medicine’s Department of Family Medicine, and its leading role in the field of PA education.

MEDEX Kona Class 3 Student Keli Jackson Recipient of PAEA 2023-24 Student Health Policy Fellowship
August 22, 2023

You may have heard the news from the PA Education Association (PAEA), but it bears repeating because this news is extra special this year. We are very happy and proud to announce that, for a second consecutive year, a MEDEX student—Keli Jackson of Kona Class 3—has been selected for the [...]

Portrait of a Community Response, Part One
August 18, 2023

Until news of the catastrophic wildfires raging in Maui on the evening of Tuesday, August 8 began to make its way across the state and nation, things at the MEDEX Kona campus were pretty much buzzing along as planned. Members of Kona Class 4 (KC4), the newest cohort of MEDEX [...]

2023 MEDEX Northwest Student Scholarships
June 14, 2023

We are happy to announce the recipients of the 2023 MEDEX Student Scholarships. There are eight scholarship categories, each named after an individual of particular signficance to the MEDEX Northwest PA program. Decisions are based primarily on the evaluation by MEDEX Northwest leadership of short essays submitted by the students [...]

Remembering MEDEX Class 1 Graduate John Betz, PA-C (January 25, 1942 – April 3, 2023)
May 8, 2023

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Preparing Future Primary Care Providers to Take on the Opioid Crisis
April 11, 2023

MEDEX Northwest Students Ready for Full Day of Buprenorphine Training Students from across all five of MEDEX Northwest’s campuses will participate in a full-day Buprenorphine training in the treatment of opioid use disorder (OUD) in preparation for their primary care clinical rotations: MEDEX Kona (April 14), MEDEX Anchorage (April 21), [...]

Remembering Phoumy Bounkeua, PA-C
April 7, 2023

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 [...]

More Favorite Things
February 7, 2023

We so enjoyed putting together last year’s My Favorite Things post for 2022 Black History Month — a collection of lists submitted by Black MEDEX Northwest students, faculty and staff of their favorite actors, movies, foods, music, tv shows, and books rooted in the Black/African Diaspora experience — that we [...]

Remembering Ruth Ballweg, MPH, PA-C Emeritus (1944-2022)
November 22, 2022

MEDEX Northwest is remembering our colleague and former longtime leader of the MEDEX program, Ruth Ballweg, MPA, PA-C Emeritus, who passed away on Sunday, November 20, 2022. We are comforted to hear from Ruth’s family that “her last hours were painless and peaceful, managed by a brilliant team of hospice [...]

Donning the White Coat
September 22, 2022

During the second week of September 2022, MEDEX faculty, staff and students observed Transition Week across all its five campuses. A central component of this process is the White Coat Ceremony: a gathering of students, faculty and often family members, at which students are ritualistically presented with their signature white [...]

The MEDEX Northwest 2022 Graduation Season
September 14, 2022

August marks graduation season at MEDEX Northwest. This year’s gatherings were the first to be held in-person since 2019, bringing an added flavor of relief as students, faculty and families came together in common spaces to honor and celebrate the graduates. We also added a fifth ceremony to our usual [...]