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.

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 [...]

The Return of the MEDEX Alumni Reception and Awards Ceremony
May 6, 2022

The MEDEX Alumni Reception and Awards Ceremony returned to the scene on Saturday April 23, 2022, after a two-year hiatus due to COVID-19 restrictions. The 2022 edition was held in conjunction with the Washington Academy of Physician Assistants (WAPA) 33rd Annual Spring Conference at the Seattle Airport Marriott Hotel. The [...]

2022 MEDEX Northwest Student Scholarship Recipients
April 8, 2022

We are pleased to announce the recipients of the 2022 MEDEX Student Scholarships. There are eight scholarship categories, each named after an individual of particular importance to the MEDEX Northwest PA program. Decisions are based primarily on the evaluation by MEDEX leadership of short essays submitted by the students with [...]

My Favorite Things
February 16, 2022

We continue our recognition of 2022 Black History Month with “My Favorite Things,” a collection of lists gathered from participating MEDEX Northwest faculty, staff and students of favorite actors, movies, foods, music, television, books and actors rooted in the Black/African Diaspora experience. FOODS: I am Eritrean, so by default one [...]