Features
Meet some of the people of MEDEX Northwest – students and faculty, founders and visionaries – who have helped to forge the forward path for PAs and affect change in world of progressive and responsible healthcare delivery.
Dr. Richard Smith and the Call to Desegregate America’s Hospitals
In recognition of Black History Month 2025, this excerpt from The People Collector: The Life of Dr. Richard A. Smith, the first complete telling of his life and times, follows Smith as he takes on the challenge of desegregating the nation’s hospitals.
MLK Day: Honoring Richard Smith and Rodney Powell’s Healthcare Legacy
“Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?'” When Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. posed this challenge in Montgomery, Alabama in 1957, he called for dedicated service to humanity. This spirit of service would find powerful expression at MEDEX Northwest through founder Dr. Richard Smith, [...]
You Have to Be All In – An Interview with Dr. Carrie Beebout
In anticipation of Veterans Day 2024, we sat down with new MEDEX Kona faculty member and Distant Campus Coordinator, Carrie Beebout, PsyD, MPAS, PA-C, to learn about and glean some wisdom from her multifaceted life as an experienced PA educator and Army veteran.
Remembering Dr. Tim Evans: MEDEX Colleague and Friend
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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PREPARING PAS TO TAKE ON THE OPIOID CRISIS
MEDEX Northwest’s Anchorage, Kona, Spokane, Seattle, and Tacoma Campuses Host Full Day of Training on Medication for Opioid Use Disorder (MOUD) On April 12, April 19, April 26, May 17, 2024, and May 21, 2024, community medical providers and students at the University of Washington MEDEX Northwest PA Program will [...]
“I Guess It All Worked Out”: An Interview with PA Pioneer Robert Woodruff, PA-C (MEDEX Seattle Class 1)
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 [...]
Healer’s Art: Building Relationships in Medicine
The Healer’s Art program has connected minds and experiences within the medical profession for decades and strengthened personal commitment toward the work therein. First started in 1991, the course was developed by Rachel Naomi Remen, MD. According to Dr. Remen, it offers “a safe learning environment for a personal in-depth exploration [...]
It Doesn’t Have to Define You: An Interview with Sarah Serpinas, MS, PA-C
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 [...]
Veterans Day 2023: The Journey
Since 1969 and the graduation of Seattle Class 1 – a group of 12 comprised entirely of military veterans – MEDEX Northwest has sought out military veterans to join our ranks, and today is no exception. In recognition of 2023 Veterans Day, we invited current MEDEX students with military backgrounds [...]
Pomai Murakami (MEDEX Kona Class 4) Receives Native Hawaiian Health Scholarship
MEDEX Kona Class 4 (2025) student Pomai Murakami was recently named a recipient of the Native Hawaiian Health Scholarship. We asked Pomai to reflect on how she came to learn about the scholarship, what it means to her to receive it, and what it will help her to achieve. Here [...]