The Barry University Physician Assistant Program (BUPAP) recently celebrated its 10th anniversary at a joint reception at both the Miami Shores and St. Petersburg campuses.

(l-r) Dr. Richard Fien; PA program director Dr. Doreen C Parkhurst; Barry University President Sr. Linda Bevilacqua, OP, PhD; Barry University Provost Dr. Linda Peterson; (second row) Director of BU’s Master of Public Health Program Richard T. Patton; James O’Connor, MS, PA-C; Dr. Charles Culver; BU Vice-President for Institutional Advancement Ann Paton; Keith Moore, JD, PA-C; David Molnar, PhD, and Dimitri Hilton are among the many guests at the 10th anniversary celebration of Barry’s Physician Assistant Program.

The campus receptions were connected through interactive videoconferencing allowing the students, faculty and other guests at the St. Petersburg campus to hear speeches by Barry University President Sister Linda Bevilacqua, OP, PhD, and Dr. Doreen Parkhurst, assistant dean of the School of Graduate Medical Sciences and director of the PA Program.

Since the inception of the program in 1997, the BUPAP has graduated more than 300 physician assistants and has received two three-year Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) Bureau of Health Professions grants of nearly $1 million for training PA students in medically underserved areas.