The short communication was titled “Physician Assistant Students’ Unconscious Bias and Patient-centered Attitudes: Are They Related? and included co-authors from the Wake Forest School of Medicine: Jennifer Bailey, Gail Marion, Mark Archambault, Steve Davis, Carol Hildebrandt and Sonia Crandall. The abstract is available at: http://www.amee.org/documents/AMEE%202011%20Abstract%20Book.pdf and highlights the importance of helping future health care professionals identify their implicit biases so they can more effectively integrate patient-centered attitudes and skills in the care of all patients.

 The most recent was co-authored with Chioma Ngumezi MMS, PA-C, a 2011 Wake Forest School of Medicine PA Program graduate, and titled “When does treatment of subclinical hypothyroidism reduce cardiovascular risk?”. It was published in the February 2012 issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Physician Assistants.

An earlier piece was co-authored with Lauren Jewett MMS, PA-C, a 2011 Wake Forest School of Medicine PA Program graduate, and titled “Can an ACE inhibitor reduce the risk of developing progressive renal disease?” It was published in the September 2011 issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Physician Assistants and seeks to educate providers to reduce health disparities related to chronic kidney disease in African-Americans.

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