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2024-2025 Leadership Team

Elected Officers

PresidentVic Holmes, PA-C, EdD

President-electVictoria Ho, PA-C

Immediate Past President: Shani Wilson, PA-C

Secretary: Madeleine Zeichner, PA-C

Treasurer: Cooper Couch, PA-C

Directors at Large:

  • Efren Torres, PA-C
  • Debb Dunn, PA-C
  • Elijah Salzer, DMSc, PA-C
  • Wren George, PA-C

Mark Behar, PA-C, DFAAPA, ex officio

Committees & Appointed Chairs

Student Leader Fellowship Award

Chair - Casey Messer, PA-C

Policy & Government Affairs Director - Whitney Hewitt, PA-C
Membership & Development Chair - Jonathan Baker, PA-C
Communications Chair - Madeleine Zeichner, PA-C
Diversity Chair - Efren Torres, PA-C
Education Chair - Elijah Salzer, PA-C 
Conference Planning Chair - Victoria Ho, PA-C

Student Leader Fellowship program

2024-2025 term

Student Leader Fellows:

  • Finley Kernan-Schlos (they/them)

Student Leader Fellows in conjunction with the African Heritage PA Caucus:

  • Sara F James

Student Leader Fellows in conjunction with PAs for Latino Health:

  • Carlos Hugo Silva, Florida Gulf Coast University

2023-2024 Leadership TeAm
Elected Officers

President: Shani Wilson, PA-C 

President-elect: Vic Holmes, PA-C

Immediate Past President: Jeff Straw, PA-C

Secretary: Victoria Ho, PA-C

Treasurer: Cooper Couch, PA-C

Directors at Large:

  • Deborah Dunn, PA-C

  • Sunshine Orta, PA-C

  • Ariana Golchin, PA-C 

  • Elijah Salzer, DMSc, PA-C

  • Victoria Murphy-Wong, PA-C


Mark Behar, PA-C, DFAAPA, ex officio

Committees & Appointed Chairs

Student Leaders Fellowship Award

Chair - Casey Messer, PA-C

Policy & Government Affairs Director - Whitney Hewitt, PA-C
Membership & Development Chair - Jonathan Baker, PA-C
Communications Chair - Victoria Ho, PA-C
Diversity Chair - Debb Dunn PA-C
Education Chair - Elijah Salzer, PA-C 
Conference Planning Chair - Victoria Ho, PA-C


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Student Leader Fellowship program

2023-2024 term

Student Leader Fellows:

  • Victoria Cammarano, PA-S Valparaiso University Valparaiso, IN

Student Leader Fellows in conjunction with the African Heritage PA Caucus:

To be announced

Student Leader Fellows in conjunction with PAs for Latino Health:

  • Efren Torres, PA-S - A.T. Still University Santa Maria, CA  

Student Leader Fellowship Alumni

2022-2023
  • Cameron Adelman, Johnson & Wales University, RI
  • Holden Camp, University of Alabama at Birmingham, AL
  • Wren George, Wingate University, Hendersonville, NC
  • Kierra Gipson, Lincoln Memorial University, TN

Student Fellow in conjunction with PAs for Latino Health:

  • Andie DeLuna, PA-S - Escuela de Medicine San Juan Bautista, PR (2023)

2021-2022

  • Bryan Cuadra, Mass. College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, MA
2020-2021
  • Victoria Ho, Sacred Heart University, CT
    • Director-at-Large, LBGT PA Caucus, 2021-22
    • Secretary, LBGT PA Caucus, 2022-24
  • Andrew Persaud, George Washington University, Washington DC
  • Kayla Pulley, Radford University, NC

Student Fellows in conjunction with the African Heritage PA Caucus:

  • Cal Richards, Frostburg State University, MD (2020)
  • Tre Landry, Northeastern University, MA (2021)
2019-2020
  • Alejandro Ramirez Lopez, Duke University, NC
  • Kelly Muñoz, University of Florida
2018-2019
  • Ashwin Gupta, Temple University, PA
  • Blake Beck, University of the Pacific, CA
    • Student Academy Delegate, 2019
  • Christina Wojnarwsky, Shenandoah University, VA
    • LBGT PA Caucus Policy Co-Chair, 2019-20
    • President-elect, LBGT PA Caucus, 2020-21
    • President, LBGT PA Caucus, 2022-23
  • Cooper Couch, University of Southern California, CA
    • Treasurer, LBGT PA Caucus, 2023-24
    • President, Student Academy, 2019-20
  • Danny Mulcahy, Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Science
    • Director-at-Large, LBGT PA Caucus, 2019-21
  • Lauren Woolley, Lenoir-Rhyne University, NC
2017-2018
  • Hanna Rajabi, Temple University, PA
  • Stefan Meers, Florida International University, FL
  • Vicki Wong, CUNY School of Medicine, NY
    • Director-at-large, LBGT PA Caucus, 2021-23
2016-2017
  • Cameron Nicholson, Barry University, FL
    • Director-at-Large, LBGT PA Caucus, 2017-2019
    • President, LBGT PA Caucus, 2020-2021
  • Mia McDonald, Jefferson College of Health Sciences, VA
    • Student Academy Board of Directors Chief Delegate, 2017-18
    • Health Professional in Training Board Member, GLMA, 2016-18 
    • Director-at-Large, LBGT PA Caucus, 2017-19
    • President, LBGT PA Caucus, 2019-20
    • VP of Membership & Development, GLMA, 2018-21
2015-2016
  • Jocelyn Early, Quinnipiac University ,CT
    • Treasurer, LBGT PA Caucus, 2016-18
  • Ross Morgan, Pace University, NY
2014-2015
  • Kat Malagon-Morris, CUNY York, NY
    • Treasurer, LBGT PA Caucus, 2015-16
    • President, LBGT PA Caucus, 2018-19 
  • Alex Sherry, University of Oklahoma
2013-2014
  • Laura Jennings-Bonner, Drexel University, PA
    • President, LBGT PA Caucus, 2016-17
  • Christopher Dietrich, MEDEX/University of Washington
    • President, Alaska Collaborative for Telemedicine and Telehealth
2012-2013
  • Anna Christenson-Moles, University of Colorado Denver
2011-2012
2010-2011
  • Casey Messer, University of Kentucky, Lexington
    • President, LBGT PA Caucus 2017-18
  • Ryan Narcisco, Quinnipiac, CT
  • Elizabeth (Fizzy) Ramsey, Marietta College, OH
2009-2010
  • Phil Burke, University of Oklahoma
    • Treasurer, PA PAC, Oklahoma Academy of Physician Assistants (OAPA)
    • President, PA PAC, OAPA
    • Chief Delegate, OAPA
  • Gerald (Gerry) Jones, Touro University, Nevada
    • Secretary, LBGT PA Caucus
    • President, LBGT PA Caucus, 2013-14
    • Chief Delegate, Nevada Academy of Physician Assistants (NAPA)
2008-2009
  • Jeremy Nelson, University of Iowa
    • Treasurer, LBGT PA Caucus Treasurer
    • President, Iowa PA Society
    • Chief Delegate, Iowa PA Society
    • Delegate, Iowa PA Society
  • Missy Novak, Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Science
    • President, LBGT PA Caucus
2007-2008
  • Travis Sherer, Pace University, NY
    • Director-at-Large, GLMA
    • Treasurer, GLMA
    • President, LBGT PA Caucus

(Alumni list in progress)                       

Past Caucus Officers

City, Year

Co-Chair

Co-Chair

Secretary/Treasurer/

Membership

Newsletter Editor/ Secretary (1996)

1979: Caucus Founded by Ron Vachon, Clover Jacobson and Mark Behar

New Orleans, 1980

 Ron Vachon

 Clover Jacobson

 

Ron Vachon

San Diego, 1981

Clover Jacobson

Ron Vachon

 

Ron Vachon

Washington, 1982

 George Steffen

Clover Jacobson

Dean Bergstrud

Ron Vachon

St Louis, 1983

Rosemary Strube

George Steffen

Dean Bergstrud

 

Denver, 1984

Daryl Kirk

Rosemary Strube

Dean Bergstrud (Sec/Treas), George Steffen (Membership)

Eric Schuman

San Antonio, 1985

Terri McAllister

Dennis James

Daryl Kirk

Eric Schuman

Boston, 1986

Vince Engle Terri McAllister    

 


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