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The Physician Assistant Education Association featured Tonia Poteat, PhD, MPH, among five women who have advanced the PA profession.


This past March, in honor of Women’s History Month, the Physician Assistant Education Association featured five women who have advanced the PA profession, including Tonia Poteat, PhD, MPH, associate professor in the UNC Department of Social Medicine and core faculty member of the UNC Center of Health Equity Research. Read the full story and Listen to her oral history to learn how she became a PA, how she became interested in working with HIV patients, her advice for volunteer opportunities, and her advice for new PAs.