NEW MEXICO ACADEMY OF PHYSICIAN ASSISTANTS
The mission of the New Mexico Academy of Physician Assistants is to promote quality, cost-effective, and accessible health care to the people of New Mexico and to promote the professional and personal growth of Physician Assistants.
The NMAPA is a constituent chapter of the American Academy of Physician Assistants (AAPA) .
Incorporated in 1981, NMAPA is the authoritative voice of physician assistants in New Mexico.
01.25.12
FUTURE BOARD OF DIRECTOR'S MEETINGS
March 29, 2012
June 28, 2012
Location is same, LoboCare Clinic. Time 6:30pm.
01.24.12
The next BOD meeting is January 26th at 6:30pm.
12.31.11
The 2012 Primary Care Conference will be held again in September. Please visit us again here for more details as the date approaches.
01.09.12
BOARD MEETING ANNOUNCED
The next NMAPA Board Meetng witll be held at Lobocare on Thursday, January 26, 2012 at 6:30pm. See below for information about how to participate.
The physical address to attend is:
LoboCare Clinic
1101-4 Medical Arts, Bldg 4
Albuquerque, NM 87102
From Lomas and I-25, Medical Arts Ave is the first road just east of the frontage road on the south side of Lomas. Go south on Medical Arts Ave. You will go up a hill to a three-way stop sign, at that sign go straight. Follow this main road to the back of the plaza. Building 4 is the last building all the way at the end. Park on the south side of the building and the door on that side will be open.
To attend via conference call:
Dial the access number: (800) 444-2801
Enter your conference code: 1244185
Enter your security code: 694
(only needed when starting a conference)
JANUARY 2012 NEWSLETTER
09.16.11
Congratulation to our annual award winners:
Gerald H. Ross Lifetime Achievement
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Each year a new Board of Directors is elected from a pool of qualified fellow members of the NMAPA. If you are interested in leadership opportunities with the NMAPA please contact us.
The following fellows make up our current BOD (2011-12):
President
Mikal Smoker, PA-C
President-Elect
Howard Diaz, PA-C
Immediate Past President
Stacey Smith, PA-C
Treasurer
Kathy Johnson, PA-CC
Recording Secretary
Yvonne Ellington, PA-C
Membership Secretary
Sabrina Johnson, PA-C
Student Representatives
Sacha Anastas
Kim Byrd - UNM
Directors-at-Large
Region 1 NW: Jonathan Redwing, PA-C
Region 2 NE: Angela Baumeister, PA-C
Region 3 SW: Vacant
Region 4 SE: C. Daniel Otero, PA-C
Region 5 (Abq. Metro): Sarah Charles, PA-C, Laura Grimes, PA-C
AAPA House of Delegates Alternate
Luke Lujan, PA-C
For the past ten years the NMAPA has been managed by Erin Damour. Her experience in association management as well as her artistic side have helped guide and direct the NMAPA. She spent eight years as the Executive Director of the New Mexico Pediatric Society between 2001 and 2009.
January 26
March 29
June 28
awards_criteria.pdf
2010 Nominations Awards_BOD Form.pdf
Each year in September the NMAPA presents the Primary Care Conference, a continuing medical education program held over two and a half days.
Please check back here for more information about the conference, i.e. dates, CME topics, location and fees.
For licensing to an MD, contact the New Mexico Medical Board via post at
2055 S. Pacheco
Santa Fe, NM 87505
or via email: nmbme_state.nm.us
or call toll-free 800-945-5845 or
505-476-7220.
For licensing to a DO, contact the
New Mexico Board of Osteopathic Examiners
Toney Anaya Building
2550 Cerrillos Road Second Floor
or call 505-476-4654
For state rules and regulations visit the NMMB website .
January 2012 Newsletter
11spring.pdf
10 Fall.pdf
We are pleased to extend to you this invitation to renew your NMAPA membership, or join anew. We hope you will find membership a valuable addition to your life as a physician assistant and hope you will consider supporting the NMAPA and its mission with a membership.
We think youll find a lot to like as a member of the New Mexico Academy of Physician Assistants. Benefits of membership include:
Please feel free to call or email if you have questions, ways in which youd like to become more active in NMAPA affairs, or ideas about how to make the NMAPA better.
Membership fees are due the 1st of July each year; membership is valid for from July-June of each year.
Paying by check?
Download, complete and print the membership application below and mail it with your check payable to:
New Mexico Academy of Physician Assistants POB 40331
ABQ, NM 87196
Want to pay online?
Complete the PayPal transaction ($3 fee applies) below then download the membership application, complete it and save the PDF. Then return the application via post or email. Please put your name in the subject line of your email to us. Double check your information is saved in the form. Your email will act as your signature.
FELLOW: NCCPA certified or board eligible PA who is a fellow member of AAPA. Resides or works in New Mexico. Privilege of the floor, hold formal office, and vote.
SUSTAINING: A PA eligible for fellow membership who is not a fellow member of AAPA, or has chosen not to practice in the PA profession. Privilege of the floor.
ASSOCIATE: Engaged in selling products or other services to Pas who does not qualify for other membership categories. Privilege of the floor.
PHYSICIAN: U.S. licensed physician who wishes to associate with NMAPA. Privilege of the floor.
AFFILIATE: Ineligible for any of the above categories who wish to affiliate with NMAPA and is approved by the NMAPA Board of Directors. Includes PAs from another state who would like to
support NMAPA. Privilege of the floor.
STUDENT: Enrolled in an ARC-PA accredited program or an unaccredited program recognized by AAPA. Privilege of the floor. Memberships are good until your graduation date listed.
membership_app.pdf
Fellow (1 Year) $80.00 (2 Years) $150.00
Sustaining $75.00
Physician/Associate $50.00
Affiliate/Student $25.00
Fellow 1 Year
Fellow 2 Years
Sustaining
Physician/Associate
Affiliate/Student
Employers with job openings, in New Mexico, may post jobs on this site for 60 days. We are unable to post recruiter postings at this time. Please send your job posting in text only format (links to websites can be embedded) to us via email.
Posted 01/10/12
We are actively recruiting for two physician assistants for a fast pace growing orthopaedic practice in Alamogordo, New Mexico at the base of the beautiful Sacramento Mountains. The hospital has a newly constructed orthopaedic wing and a successful Joint Replacement Program. Physician specialties include: general orthopaedics, trauma, sports medicine, and joint reconstruction surgeries including total wrists, total shoulders, total knees, and total hips. Highly competitive employment package. Surgeons will train.
Job duties include:
•Surgical first assist
•Evaluation and treatment postoperatively
•Daily hospital rounds
•Documentation: H&P,Discharge summary, Daily Progress Notes
•New patient examination, evaluation, and treatment in the clinic including interpretation of radiological exams and joint injections
Please contact Denise at 515-574-9852 with questions.
Posted 12/8/11
UNM Health Sciences Center Department of Cardiology has two openings for PAs. Please see the two flyers PA Cardiology and PA Cath Lab. Please contact Patricia Esquibel if you have any further question 505-272-6020.
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There is an opening for urgent care in Espanola. It pays very well and the need is mostly Mondays and Tuesdays, but they would consider full-time employment. Contact is Dr Debi Sanchez at debisanchez_hotmail.com if anyone is interested.
Physician Assistant needed for regional interventional pain practice in southern New Mexico. Please submit resumes "Attn: Samantha" to:
3400 Peachtree Rd, Ste 811, Atlanta, GA 30326
Fax: 404-920-4359
E-mail: scrandall_physiciancontrol.com
Or call 404-920-4950
Students are welcome to join our association and we have two Student Representatives on our Board each year as ex-officio members.
Students may attend the annual Primary Care Conference each year free of charge.
The purpose of the fund is to financially assist students of the UNM PA program. The main criteria for the award are:
financial need (we assume all students are financially needy), the student's expressed interest in working in a rural or underserved area upon graduation and,
the students participation in activities during their time in school which supports the PA Program, the School of Medicine and NMAPA activities.
One or two awards of $500 are given per year to a senior PA student. The amount disbursed depends in large degree on the total amount in the fund and how its investments have done that year. Senior students are solicited to apply for the award in the spring of their senior year. The PA program faculty does not choose the scholarship recipient. Rather, an independent panel of scholarship donor-PAs reviews all nominations and selects the recipient. The recipients name is announced at graduation ceremonies in August. For more information about this scholarship, contact Neal O'Callaghan, PA-C, Scholarship Fund Chair
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The UNM PA Program scholarship fund came into being in 1998 through the efforts of the NMAPA. At that time when the UNM PA Program was in its toddler stage, the NMAPA board established the fund with the University of New Mexico's Office of Development. UNM holds and oversees investment of the fund, takes in contributions, and releases money for scholarships. UNMs management of the fund is quite beneficial to NMAPA because it provides charitable organization status so that contributors can get a tax deduction for their donation. Theres no charge to NMAPA for UNMs management. The main qualification to make the fund permanent (i.e. to endow it) was that NMAPA had to raise $10,000. Please note that when the fund was established, it was solely dedicated to the UNM PA Program and its students. There were no other PA programs in existence in NM at that time. The fund can make awards only to UNM PA Program students now and in the future.
NMAPA named the fund the Robert A. Norton, PA-C Scholarship Fund in honor of Bob Norton, a pioneering PA who came to NM in the early 70s, worked in many rural areas, battled for enabling legislation for PA practice and prescriptive privileges, and helped found of the UNM PA Program. Bob moved to Albuquerque in the 80s due to kidney failure. In the early 90s he had a kidney transplant but remained active providing medical care through Healthcare for the Homeless. Bob was awarded the AAPA Inner City PA of the Year award in 1995. Bob died in 1998. The next year, NMAPA bestowed its highest honor on Bob by making him the first recipient, posthumously, of the NMAPA Lifetime Achievement award. Bobs daughter, Shaley OBrien-Norton, PA-C accepted the award for her father in a moving ceremony at the fall CME conference. By the way, Bob and Shaley were the first father-daughter PA combination in the nation.
Soliciting donations to the fund began in earnest in 1999. In addition to the amount donated by NMAPA, many PAs in the state made individual contributions of $25 $500. There is a list of charter donors on the plaques in the hallway of the PA program. Ernie Gonzales, PA-C made the single largest individual donation in 2000 when he was honored by AAPA with the Rural PA of the Year award. He donated $2500 of his award to the scholarship. Several heathcare institutions also donated to the fund including Lovelace and Presbyterian Healthcare Systems. Thanks to all of the contributions, the fund reached the permanent $10,000 endowment level in late 1999. One of the UNM Foundation officers said that it was the fastest endowment of any fund at UNM he had ever seen. There is currently approximately $20,000 in the fund.
There are two schools offering PA studies in New Mexico. Please visit each institution's website to find out more information about each program.
St. Francis University
The University of St. Francis offers its master of science in Physician Assistant Studies program in the land of enchantment -- New Mexico -- within the city of Albuquerque that offers a rich diversity of cultures, exciting attractions and a magical landscape.
The University of New Mexico
The Physician Assistant Program is administered within the Department of Family & Community Medicine. Student instruction is provided by the physician assistant faculty as well as by integrative instruction with the School of Medicine.
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NMAPA
PO Box 40331
Albuquerque, New Mexico 87196
