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Date Published: October 3, 2022

PAEA Celebrates 50 Years!

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Happy 50th anniversary to our friends and colleagues at the PAEA!  The PA History Society Board and Staff looks forward to celebrating with them at the PAEA Forum this month. Check out PAEA’s special anniversary webpage to see the fun and exciting ways they have been celebrating this year by clicking here.

Please click here to watch the 2015 interview with Alfred M. Sadler, Jr., the first board president of PAEA.

For the PAEA’s 30th Anniversary in 2002, the PA History Society arranged video recorded interviews with Thomas Piemme (second president), Suzanne Greenberg (first secretary/treasurer) and Don Fisher (first executive director). This was one of the first projects of the Society as 2002 is the year we were founded! The Society also hosted a panel discussion with the three, moderated by Society co-founders Reg Carter and Jeff Heinrich. To watch the interviews and the panel discussion, please see the links below.

Thomas Piemme

Suzanne Greenberg

Don Fisher Interview

Group Interview with Piemme, Greenberg, and Fisher

Panel Discussion at PAEA Education Forum

For an interview with Timi Agar Barwick, former chief executive officer of PAEA, please click here.

Please see below for a list of past presidents of the PAEA. If their names are in gold, please click on it to be taken to their biography!

1972 – 1973 Alfred M. Sadler, Jr., MD

1973 – 1974 Thomas E. Piemme, MD

1974 – 1975 Robert Jewett, MD

1975 – 1976 C. Hilmon Castle, MD

1976 – 1977 C. Hilmon Castle, MD

1977 – 1978 Frances L Horvath, MD

Photo to right: Fran Horvath Receiving Presidential Gavel from C. Hilmon Castle, 1977

1978 – 1979 Archie S. Golden, MD

1979 – 1980 Thomas R. Godkins, PA-C

1981 – 1982 David E. Lewis, Med

1982 – 1983 Reginald D. Carter, PhD, PA-C

1983 – 1984 Stephen C. Gladhart, EdD

1984 – 1985 Robert H. Curry, MD, MPH

1985 – 1986 Denis R. Oliver, PhD

1986 – 1987 C. Emil Fasser, PA-C

1987 – 1988 Jack Liskin, MA, PA-C

1988 – 1989 Jesse C. Edwards, MA

1988 – 1989 Suzanne B. Greenberg, MS

1989 – 1990 Steven R. Shelton, MBA, PA-C

1990 – 1991 Ruth Ballweg, PA-C

1991 – 1992 Albert F. Simon, PA-C

1992 – 1993 Anthony A. Miller, PA-C

1993 – 1994 Richard R. Rahr, EdD, PA-C

1994 – 1995 Ronald D. Garcia, PhD

[Photo to right: APAP Faculty at Student Challenge Bowl – Ronald Garcia (“A”), Laura Stuetzer (“P”), Sherry Stolberg (far right), others unidentified, Nashville Conference, 1992.]

1995 – 1996 James Hammond, MA, PA-C

1996 – 1997 J. Dennis Blessing, PhD, PA-C

1997 – 1998 Donald L. Pedersen, PhD, PA-C

1998 – 1999 Walter A. Stein, MHCA – PA-C

1999 – 2000 P. Eugene Jones, PhD, PA-C

2000 – 2001 Gloria Stewart, EdD, PA-C

2001 – 2002 David Asprey, PhD, PA-C

2002 – 2003 James F. Cawley, MPH, PA-C

2003 – 2004 Paul L. Lombardo, MPD-HSA, PA-C Emeritus

2004 – 2005 Patrick T. Knott, PhD, PA-C

2005 – 2006 Dawn Morton-Rias, EdD, PA-C

[Photo to right: APAP BOD from left to right: Ron Garcia, Kathleen Dobbs, James (Jim) Hammond, Dawn Morton-Rias and Dennis Blessing. New York Conference, 1996.]

2007 Anita D. Glicken, MSW

2008 Dana L. Sayre – Stanhope, EdD, PA-C

2009 Justine Strand de Oliveira, DrPH, PA-C

2010 Ted Ruback, MS, PA-C

2011 Kevin Lohenry, PhD, PA-C

2012 Anthony Brenneman, MPAS, PA-C

2013 Constance Goldgar, MS, PA-C

2014 Karen Hills, MS, PA-C

2015 Stephane VanderMuelen, MPAS, PA-C

2016 Jennifer Snyder, PhD, PA-C

2017 William Kohlhepp, DHSc, PA-C

2018 Lisa Mustone Alexander, EdD, MPH, PA-C

2019 Jonathan Bowser, MS, PA-C

2020 Howard Straker, PhD, MPH, PA-C

2021 Michel Statler, MLA, PA-C

2022 Kara Caruthers, MSPAS, PA-C

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