I am thrilled to introduce our newest core faculty member for the Advanced Practice Provider Leadership Certificate Course co-sponsored by the UPMC Office of Advanced Practice Providers and the University of Pittsburgh School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences—Kathryn Reed, PA-C. Kathryn is an assistant professor and vice chair for Equity, Inclusion and Community Engagement in the Department of Physician Assistant Studies. She has practiced in both family and internal medicine and is the founder and president of the National Society of Black Physician Assistants (NSBPA). She has assisted tremendously in evaluating the course and ensuring we are doing the work to offer inclusive and diverse education that is integrated throughout every aspect of the curriculum.
“The APP Leadership Certificate Course is an invaluable resource and I am grateful to be a part of the team! Working to ensure the course content integrates and represents the equity, inclusion and diversity we want to see in health care is a motivating challenge that I enjoy. To embed these principles further we have created a new APP Leadership Course Tuition Scholarship which aims to increase access to this resource to all APPs, including those with diverse lived experiences who may not have the personal or institutional financial resources to participate in the course. We want to ensure that accessing our course is not a barrier preventing APPs from ascending to well-deserved leadership positions in health care,” says Kathryn.
New Scholarship Opportunity
As leaders of this course, we recognize that every individual has their own “distance traveled,” which represents lived experience; including the barriers and challenges they have overcome to reach their personal and professional goals.
“Distance traveled” is unique to each individual and often includes circumstances we are born into or that occur early in our lives that continue to affect us as adult professionals.
One major factor in “distance traveled” is intergenerational mobility: A person’s ability to access opportunities to obtain a high-quality education and their career. Income and wealth goals are directly influenced by family or foster care upbringing (including such factors as parental income, culture, thoughts/beliefs and others) and demographics (race, class and gender).
Additionally, individuals of minoritized gender identities, sexual orientations, ability/disability statuses, national origins, and other identities, backgrounds and experiences often face significant disadvantages as they pursue their goals.
Through this scholarship, we are using financial resources to ease the path to leadership for as many of our colleagues as we can. We ask anyone registering in this course to consider applying for this scholarship, but keep in mind your current resources and only apply if you are in need of financial assistance.
How to Apply for the APP Leadership Course Tuition Scholarship
Using 1,000 words or less, inform us how your “distance traveled” has contributed to where you are today and how the APP Leadership course will help propel you to reach your next goals.
Email your submission as an attached Word document to APPLeadershipCourse@pitt.edu by the end of the day on Tuesday, January 3, 2023.
For More Information
Please contact Amy Haller, MPAS, PA-C, MBA, director for the UPMC Center for Advanced Practice Education and the co-director of the APP Leadership Course, at alh272@pitt.edu.
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Written by:
Amy Haller, MPAS, PA-C, MBA
Co-Director of the Advanced Practice Provider Leadership Certificate Course
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Physician Assistant Studies
Director, UPMC Center for Advanced Practice Education