Skip to main content
Emory University School of Medicine
Department of Family and Preventive Medicine

PA Program Graduates section navigation

PA Program Graduates

Spotlight on Alumni



Tom Himelick, MMSc, PA-C: Primary Care in Western New Mexico

I graduated in 1991 from the Emory PA Program and worked in ENT / Head and Neck Surgery at Emory, and then in general Pediatrics at Grady Memorial before coming back to the Emory PA Program as faculty in 1994. 

Pictured on far right.

Tom Himelick, MMSc, PA-C: Primary Care in Western New Mexico

Tonia Poteat, PhD, MMSc, PA-C, MPH: Excellence in HIV Care

After years as an AIDS activist and educator, I enrolled in Emory University’s Physician Assistant Program in 1993 so that I could provide direct care to people living with HIV.

Tonia Poteat, PhD, MMSc, PA-C, MPH: Excellence in HIV Care

Jeri Sumitani, MMSc, PA-C: Fighting Ebola on the Front Lines

When the Ebola outbreak reached a critical point in the summer of 2014, I asked to volunteer in West Africa. I ended up working at Connaught Hospital, the sole facility in Freetown to keep its doors open to Ebola and non-Ebola patients.

Jeri Sumitani

Jasmina Salcinovic-Spahic, DMSc, MMSc, MHA, PA-C, DFAAPA

Dr. Jasmina Salcinovic-Spahic was inspired to become a healthcare professional by her childhood in Bosnia before and during the war. She chose Emory's PA program after learning about the flexibility that being a PA would offer in terms of both specialties and work-life balance.

jasmina-salcinovic-spahic

Diana Culbertston, MMSc, MPA, PA-C: When your Work is your Passion

Diana Culbertson, PA-C, discusses how her international work has become her passion. PA/MPH student Conor Cahalan, class of 2019, interviewed Diana Culbertson for this piece.

Diana Culbertston, MMSc, MPA, PA-C: When your Work is your Passion