Program
Barriers and Facilitating Factors to Integration of First UK-trained PA onto a Secondary Care Service in the British NHS - Tamara S. Ritsema, PhD, MPH, PA-C/R
November 13, 2022 from 12:00pm EDT to 12:50pm EDT
Speakers / Panelists
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PA / NP Productivity in Emergency Department: A National Study - Tamara S. Ritsema, PhD, MPH, PA-C/R
November 12, 2022 from 11:30am EDT to 12:20pm EDT -
Diagnostic Testing and Admissions Decisions in Chest and Abdominal Pain - Tamara S. Ritsema, PhD, MPH, PA-C/R
November 13, 2022 from 9:00am EDT to 9:50am EDT -
Barriers and Facilitating Factors to Integration of First UK-trained PA onto a Secondary Care Service in the British NHS - Tamara S. Ritsema, PhD, MPH, PA-C/R
November 13, 2022 from 12:00pm EDT to 12:50pm EDT
Tamara S. Ritsema, PhD, MPH, PA-C/R
Associate Professor
Tamara S. Ritsema, PhD, MPH, PA-C/R
Dr. Tami Ritsema (RITZ-ma) is Associate Professor at the George Washington University and St. George’s, University of London PA programs. She is an active health workforce researcher with a specific focus on the development of the PA profession outside the United States. She also conducts workforce research on the deployment of PAs in Emergency Medicine within the US.
Dr. Ritsema has held several national and international PA leadership roles including being the Director of Research for the Faculty of Physician Associates at the Royal College of Physicians, London. She is currently the chair of the Grants Committee for the Physician Assistant Education Association and has served on the PAEA Research Committee and the Editorial Board of the Journal of Physician Assistant Education. She is the editor-in-chief of Ballweg’s Physician Assistant: a guide to clinical practice, 7th edition, which is the most commonly used PA textbook in the United States.
Dr. Ritsema is a regular speaker at national and international PA conferences. She is very excited to be here with Canadian colleagues today