Maria
Keelon,
MS, PA-C
Associate Professor, School and Program Director, School of Physician Assistant Studies
Eastern Michigan University
Maria Keelon graduated in 2002 from Wayne State University’s PA program earning a Master’s Degree in Physician Assistant Studies. She has spent 18 years working as a PA in the Emergency Department of Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, Michigan.
Maria joined the Eastern Michigan University Physician Assistant Program in March of 2015 as an Assistant Professor and Director of Clinical Education. After 5 years of classroom teaching and clinical coordinating at EMU, she assumed the role of Program Director in Feb of 2020 and then as School Director in Sept. of 2023.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
This Lightning Talk will describe how clinical reasoning was applied collaboratively in an interprofessional education (IPE) workshop involving Physician Assistant (PA) and Medical Laboratory Science (MLS) students. The session was designed to help students actively contribute to diagnostic decision-making by applying their discipline-specific skills to a shared clinical case. The talk will highlight how structured team-based reasoning, peer teaching, and discipline-specific knowledge contributed to diagnostic accuracy and decision-making. Attendees will gain insight into an interprofessional…