Melissa
Hawkins-Goldizen,
PA-C
Assistant Professor/Clinical Coordinator
Gannon University
Melissa is a dedicated Physician Assistant with over a decade of clinical experience specializing in wound care and limb salvage surgery. Throughout ten years of practice, Melissa has been committed to improving patient outcomes through advanced wound management and surgical interventions. In the past four years, she]has transitioned into academia, serving as a professor and clinical coordinator for a Gannon University's Physician Assistant Program in Ruskin, Florida. In this role, Melissa guides future PAs by combining real-world clinical insights with rigorous educational training.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
Background: Physician Assistant, Physical Therapy, and Occupational Therapy students participated in Tone Day: A Collaborative IPE experience, working as interprofessional teams to best manage simulated patients with tone dysfunction. Design: Students dispersed into pre-assigned groups where they collaborated to best manage patient/client cases. Cases provided information on patient/client roles, functions, and goals. Prompts were designed to facilitate collaborative considerations of medical and therapeutic interventions. Results: Student groups again demonstrated improved competencies in…