Kathleen Roche Appointed Chairperson, NE Consortium of PA Programs

– Kathleen Roche, MPA, RPA-C, FNP, Director, Physician Assistant Program

Kathleen Roche, MPA, RPA-C, FNP, Director of the Physician Assistant (PA) program, was appointed for a one-year term as Chairperson for the Northeast Consortium of PA Programs at the Physician Assistant Educational Association (PAEA) conference in Tucson in October 2007.

In this capacity, Roche is responsible for the consortium meetings of all PA programs from Maine to New Jersey. She will be organizing and planning committee meetings on various topics for the programs which include curriculum, public policies, administrative issues and ARC-PA (Accreditation Review Commission on Education for the Physician Assistant) standards.