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Staff and Leadership

Our people are the heart of our program. Drawing upon our diverse backgrounds in education and health care, our faculty and staff are committed to teaching future generations of physician assistants who will help improve the health of patients and populations with skill and compassion.

Leadership

Palm Beach Atlantic University takes great pride in its outstanding faculty and talented dedicated staff. Our faculty members come from diverse academic, clinical, and administrative backgrounds, bringing a unique and faith-centered perspective to our physician associate education program.

Phil Tobin, DHSc, PA-C

Program Director

Kara Valentine, MMSc, PA-C

Director of Didactic Education 

Jason Yarsley, DO, PharmD

Medical Director

Shawn McPartland, MD, JD

Director of Clinical Education

Principal Faculty

Palm Beach Atlantic University takes great pride in its outstanding faculty and talented, dedicated staff. Our faculty members come from diverse academic, clinical, and administrative backgrounds, bringing a unique and faith-centered perspective to our physician associate education program.

Martin Clinard, MMSc, PA-C

Principal Faculty

Justin Minnerly, PhD

Principal Faculty

Regan Ciceklic, DMSc, PA-C

Principal Faculty

Aaron Bishop, MMSc, PA-C

Principal Faculty

Administrative Staff

Palm Beach Atlantic University takes great pride in its outstanding faculty and talented dedicated staff. Our faculty members come from diverse academic, clinical, and administrative backgrounds, bringing a unique and faith-centered perspective to our physician associate education program.

Susan Grenz

Executive Administrative Assistant

Kimberly Conley, MA Ed.

Program Specialist

Iane Grenz

Curriculum Coordinator

Samantha Ellison

Clinical Coordinator

Aida Castro

Senior Admissions Officer

TBD

Administrative Assistant

Accreditation (A3.12a, D1.02c)

PBA will begin interviewing for the inaugural class in the Spring of 2025, and pending ARC-PA approval, the first class will matriculate on October 1, 2025.

Palm Beach Atlantic University has applied for Accreditation – Provisional from the Accreditation Review Commission on Education for the Physician Assistant (ARC-PA). The PA Program anticipates matriculating its first class in October 2025, pending achieving Accreditation – Provisional status at the June 2025 ARC-PA meeting. Accreditation – Provisional is an accreditation status granted when the plans and resource allocation, if fully implemented as planned, of a proposed program that has not yet enrolled students appear to demonstrate the program’s ability to meet the ARC-PA Standards or when a program holding accreditation-provisional status appears to demonstrate continued progress in complying with the Standards as it prepares for the graduation of the first class (cohort) of students.
In the event that the Palm Beach Atlantic University’s PA Medicine Program does not achieve Accreditation-Provisional status as planned, selected students will not matriculate and will receive a full refund of deposits.