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Author Spotlight: Improving Radiation Therapy Access with Radiation Planning Assistant
Published on: October 6, 2023
Reflecting on the PA profession's 50th anniversary
Reamer L Bushardt1, Ruth Ballweg
1Reamer L. Bushardt is senior associate dean for health sciences and professor of PA Studies at the George Washington University in Washington, D.C., a clinical, translational scientist in the Children's National Health System in Washington, D.C., and editor-in-chief of JAAPA. Ruth Ballweg is the historian of the Physician Assistant History Society and former director of the MEDEX Northwest PA program at the University of Washington in Seattle, Wash.
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