Charity Ramsey Irizarry, DPA, MCMSc, PA-C

Biography

PA Ramsey Irizarry is a nationally certified physician assistant with over 20 years of clinical experience with a concentration in Internal Medicine, Women’s Health and Family Medicine. She also has over 20 years of experience in physician assistant education, which includes being the Director of Clinical Education at Barry University overseeing campuses in Miami and St. Petersburg, Florida and in the US Virgin Islands. She was also the founding Program Director of the San Juan Bautista Physician Assistant Program in Caguas, Puerto Rico. Her areas of interest in education include health promotion and disease prevention, clinical skills and reasoning, and academic and professional integrity.

Education

• MCMSc, Barry University. Miami, Florida
• BS, Biological Sciences, Montana State University. Bozeman, Montana.

Recent Presentations

• ePoster Presentation at the AAPA conference in Denver, Colorado titled: A Case Study of a Hurricane Challenge in PA Education; reflecting on the impact of Hurricanes Irma and Maria (2019)
• CME lecture series titled Update on Women’s Health at the Winter and Summer FAPA State Symposiums (2016)

Memberships and Affiliations

• American Academy of Physician Assistants (AAPA)
• Physician Assistant Educators Association (PAEA)
• Academia de Asociado Medico-Puerto Rico (AAMPR)
• PAs for Latino Health (PALH)

Teaching Responsibilities

• MPA 624L Physical Diagnosis Skills Lab 1
• MPA 629L Physical Diagnosis Skills Lab II
• MPA 628 Essential Diagnostic Modalities and Clinical Procedures
• MPA 631 Obstetrics and Gynecology and Women’s Health
• MPA 636 Clinical Skills / Summative Eval
• MPA 673 Clinical Medicine IV (Correlative Medicine)
• MPA 659 Master's Capstone