Tom BalgaTom Balga, an adjunct professor in Yale University鈥檚 PA program, has joined the faculty of the Katz School鈥檚 Physician Assistant Studies program.
A physician assistant for 22 years, Balga is an experienced clinician in emergency medicine, pediatrics, sports medicine and surgery, as well as in developing and implementing simulation laboratories for emergency medicine clinicians.
In addition, he has worked in quality improvement and quality assurance in hospital settings. This summer, Balga's chapter, 鈥淎buse: Child, Domestic, Elder, Sexual Assault,鈥 was published by Springer in the textbook Clinical Medicine for Physician Assistants.
He also was a contributing author last summer to the Academic Emergency Medicine Journal with the article 鈥淐onsultation for Injuries Potentially Due to Child Abuse in Community Emergency Departments.鈥
Since 2019, Balga has been a member of the PA program advisory committee. He will teach courses in Pediatrics; Diagnostic Methods; and Professionalism, Policy and Practice.
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