James F. Cawley, MPH, PA-C, DHL (hon)

James F. Cawley, MPH, PA-C Emeritus, DHL (hon) is Professor and Scholar-in-Residence at the Physician Assistant Leadership and Learning Academy (PALLA) in the Graduate School at the University of Maryland, Baltimore. He is also Professor of PA Practice in the College of Medicine at the Florida State University. Cawley taught and conducted research on the PA profession for nearly 40 years at The George Washington University Physician Assistant Program where he founded the PA/MPH Program and remains Professor Emeritus and past Chair of the Department of Prevention and Community Health in the Milken Institute School of Public Health. Following his graduation from the Touro College PA Program in 1974, he began his career as a primary care PA at The Johns Hopkins Hospital, earned an MPH degree in epidemiology from the Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and pursued doctoral study in health policy at The George Washington University. In 2013, he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree by the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine. Cawley has also held appointments on the PA faculty at Johns Hopkins, Stony Brook University, and Yale University School of Medicine. Cawley has co-authored five books on PAs with more than 180 peer-reviewed publications on the PA profession and health workforce policy. He is a past President of the Physician Assistant Education Association, was past Chair of the Government Relations Committee, served on the JPAE Editorial Board, was twice a President of the PA Foundation, and has served as a Senior Research Fellow at the American Academy of Physician Assistants. In 2011 received the prestigious Eugene A. Stead Award of Achievement from the AAPA.