Press Release: BU Faculty to Serve on Accreditation Review Commission on Education for the Physician Assistant Board
(Boston)—Aliza Stern, MMSc, PA-C, director of didactic education for the Physician Assistant Program at Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, has been selected to serve on the Reconsideration Panel of the Accreditation Review Commission on Education for the Physician Assistant (ARC-PA). The panel reviews programs that wish to appeal adverse accreditation actions and is a voluntary national service to the PA profession.
Stern, who joined the BU community in 2016, serves as chair of the didactic curriculum committee and is a member of the clinical, executive and data committees for the program as well as an assistant professor of dermatology. She provides care to patients with a wide variety of dermatologic needs at Boston Medical Center.
Stern received her undergraduate degree from Lehigh University and her MMSc from Yale University School of Medicine.
The ARC-PA is the accrediting agency that protects the interests of the public and PA profession by defining the standards for PA education and evaluating PA educational programs within the territorial United States to ensure their compliance with those standards.