Elizabeth Roessler, MMSc, PA-C

With more than 30 years experience as a clinical PA, Liz is the Co-Director of Didactic Education for the Yale Physician Associate Program. In August 2013 sh joined the Yale Physician Associate Program as the Director of Didactic Education. Starting November 2022 she became the interim Director of the PA Online Program and in May 2023 she was named the permanent Director and remained in this position until the program closed September 30, 2026. Her clinical interests include improving access to health care in the medically underserved, a path that has led her to practice mainly in the primary care setting. Liz currently serves as a co-medical director of HAVEN, a free clinic supported and run by the student from the YSM, YSN and the Yale Physician Associate Program and is also a volunteer attending at this clinic. Her pedagogical interests include the development of clinical reasoning, development of professionalism, social determinants of health and LBGTI+ health disparities. At Yale School of Medicine, she is an Affiliated Faculty in the Program in Addiction Medicine. Additionally she is the ConnAPA Board representative at HAVEN (Health Assistance InterVention Education Network), and nationally she serves as a facilitator for the Physician Assistant Education Association Faculty Skills workshops. Main responsibilities as Co-Director of Didactic Education are:

• Providing guidance and leadership for the academic and clinical curriculum
• Maintaining accreditation standards
• Member Education, Policy, and Curriculum Committee
• Member, Progress and Promotion; Admissions; Education, Policy, and Curriculum; and Program Assessment committees
• Advising and mentoring Physician Associate students
• Member, YSM Diversity Committee