Elizabeth Roessler

With more than 24 years experience as a clinical PA, Liz joined the Yale Physician Associate Program as the Academic Coordinator in 2013. Her interests are improving access to health care in the medically underserved, a path that has led her to practice mainly in the primary care setting. She currently serves as the co-medical director of HAVEN, a free clinic supported and run by the student from the YSM, YSN and the Yale Physician Associate Program. She also volunteers as an attending at this clinic.  Her pedogogical interests include the development of professionalism, social justice and LBGT health disparities. Locally she is the Connecticut Association of PA Board representative at HAVEN (Health Assistance InterVention Education Network), and nationally she is a PAEA Governance and Ethics Board Member and a peer-reviewer for the Journal of the American Academy of Physician Assistants.