Ashley Valcin

Physician Assistant with exceptional diagnostic skills and clinical acumen. Looking for a new opportunity for growth in a full time position. Compassionate healthcare provider and excellent problem solver. Self-starter and proficient multitasker.

• Women's Health, Dean Pollack, MD, Elizabeth Gruzek, PA-C, 04/23/07, 05/25/07, First or second assist, subcuticular and subcutaneous closure, op notes, progress notes, performed deliveries, obtained histories for annual and problem visits, women's health exams, patient education.
• Family Practice, James Tatum, MD, Mike Tatko, PA-C, 03/19/07, 04/19/07, Tri-State Medical Group H&Ps, SOAP notes, venipuncture, evaluated laboratory and diagnostic tests, preventative health and patient education.
• Pediatric Transplant, Tamara Fazzalore, PA-C, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, 02/05/07, 03/08/07, H&Ps, consults, suture and staple removal, wound care, evaluated laboratory and diagnostic tests.
• Psychiatry, Dale Adair, MD, Jonathan Bear, MD PhD, Mayview State Hospital, 01/03/07, 02/01/07, Admission evaluations. Assisted with group therapy, medication adjustments, and treatment team. Assisted in new patient consults and ECT therapy at St.Clair Hospital.
• Emergency Medicine, Ganapathi Rao Moka, MD, Albert Doyle, MD, Luigi Forcello, MD, Aliquippa Community Hospital, 11/20/06, 12/20/06, H&Ps, diagnosis and treatment plans, suturing, wound care, splinting, X-ray interpretation
• Ghana, Africa, Dwain Illman, MD, 10/26/06, 11/13/06, Assisted with the assembly of medical clinics in villages, performed H&P's, diagnosis and treatment plans.
• Internal Medicine, Frank Kush, MD & Associates, North Suburban Family Health Center, 09/11/06, 10/12/06, Performed H&Ps, SOAP notes, diagnosis and treatment plans, evaluated laboratory and diagnostic tests, preventative health and patient education.
• Pediatrics, Sarah Springer, MD, Todd Wolynn, MD, Pediatric Alliance, Southwest Division, 08/07/06, 09/07/06, Performed newborn, infant, child, and adolescent H&Ps, SOAP
• General Surgery, Memorial Medical Center, 07/05/06, 08/03/06, First or second assist, subcuticular and subcutaneous closure, daily progress notes, post-op physicals.
• Orthopedics, John Michalski, MD, Mickalski Orthopedic Center, 06/05/06, 06/29/06, First assist, H&Ps, suture and staple removal, casting, splinting, and joint injections.

• Guest Faculty, 12/2013, present, University Of Pittsburgh Physician Assistant Program, Evaluating PA students skills through patient cases, evaluating oral presentations.
• Pulmonology and Sleep Medicine Physician Assistant, 07/2013, present, Lung Associates & Sleep Center of Greater Pittsburgh, H&Ps, follow up, annual and new patient visits, physical exam, treatment plan and patient education. Also obtaining data from positive pressure airway machine and adjusting setting if needed.
• Family Practice/Primary Care Physician Assistant, 02/2011, 06/2013, Cornerstone Care Greensboro, PA, H&Ps, sick visits, well child care, complete physicals, suture, wound I&D, cryotherapy, evaluate and interpret laboratory and diagnostic tests, preventative health and patient education.
• Family Practice/Primary Care Physician Assistant, 11/2008, 01/2011, Bladen Medical Associates Elizabethtown, NC, H&Ps, sick visits, well child care, complete physicals, suture, wound I&D, cryotherapy, evaluate laboratory and diagnostic tests, preventative health and patient education.
• Neurosurgical Physician Assistant, 09/2007, 10/10/2008, Allegheny General Hospital Pittsburgh, PA, Perform H&Ps, daily in-house patient care, daily rounds with MDs, dictate discharge summaries. Procedures including removing lumbar, hemovac and Jackson Pratt drains, lumbar punctures, baclofen pump refills, suturing, program VP shunts, access shunts. No OR.
• Supplemental Instructor, 08/2004, Chatham University Biology Department, Assist professor by creating study documents and holding directed study groups for biology students
• Patient Care Technician, 09/2002, 01/2006, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, Obtain vital signs, assist patients with ADL and hygiene, venipuncture, straight cath.
• Child Care Assistant, 05/2002, 08/2002, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, Nursing internship. Start IVs, dispense medications, documentation, place foley catheters.

• Basic Life Support, American Heart Association, 06/2022 to 06/2024
• Advanced Cardiac Life Support, American Heart Association, 12/2023 to 12/2025

• Pennsylvania Society of Physician Assistants, 2023
• American Academy of Physician Assistants, 2023

• Basic Life Support (BLS) - June 2022 to June 2024
• Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) - December 2024 to December 2026