PA Medicine Directory

John G. McGinnity, MS, PA-C, is the founding Director of the PA Medicine Program and Professor at Michigan State University, College of Osteopathic Medicine, in East Lansing, Michigan. He has developed a team-based program, training PAs alongside medical students to improve access to care for Michigan citizens. Mr. McGinnity has 25+ years of experience as a PA and has an extensive background in cardiovascular medicine. Prior to joining MSU Mr. McGinnity served in various leadership roles at ...

Scott A Carlson DO MPH is the current Medical Director and Associate Professor in the MSU-College of Osteopathic Medicine, Department of Physician Assistant medicine.  He is a 1982 graduate of MSU-COM and is Board Certified in General Practice.  His career spanned thirty-seven years in a private independent practice in Grand Rapids Michigan.  In addition to serving patients, he mentored students from MSU-COM as an Associate Professor in the Department of Family Medicine, and he mentored PA ...

Heather Trudeau is an Assistant Professor and Pre-Clinical Coordinator of the Michigan State University PA Program. She is the former Director of Admissions and Assistant Professor at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock, where she also worked in family practice and was a preceptor at a student-led interprofessional free health clinic. Heather is a member of the American Academy of PAs, the Michigan Academy of PAs, the PA Education Association, and the Arkansas ...

Dr. Ashley Malliett, DMSc, MPAS, PA-C is the clinical coordinator and principal faculty at Michigan State University, College of Osteopathic Medicine in East Lansing, Michigan. Dr. Malliett has an extensive background in cardiovascular medicine, specializing in Advanced Heart Failure, Mechanical Circulatory Support, (MCS), and Cardiac Transplant.

Bruce Dobey is an Assistant Professor and the Assessment & Evaluation Coordinator with the Michigan State University PA Program. Professor Dobey joins the Michigan State University PA Program following five years of service to his professional school alma mater, the University of Oklahoma Physician Associate Program, as an Assistant Professor, the Director for Evaluation & Assessment.

Allen J. Greenway, MS, PA-C is the Clinical Coordinator and an Assistant Professor in the Department of PA Medicine. He earned his master’s degree in physician assistant studies from Wayne State University in 2016. He has worked in family practice and spent the previous 5 years as a PA with the neurosurgery team at Ascension St John Hospital in Detroit MI.

Daniel L. Richardson, DO, FACEP, is Co-Clinical Coordinator of the PA Medicine Program and Associate Professor at Michigan State University, College of Osteopathic Medicine, in East Lansing, Michigan. Dr. Richardson has over thirty years experience as an Emergency Physician in suburban Detroit serving as the Associate Residency Director of the Emergency Medicine Residency Program at Beaumont Hospital, in Farmington Hills, Michigan.

Adam Storts, MS, PA-C is an Assistant Professor in the Michigan State University PA Medicine Program. His clinical background is in Emergency Medicine with a subspecialty focus in Vascular Access. He has experience in insertion of novel vascular access devices and helped to develop an interprofessional outpatient referral program for patients with opioid use disorder across the healthcare system.

Erin Wilson, MS, PA-C, is an Assistant Professor and Principal Faculty with the Michigan State University PA Program. She earned her master’s degree in physician assistant studies in 2014 from Jefferson College of Health Sciences in Roanoke, VA. Professor Wilson has an extensive background in cardiology, with a focus on Structural Heart Medicine.

Stephanie Jalaba is an Assistant Professor and Principal Faculty in the Michigan State University PA Program. Stephanie recently relocated to Michigan, where she was born and raised, after spending several years in Arizona. Her clinical background is in hospital medicine. After graduating from Midwestern University’s PA Program, she then completed a post-graduate fellowship in Hospital Internal Medicine at Mayo Clinic in Phoenix, Arizona. Stephanie then worked as a Hospital Internal Medicine ...

Samantha Danek, MHSA, M.S., PA-C, currently serves as an Assistant Professor in the Michigan State University PA Program. A proud graduate of the Wayne State University PA program in 2009, Samantha brings a rich clinical background in Surgery and Public Health to her teaching role.