Deborah A. Conrad, PA-C is a NCCPA dual board-certified Physician Assistant in New York. Deborah has been practicing medicine since 2003 after graduating from Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania where she earned her MHS PA degree. She was vice president of her graduating class. Prior she earned a BS in Medical Technology from the University at Buffalo and worked in a medical laboratory doing diagnostic testing for a hospital system. She was 1 of 8 PA students in the US accepted to the government internship program at the University of Kentucky for specialty training in infectious disease/HIV. She has worked in many facets of medicine but spent most of her career as a hospitalist PA where she also served in leadership as the first Advanced Practice Provider Director of her hospital ultimately achieving medical staff membership and voting rights for PAs and Nurse Practitioners.