Grace Landel, M.Ed., PA-C

Professor Emeritus

Grace Landel, M.Ed., PA-C was awarded the PAEA Lifetime Achievement Award in 2021.
She graduated from the Baylor College of Medicine Physician Assistant Program in 1984. She has worked in rural and urban family medicine since then as well as being in PA education since 1990. She received her MEd in Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at the University of Washington in 1999.

Ms. Landel was on faculty at the University of Washington MEDEX NW PA Program for 20 years, serving in many roles including Associate Program Director, Director of Diversity, Director of the Alaska Satellite, Didactic Coordinator, and Clinical Coordinator. She joined the Touro University California Joint MSPAS/MPH Program as Director in 2010. She stepped down in August 2021 and is continuing to teach and work on interprofessional education at the university level.

Ms. Landel has been active on the state and national level including legislative committee chair for the Nebraska Academy of PAs and director-at-large, vice president and president of the Washington Academy of PAs. For the American Academy of Physician Assistants, she was the chair of the Professional Practice Council and served as the liaison to the American Academy of Family Physicians. She served as a Commissioner and the Chair and Past Chair for the Accreditation Review Commission on Education for the Physician Assistant and still is a site visitor. For Physician Assistant Education Association, she was a member of the Advisory Council on Minority Attrition/Retention and the Minority Affairs Committee. She served as chair of the National Recruitment Strategies Task Force and currently serves as a peer reviewer for the Journal of Physician Assistant Education. She was a 2001 HRSA Bureau of Health Professions Primary Care Health Policy Fellow where her group policy proposal was on the inclusion of oral health in primary care.

Ms. Landel is interested in issues around social justice, diversity and access to care, recruitment of students from rural and under-resourced backgrounds, primary care training, oral health, service learning and interprofessional education.