Justine Strand de Oliveira

Professor Emeritus

Justine Strand de Oliveira is a physician assistant and educator who has worked in the US, Rio de Janeiro, Mozambique and London. She is former head of the Duke PA Program, and has practiced clinically both nationally and internationally. A graduate of the Duke Physician Assistant Program, she earned the Doctor of Public Health degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She lives with her husband and their two rescue dogs in the Algarve, Portugal. She retired from clinical practice in 2019, but continues to teach part time as an invited professor at the University of Algarve medical school. Her new career is writing fiction, and her first novel, The Moon Is Backwards, will be released in July.