Event

Physician Assistant Studies Alumni Reunion

June 5, 2024
6:00 PM – 9:00 PM

NYIT de Seversky Mansion
Long Island, NY

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We hope you are able to join us at the Inaugural Physician Assistant Studies Alumni Reunion on Wednesday, June 5, at NYIT de Seversky Mansion as we celebrate the 25th anniversary of the first graduating class of PAs and honor founding faculty member Frank A. Acevedo with a Lifetime Achievement Award.

This event provides a great opportunity to network, celebrate success, and inspire and support our students. Sponsorship dollars directly benefit the Department of Physician Assistant Studies' mission to provide students with engaging educational experiences that facilitate lifelong learning, enhance diverse perspectives, emphasize inter-professional practice, and foster a spirit of service with a commitment to improving the health of our communities and advancing the PA profession.

If you have any questions, please contact Carol Lane at clane03@nyit.edu or 516.686.4940.

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Individual Tickets
Sponsorship Opportunities

Tickets

Individual Ticket: $125 per person
Fair market value of goods received is $90. Your donation to New York Tech is $35.

Table of 10: $1,250
Fair market value of goods received is $900. Your donation to New York Tech is $350.

Unable to attend? You can still support the Physician Assistant Studies Alumni Scholarship by making a gift online or send a note of congratulations, which will be shared with Professor Acevedo.

2024 Award Recipient

Lifetime Achievement Award

Frank A. Acevedo, PA-C, DFAAPA

Assistant Professor, New York Institute of Technology
Chief Executive Officer, Health Education for Licensed Professionals, LLC

Frank A. Acevedo has been a physician assistant for 32 years, and is a 1983 graduate of the Long Island University/Brooklyn Hospital Physician Assistant Program with a PA Certificate and Bachelors in Community Health.

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He has worked at Lutheran Medical Center (now NYU Langone Lutheran medical Center) in Brooklyn, New York as Director of Surgical PA Services, and spent two years in a private orthopedic practice as the lead PA. Currently, his clinical activities are based at Winthrop University Hospital in Mineola, New York where he is the senior PA in surgical critical care.

Acevedo was recruited to New York Tech in 1998 as one of the founding faculty members and while here has held committee and board positions on the New York State Society of Physician Assistants, the Physician Assistant Education Association (PAEA), New York Institute of Technology, and Winthrop University Hospital. His current PAEA committee appointment has him serving on the end of rotation examination development committee for emergency medicine and surgery. Of note his major academic contributions are the surgical chapter in the AAPA/PAEA PANCE PANRE Review book edited by Zarbock and O’Connell as well as the general surgery and vascular chapter in the Appleton & Lange Q&A for the Physician Assistant Examination edited by Anthony Miller. He has published in the Journal of the American Academy of Physician Assistants as well as Critical Care Medicine (the Journal for the Society of Critical Care Medicine) and has lectured locally, regionally, nationally, and internationally. Current lecture topics of interest include Sepsis in Critical Care, Procalcitonin as a Marker of Sepsis, Musculoskeletal Ultrasound, Point of Care Critical Care Ultrasonography, and Prevention Strategies for Ventilator Associated Pneumonia.

Acevedo describes his teaching style as edutainment, and loves to mix in personal clinical experiences to keep his students engaged.

Sponsorship Tiers

Are you interested in sponsoring this year’s event and providing your support to current and future New York Tech students? Learn more about our sponsorship options:

GOLD SPONSOR - $2,500