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Since the Founding of the Veteran Affairs Physician Assistant Association in 1984, there have been fifteen Presidents who have led this Association. Mike Lee and Jim Portt from Augusta Georgia VAMC were the two who first started this endeavor.

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This list is a historical testimony to those who dedicated their lives for a short time to this endeavor. We thank them for their years of service to the Association. We would like to thank the many Officers, Board members and Committee Chairs who also held office in VAPAA.

Without their time and effort (and personal expense) none of this would exist. The Roots Although attempts at a VA PA Association were actually started back in the late 1970's, it never went anywhere.

Originally called the 'Veteran's Administration Physician Assistant Society (VAPAS)', an Ad Hoc Committee was formed in November 1983. According to the minutes of the Ad Hoc Committee, VACO contacts revealed there were '545 PA's nationwide at 108 of the 128 VA Health Care Delivery Stations.' Phone calls were made to other VA Medical Centers and Points of Contact (POCs) were established with PAs at centers where a PA could be found. In December 1983, the eleven members of the Ad Hoc Committee anted-up $25 each to start the association, so mailing, reproduction and supplies could be purchased. By end of December about 100 contacts had been made with POCs. January 1984 the first mailing was sent to the POCs containing a letter of intent from the committee to all PAs to organize the VAPAS.

'We mailed 500 cards to the 100 stations.We started to receive some of the cards late in the month from the field.' In February 1984 cards continued to come in. Of the 159 cards received at that time, all 159 responded with agreement with the concept of a national organization of VA Physician Assistants. On February 10, 1984 the Ad Hoc Committee met and agreed on a draft of the Constitution and By-laws.

The meeting was recessed for one week while they could be set in final print. On February 17, 1984, when the refined documents were completed, they were adopted and officers were elected to serve on an interim basis. Those officers were Mike Lee and Nathanial A. (Nate) Brown from Augusta Georgia VAMC, who were the first President and Vice President; Patrick T. (Pat) Walters was Secretary; and Clarence E. Grier was Treasurer.

At 1:00 pm on 17 February 1984 the first official meeting of the VAPAS was held. It lasted 25 minutes. The treasury had a grand total of $151.00. Carbon Stewart was appointed the Parliamentarian, and Jim Portt was the Public Relations Director. Later that year the VA Practitioner ran an article about the PAs at Augusta VAMC and the VAPAA.

Mike Lee was a very vocal, active member until he retired from the VA in 1995. Jim Portt remained a member of the Board of VAPAA as Military Liaison until 1990 and then moved on to the US Public Health Service. In 1989, VAPAA was chartered as a constituent chapter of the AAPA. Members grew slowly, yet steadily until the mid-1990's, when there was a slight drop off after the passage of the 1993 qualification standards and prescriptive privileges in 1995. App download video. Members who came into the Association up until the end of 1991 were given the distinction of using the title Founding Fellow.

Officers initially held terms of office for two years (in the case of President, that meant six years - two as President-elect, two as President, and finally two as Immediate Past President) and ran from January to December two years later. In 1996 the term for the President was changed to 1 year, in 1999 the term moved from Jan-Dec to Jul-Jun and changed from President-elect to a Vice-President to conform with AAPA requirements. The Early (Foundation Building) Years The First President - Mike Lee (1984 - 88) (4 years) Mike was on active duty in USAF when he returned from SE Asia in 1971. He attended and graduated from the first class of military trained PAs and left the AF to work as a PA in Cardiology at the Augusta, Georgia VAMC. In 1982, he and several other PA's decided that the local (state) constituent chapters of the AAPA just weren't able or interested in helping the federally employed physician assistants. Therefore, in 1983 they founded the VA Physician Assistant Association.