Hawai'i Pacific University Physician Assistant Program

10/11/2026

10/07/2026

PAs advocate for patients everywhere from bedside to community events to Capitol Hill! Mahalo to every PA and PA student using their voice to speak up for their patients.

10/06/2026

PAs practice in every setting, everywhere, including here in Hawai‘i! From ERs and ORs to primary care and beyond, it all comes back to mālama: caring for our patients and communities.

10/05/2026

Did you know that PAs interact with 12 million patients every week? That’s more than 620 million per year! That’s why we celebrate this week.

10/05/2026

HPU PA students from the class of 2026 who are on their clinical rotations in Guam met up with a newly admitted student for the class of 2028 who is from Guam today!

10/02/2026

PA Week is almost here! From October 6-12, we celebrate the Physician Assistant profession and the PAs who show up every day for their patients and communities. Here in Hawaiʻi, PAs are expanding access to care across our islands, and we’re proud to be educating the next generation of PAs to serve with Aloha, Pono, Kuleana, Mālama, and Lōkahi.

09/19/2026

Check out what our students are enjoying most about their clinical rotations! 🩺💙

It’s clear that their patients are at the heart of why they chose the path to becoming a PA. We’re so proud to see them putting their knowledge into practice and building meaningful connections with the patients they serve!

09/17/2026

HPU PA students attended the Hawai’i Health Work Force Summit this past weekend. The opening key note address was from Dr Atul Gawande. A phrase from his talk lingers, “deploy your capability”. The HPU PA Program is working to build capacity and extend access to care by deploying the capability of highly educated and trained PA graduates. Just three months before we graduate our first cohort!
Go Sharks! 🦈 HPU Grad Hawaii Pacific University

09/15/2026

Happy Monday!!! To start off our week we have another student intro post… meet Taylor Chung!! ✨

Taylor is known for her hard work ethic and her karate skills! Her classmates compliment her on her dedication and organized approach to both school and her extracurricular activities 📚

08/03/2026

The HPU Program hybrid program was built to ensure that the mission to serve Hawai’i means that we serve all islands and allow students to stay on their home island with low residency requirements during the didactic year in Honolulu. Once a semester students come to campus for two week lab immersions. Immersions are a time when knowledge becomes muscle memory, clinical technical skills are fine tuned and classmates bond.

To the incredible Class of 2027, your focus, resilience, hard work, and support for one another during our last immersion did not go unnoticed. You showed up ready to work and we are so proud of you and all you accomplished!

To the faculty and staff, mahalo piha for pouring your time, expertise and energy into making the lab immersions meaningful and impactful! None of this happens without you!

Proud feels way too small a word for how I feel about this magnificent program, students, and the faculty/staff team! It is truly living the dream to bring this program to serve our beautiful and unique community ‘ohana.

Aloha, Dr. Conlon, proud Porgram Director 💙