Candidate for Representative to AAPA House of Delegates
Endorsed by the Nomination & Elections Committee
Biography
Nick Patino, PA-C has been a proponent for PAs since PA-school, joining ConnAPA as a PA student and attending board meetings. He remained involved right after graduation and was elected to the board of directors as a director at large. On the board, he has served as the student engagement chair and communications chair, has worked to bring back PA-Student Day and expand the social media presence for ConnAPA. He was elected to the position of treasurer in 2023 and remains in that role now. He was elected a delegate to the for AAPA 2024 and hopes to continue to represent CT PAs in 2025. Clinically he works as a hospitalist PA at Yale New Haven hospital and serves on various committees there as well.
Platform Statement
I am grateful and proud of the work that has been done to ensure PAs get to practice high level medicine, and aware that there is still more work to be done. I believe there are two main areas of continued improvement: public view and awareness of the PA & legislative efforts. It is imperative that we as a profession continue to make advancements in both these areas if we want PAs to remain an important and vital force in the healthcare field and grow. I think the name change was a vital move for the profession to be correctly perceived in the public eye, but the next ten years of official implementation and unification of the new name will be critical to our success as a profession. I am happy that in Connecticut we are pushing for this already on the state level. It is an exciting time to be a PA, especially an early career PA, but it is also a time to the AAPA to be vigilant in its opinions which represent PAs as a whole. I would be honored to serve as the HOD delegate again and continue to represent CT in this crucial time.