Hello APP Colleagues,
On
Monday, April 7, 2025 from 12:15 PM to 1:00 PM we welcomed Sara
Gussenhoven, MPAS, PA-C who presented:
Surgical Indications for
Endocarditis.
Sara grew
up in a small, rural town on the border of Idaho and Montana, where she was
often outside either camping, fishing, or rafting. Once she graduated high
school, she then became an EMT/firefighter and became passionate about
assisting others. She was driven to seek higher medical training and began
obtaining her bachelor's degree, where she was a teaching assistant for anatomy
and physiology along with cellular and molecular biology. In the summers, Sara
swapped out her rural firefighting days to be a white-water rafting guide
through Glacier National Park.
Sara is a
2024 graduate of Franklin Pierce University’s Physician Assistant program where
she served as class president. Upon graduation, Sara joined the
Cardiothoracic Surgery APP Residency Program where she is due to graduate in
September. While uncertain about her plans after the fellowship, she
states that she hopes that wherever she ends up, she will have the opportunity
to continue learning and developing her skills, just as DHMC has allowed her to
do thus far.
