Faculty
At USP, you’ll benefit from a highly educated faculty who are respected, involved members of the medical community. You’ll gain insight from area practicing physician assistants and shadow PAs and physicians who are experts in the fields of family practice, internal medicine, dermatology, occupational medicine, cardiac surgery, emergency medicine, orthopedics and gynecology.
Pre-Professional Phase Faculty
Janet DeSipio, MSPAS, PA-C
Instructor in Physician Assistant Studies
Director, Physician Assistant Studies, Pre-Professional Phase
j.desipi@usp.edu | 215.596.8675
A board-certified Physician Assistant with a master’s degree in PA studies, Ms. DeSipio acts as a didactic and clinical instructor as well as advisor to PA students. She practices dermatology in Philadelphia and allows students to shadow her.She is also an active member and lecturer for the Pennsylvania Society of Physician Assistants.
Adeboye Adejare, PhD
Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Chair, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
a.adejar@usp.edu | 215.596.8944
Dr. Adejare teaches PA students coursework in pharmacology. He is deeply interested in drug discovery. USP recently filed a provisional patent application for his work to develop a drug for Alzheimer’s through NMDA receptors.
William Law, PhD
Professor of Biology
Chair, Department of Biological Sciences
w.law@usp.edu | 215.596.8919
Dr. Law teaches PA students coursework in anatomy and physiology. In the lab he is exploring how a balance between enzymatic and allosteric (non-enzymatic) influences of adenosine deaminase on adenosine actions can play a role in regulating macrophage and cardiac cytokine signaling. This has implications in such diverse arenas as sepsis, ischemic and non-ischemic heart failure, and diabetes.
James McKee, PhD
Associate Professor of Chemistry
j.mckee@usp.edu | 215.596.8847
Dr. McKee teaches PA students coursework in organic chemistry. His current research involves developing methods of preparing difluorochloroketone and alcohols for use in heterocyclic ring synthesis. He is also the author of textbooks in biochemistry and organic laboratory techniques.
Trudy McKee, PhD
Dr. McKee teaches PA students coursework in biochemistry.
Margaret Reinhardt, MMA
Instructor in Biology
Director, Medical Technology Program
m.reinha@usp.edu | 215.596.8797
Ms. Reinhardt teaches PA student coursework in immunology and hematology. She has taught clinical immunology, human parasitology, hematology, microbiology and introductory biology, has nationally published and presented, and serves on several clinical boards. Her research interests include invertebrate immune responses and reactions of earthworm coelomocytes to both naturally occurring and induced parasite infections.
Robert Smith, MS
Distinguished Assistant Professor of Biology
r.smith@usp.edu | 215.596.8918
Mr. Smith teaches PA students coursework in microbiology. He is widely published and has presented nationally. His research interests have centered on plant tissue culture as a means of secondary metabolite production and developing models for organogenesis and embryogenesis in plant tissue culture.
Professional Phase Faculty
For information about faculty in the professional phase of the PA program, please see the PCOM website.