ARTHUR A.

PANIAGUA PA-C

**** ****** **. ****** ****,

NV 89701

acwqs9@r.postjobfree.com

530-***-****

CAREER SUMMARY

Seasoned Family Practice PA comfortable managing patients of all ages with chronic co-morbidities including insulin and non-insulin dependent diabetes, thyroid disease, coronary artery disease, COPD, chronic pain, and patients with heavy medication burdens. Good internal medicine and lab interpretation skills, as well as urgent care skills including basic ECG analysis, simple and complex suturing, splinting and casting.

CLINICAL EXPERIENCE

Please Note: 3/2016 - 9/2016

In January of 2016 my father was diagnosed with Stage IV lung cancer. In March of the same year I left my position at Renown to tend to his affairs and care for my father in the Bay Area of California.

Family Practice PA 9/2015 - 3/2016

Renown Health Fallon, NV

Rural Family Practice Physician Assistant

Correctional Medicine PA 1/2015 - 9/2015

Washoe County Detention Center.

Correctional medicine Physician Assistant in the Washoe County Detention Center infirmary part-time 32 hrs per week. Responsibilities include managing and treating sick call, chronic care, trauma, and patients withdrawing from alcohol, heroin, methamphetamine, and benzodiazepines.

Family Practice PA 4/2012 - 1/2015

Carson Tahoe Physician Clinic, Dayton, Nevada.

Family Medicine PA seeing patients of all ages. Strong communication skills and rapport building skills with patients and families. Able to communicate complex clinical concepts to patients in layperson terms which can establish provider-patient trust rapidly.

Locums Family Practice/Urgent

Care PA

9/2011 - 4/2012

Locum Tenens working various locations in Nevada and California in Family Practice/Urgent Care settings. Successful Locum Tenens assignments require an ability to rapidly adapt to changing work cultures, personalities and of course EMR's.

Family Practice/Urgent Care PA 6/2007 - 9/2011

Carson Valley Rural Health Clinic, Wellington, Nevada. Cradle to grave Family Practice in a medically underserved rural community in northern Nevada. The applicant was the sole on-site provider and 65% of patients were retired blue collar workers, many polypathological requiring certain levels of internal medicine skills. Supervising physician available by phone or e-mail for consultation. Surgical PA - Orthopedics 5/2006 - 6/2007

Tahoe Fracture and Orthopedics, Carson City, Nevada. Surgical PA and First Assist for an orthopedic spine surgeon. Responsibilities included initial evaluation, diagnostics and imaging, and formulating non-surgical treatment plans.

Emergency Room PA 8/2005 - 7/2006

Carson Tahoe Regional Medical Center, Carson City, Nevada.

'Fast Track' ED PA seeing mostly non-critical patients or triage to the main ED.

Family Practice PA 7/2002 - 10/2005

Colusa Indian Health Clinic, Colusa and Arbuckle California. Primary/Urgent Care medicine in a remote central California agricultural community.

Family Practice PA 11/2001 - 5/2002

Peach Tree Medical Clinic, Marysville, California. Primary/Urgent Care in a busy federally qualified underserved community clinic.

RELEVANT SKILL SET

Excellent communication skills across varied ethnic and socioeconomic groups.

Good clinical instincts and internal medicine skills, but know when to punt.

Proficient in basic ECG analysis and interpretation. Proficient in simple and complex wound repair, basic splinting and casting.

Proficient in therapeutic joint aspiration and injection. Proficient in slit lamp, tonometer, and fluorescein exam. Proficient in skin lesion biopsy including shave, punch, and elliptical excision.

Experience in three EHR systems including EPIC, eClinical Works and Allscripts.

Computer literate.

EDUCATION

University of Washington School

of Medicine (MEDEX Northwest)

Seattle, Washington

PA-C Clinical Sciences.

LICENSURE AND CERTIFICATION

Physician Assistant: Nevada State License Number PA932. Physician Assistant: California State License Number PA16153. NCCPA: National License Number 1052330.

Nevada State Board of Pharmacy, Controlled Substance: CS14375. DEA Number MP0751366.

LANGUAGES

English and conversational Spanish.

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