Faculty Bio Detail
Shelby Edwards - PA-C
Assistant Professor
Physician Assistant
Email: sedwards@samuelmerritt.edu
Program:Master of Physician Assistant (MPA)
Telephone: 510.869.6511
Address: 370 Hawthorne Avenue
Oakland - CA 94609
Shelby joined the faculty in 2005 and is core faculty in the physician assistant department. She has been an educator since 1998 and still works in clinical practice as a physician assistant. She works clinically in private private practice Orthopaedic Surgery as well as Emergency Medicine.
Courses Taught at Samuel Merritt University:
PA Medicine- guest lecturer
PA Physical Diagnosis- lab instructor
PA Diagnostic Methods- EKG instructor of record
PA Surgery- instructor of record
PA clinical year- evaluation coordinator and assistant clinical coordinator
Physical Therapy- Disease and Dysfunction 2 & 3- guest lecturer
Nurse Practitioner program- EKG guest lecturer
Research Interests:
Pediatric orthopaedics and fracture management
Publications and Presentations:
California Academy of Physician Assistants- speaker "Pediatric Orthopaedics in Primary Care"
Phizer- speaker "ACC Guidelines on Anticoagulation," "Management of Back Pain"
Du Pont Pharma- speaker "Current Guidelines on oral anticoagulation in 2000"
Bristol-Meyers-Squibb- speaker "Current Guidelines on oral anticoagulation in 2001" also in 2002, 2003, 2004
Professional and Community Service and Professional Memberships:
California Academy of Physician Assistants- CME committee and speaker
American Academy of Physician Assistants
Physician Assistants in Orthopaedic Surgery
Physician Assistant Education Association
San Francisco Bay Area Physician Assistants- steering committee member and webmaster
Assistant Professor
Physician Assistant
Email: sedwards@samuelmerritt.edu
Program:Master of Physician Assistant (MPA)
Telephone: 510.869.6511
Address: 370 Hawthorne Avenue
Oakland - CA 94609
Shelby joined the faculty in 2005 and is core faculty in the physician assistant department. She has been an educator since 1998 and still works in clinical practice as a physician assistant. She works clinically in private private practice Orthopaedic Surgery as well as Emergency Medicine.
Courses Taught at Samuel Merritt University:
PA Medicine- guest lecturer
PA Physical Diagnosis- lab instructor
PA Diagnostic Methods- EKG instructor of record
PA Surgery- instructor of record
PA clinical year- evaluation coordinator and assistant clinical coordinator
Physical Therapy- Disease and Dysfunction 2 & 3- guest lecturer
Nurse Practitioner program- EKG guest lecturer
Research Interests:
Pediatric orthopaedics and fracture management
Publications and Presentations:
California Academy of Physician Assistants- speaker "Pediatric Orthopaedics in Primary Care"
Phizer- speaker "ACC Guidelines on Anticoagulation," "Management of Back Pain"
Du Pont Pharma- speaker "Current Guidelines on oral anticoagulation in 2000"
Bristol-Meyers-Squibb- speaker "Current Guidelines on oral anticoagulation in 2001" also in 2002, 2003, 2004
Professional and Community Service and Professional Memberships:
California Academy of Physician Assistants- CME committee and speaker
American Academy of Physician Assistants
Physician Assistants in Orthopaedic Surgery
Physician Assistant Education Association
San Francisco Bay Area Physician Assistants- steering committee member and webmaster