James F. Cawley is a professor of health care science and director of the PA/MPH program in the School of Medicine and Health Science at The George Washington University. He is also a Professor of Prevention and Community Health in the School of Public Health and Health Services at GWU. He has been in PA education for 34 years and has served on the faculty of the PA programs at The Johns Hopkins University, Yale University, and Stony Brook University. He has published extensively on aspects of the health work force. Cawley has authored more than 75 peer-reviewed papers in the biomedical literature on topics spanning the PA profession, the health workforce, preventive medicine, health promotion, and epidemiology. He is the author of Physician Assistants: Practice and Policy (FA Davis, 2009).