James Van Rhee PA-C is the program director and associate professor of the physician assistant program at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University in Chicago. He is also a tenured professor and former chairperson of the Wake Forest University physician assistant program in Winston Salem North Carolina. He is the commissioner of the accreditation review commission on education for physician assistants. Dr. Van Rhee is also a distinguished fellow at the American Academy of Physician Assistants. He lectures and writes extensively on a variety of health topics and issues related to educating physician assistants.