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Robert M. Blumm is an adjunct instructor of surgery and emergency medicine at Hofstra University School of Medicine on Long Island, New York, and has worked with Dr. Gerald Acker, a plastic surgeon on Long Island, since 1970.

Mr. Blumm has received national recognition as a distinguished fellow of the American Academy of Physician Assistants (AAPA). Mr. Blumm is the president of the Association of Plastic Surgery Physician Assistants, and was past-president of the American Association of Surgical Physician Assistants, and chairman of the Surgical Congress of the AAPA. In addition, Mr. Blumm received the John Kirklin MD Award for Professional Excellence from the American Association of Surgeon's Assistants. Along with his associate, Dr. Acker, Mr. Blumm was the first recipient of the AAPA PAragon Physician-PA Partnership Award.