Rate My Professor Anne Walsh

Anne Walsh is Professor and Clinical Faculty in the Physician Assistant Studies Program within Chapman University’s Crean College of Health and Behavioral Sciences. She earned her Master of Medical Science in Physician Assistant Studies with Highest Honors from Nova Southeastern University in 2004, Bachelor of Science in Physician Assistant Practice cum laude from the University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine in 2000, Bachelor of Science in Cytotechnology from the University of Kansas Medical Center in 1989, and Bachelor of Arts in Biological Sciences from the University of Missouri in 1988. Walsh began her professional career as a cytotechnologist at the University of California, Irvine for nearly a decade. Her clinical practice has focused on family medicine and gastroenterology, during which she precepted dozens of physician assistant and medical students and mentored pre-PA shadow students. In 2003, she joined USC Keck School of Medicine as faculty in the Department of Family Medicine, teaching medical students in the Family Medicine Clerkship and guest lecturing in clinical skills and gastroenterology for PA students. She served as Interim Program Director of the Primary Care PA Program from 2010 to 2011 and continued as part-time PA faculty until 2018.

Since 2018 at Chapman University, Walsh directs courses in Gastroenterology/Nutrition, Hematology, Infectious Disease/Immunology, History and Physical Diagnosis, and PA Professional Practice, while facilitating clinical skills workshops, interprofessional education activities, emergency medicine simulations, and coaching the Student Challenge Bowl team. She chairs the Student Progress Committee and acted as Interim Director of Admissions in 2021. Walsh was honored as a Distinguished Fellow of the American Academy of Physician Assistants in 2014 and inducted into the Pi Alpha Physician Assistant Honor Society in 2015 and 2018. She serves as peer reviewer for the Journal of the American Academy of Physician Assistants, Annals of Family Medicine, and Journal of Physician Assistant Education, and holds positions including Director at Large for the California Academy of Physician Assistants, PAEA Liaison to the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine, PAEA Grants and Scholarships Review Committee member, and NCCPA exam item writer and PA Ambassador. Her publications include co-editing Patient Assessment in Pharmacy (McGraw-Hill, 2025), chapters in Lange PA Clinical Rotation and PANCE Review (McGraw-Hill, 2025) and 101 Primary Care Case Studies (Springer, 2020 and 2025), and articles such as 'The effect of interprofessional simulations on pharmacy and physician assistant students’ learning of advanced cardiac life support concepts' (Currents in Pharmacy Teaching and Learning, 2023). Her research contributions emphasize interprofessional education and team-based care in physician assistant training, with highly cited works like 'What and how do students learn in an interprofessional student-run clinic? An educational framework for team-based care' (2016).