Allied Health Biochemistry is presented to the students enrolled in the Health Sciences Physician Assistant Program (PA Program). This program is more abbreviated than the Medical Curriculum. The Biochemistry component is presented in a more traditional “silo” fashion and occurs in a concentrated curriculum over three weeks. However, the biochemistry content is focused on specific areas of general cellular and molecular biochemistry that are considered to be essential to the practice of medicine by Physician Assistants.
Focus areas include gene expression, protein structure-function, metabolic regulation, hematology, cholesterol metabolism, and lipoprotein function, vitamins and minerals, and nutrition and body weight homeostasis. Physiology, Pharmacology, and Anatomy are also handled in a similar mini “silo” fashion within the PA program.
This course is only available to students enrolled in the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences PA Program.
Dr. Mark Elliott, Ph.D.
Director and Associate Professor
Dr. Manjari Dimri, M.D., M.A. Ed. & H.D.
Associate Professor