Meet The Treatment Team: Physician Assistant
In this interview, Catherine Judd, MS, PA-C, CAQ-Psy, discusses the role a physician assistant plays in the mental health team. Physician assistants have a broad-base, primary care medical background in medicine.
Catherine Judd currently serves as a Senior PA for the Jail Mental Health Program at Parkland Health & Hospital System. She is also a Clinical Instructor and Psychiatry Preceptor in the Department of PA Studies at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. Ms. Judd received her MS in Human …
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