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Faculty180 – Vita and Individual Profile Data Sheet

Roshalda Williams, MSPA, BS, PA-C

Fall 1980 - Fall 2120

Assistant Professor I

Physician Assistant Program

RoshaldaWilliams@scuhs.edu

Current Position

  • Position: Associate Program Director of Didactic Education, Master of Science: Physician Assistant
  • Position: Associate Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Master of Science: Physician Assistant
  • Position: PA Principal Faculty

Biography

Roshalda Williams, is the Associate Program Director (APD) of Didactic Education for the Master of Science Physician Assistant Program (MSPA) and an Assistant Professor at Southern California University of Health Sciences (SCU), located in Whittier, California. She received her MS in Advanced Physician Assistant Studies with a concentration in Leadership and Education from A.T. Still University as well as her certification as a Physician Assistant from the University of Southern California (USC), and a BS in Biology from California State University, Los Angeles (CSULA).

 As APD Roshalda is a member of the MSPA leadership team responsible for program policy development, and continual  program self-assessment. In addition, PA Williams serves as co-chair of the President’s Task Force for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at SCU. The task force was developed in-part to further the University’s values of Health Equity and Inclusivity.

 As an Assistant Professor, Roshalda is the lead instructor of the Clinical Medicine series, and co-lead of the Geriatrics course. Along with her peers she is responsible for student selection, instruction, assessment and remediation. Roshalda is the chairperson of the MSPA Student Progress Committee, and serves on the Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (JEDI) committee. She is also the advisor for the University’s Spanish Medical Terminology Club (SMTC). 

 Prior to coming to SCU, Roshalda practiced at HealthCare Partners Medical Group, a large, multispecialty group in Los Angeles for over 30 years. She worked in Clinical Research, Family Practice, Internal Medicine, General Surgery (as first-assist), Comprehensive Care (high-risk care), Hierarchical Condition Category (HCC) Coding, and Mobile Patient Care. 

She holds membership in the American Academy of PAs (AAPA), and the California Academy of PAs (CAPA).

Degrees

2021

M.S., Leadership and Education, A T Still University, Meza, Arizona, United States

1981

B.Sc., Physician Assistant, California State University, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States

Professional Licensures (Healthcare)

PA-C, California, United States, PA11780, Active, 2018, 2024-02-29, 1003824988

Certifications (Healthcare)

American Heart Association, BLS, 225413978907, 2022-03-30, 2022-03-30

Work Experience

1986 - 2017

Physician Assistant, DaVita HealthCare Partners Medical Group, Los Angeles, California, United States

Scholarly Contributions and Creative Productions

Journal Article

Completed/Published

Williams, R. [Attachment]Wound-Induced RNase Activity in Sweet Potato - Evidence for Regulation at Transcription. Plant Physiology 1982, 69, 1060–1065.
Sacher JA, Tseng J, Williams R, Cabello A. Wound-Induced RNase Activity in Sweet Potato : EVIDENCE FOR REGULATION AT TRANSCRIPTION. Plant Physiol. 1982;69(5):1060-1065. doi:10.1104/pp.69.5.1060

Presentation

Completed/Published

Williams, R. [Attachment]DEI in Health Education. AIHM Conference, 2022.

Honors and Awards

Spring 2022 - Ongoing

Inaugural Health Justice Award, 2021, Southern California University of Health Sciences

Hear from the Students Who’ve Been in Your Shoes

Our Value: Integrative Health, Inclusivity

I chose SCU when looking for a PA program because of their Integrative Medicine approach. I am from Michigan, and not many programs focus on this Integrative, Holistic approach when it comes to patient care in the Midwest, and I felt that was very important for me to learn as a future provider. My transition to semi-virtual learning has been very smooth and quite enjoyable. My favorite part about attending SCU is how tight-knit and diverse the community is. Coming from a large undergrad university and moving so far, it was very important for me to have a PA program that made me feel valued and invested in my success. At SCU, they do a great job of making you feel that.

 

Brianna Hadley

MSPA Class of 2022

Our Value: Integrative Health

One of the great things about SCU is we do have a campus layout, so all your classes aren't in a single room. We have our cadaver lab. We have different specialty rooms for physical assessment classes vs. acupuncture classes. All our acupuncture-specific classes have all the herbs in the room. You can pull out the herbs and look at them, whether in class or in between classes to get that extra studying in.

My favorite part of SCU is the collaboration from our beginning terms. We were working alongside chiropractor students, PA students, and ayurvedic students. It's a unique community where we get to learn about these different fields and sit in classrooms with them and work with them in the clinic. It allows you to get an understanding of all the different fields and how they can work together, and what is unique about your field. I think that is a wonderful aspect that I didn't think was going to be as prominent as it is here; even now, in my upper term classes and I am not in class with chiropractic students, I can still reach out to them about a certain aspect I may not understand or if I am working on a case. I want another perspective I know I have them to reach out to, so that has been a great networking community to have resources for.

Dr. Jamie Kuljis

Graduate, Doctor of Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine

Our Value: Integrative Health, Inclusivity

"There are a lot of things that I love about the program at SCU. The first one is that the faculty come from a long line of Ayurvedic knowledge deeply rooted in ancient classical text. They studied Ayurveda, but they also lived it. When you learn from people who embody this wisdom, it's much easier to grasp this knowledge. The second thing I love is the camaraderie within the cohort. The combination of the training, supportive faculty, and the support of my peers and classmates has given me the confidence I need to start my own practice."

Portia Harris

Student, Ayurveda Program

Our Value: Evidence-Based Practice

Some of my favorite courses at SCU have to be the chiropractic procedure classes; those are the classes you get to hone in on your chiro skills, your palpation skills and ultimately work on the adjustments that make you a chiropractor. Those are the classes I feel enhance my knowledge the most and are some of the reasons I chose to become a chiropractor here are SCU.

On top of chiropractic procedures classes, my favorite is the cadaver lab experience. The cadaver classes opened up my perception of what the human body is made up of. It allowed me to get an in-person perspective of how the body works and looks on the inside. I am genuinely thankful for those experiences because they opened and broadened my horizons to the human body and anatomy in general.

Jordan Vega

Student, Doctor of Chiropractic

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