[Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 201 (Monday, December 11, 2017)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E1677-E1678]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




        HONORING USC PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT PROFESSOR JANICE TRAMEL

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                            HON. KAREN BASS

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                       Monday, December 11, 2017

  Ms. BASS. Mr. Speaker, I am proud to echo the praise heaped on my 
friend and mentor, Janice V. Tramel, over the past weekend at a 
surprise ceremony held by the University of Southern California (USC) 
honoring her 40 years of service to her patients, to nursing and to the 
profession of Physician Assistant (PA). She was instrumental in my own 
training as a Physician Assistant, first as a professor, then as a 
mentor, and eventually as a close friend.
   A California native, Mrs. Tramel completed both a vocational nursing 
and registered nursing program prior to graduating from the USC Primary 
Care Physician Assistant Program in

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1977 and joining the faculty two years later. Having learned under her, 
I later felt very proud to become her colleague on the PA faculty. As 
Director of Clinical Education from July 2013 through May 2017, she 
oversaw the clinical curriculum, clinical site development and student 
placements. She now holds PA-C Emeritus status.
   Her passion as an educator has benefitted generations of students, 
not just locally but at the state and national levels.
   She has served as a curriculum consultant, visiting lecturer, site 
visitor for the Accreditation Review Commission on Education of the 
Physician Assistant, and grant reviewer with the U.S. Department of 
Health & Human Services, Bureau of Health Professions. She was a 
gubernatorial appointee to the State of California Physician Assistant 
Committee, now known as the PA Board, from 1982 to 1992, serving as 
Committee Chair from 1987. But she has always returned to work with and 
for the underserved communities of Los Angeles.
   Her specialties include family medicine, adolescent medicine, 
women's health, occupational health, as well as quality assurance and 
utilization review. Her research interests include evaluation of 
student performance, faculty development, learning styles, educational 
methodology and technology and standardized testing. In May 2012, she 
was inducted into the Pi Alpha National Honor Society for Physician 
Assistants. Not content to serve others in her professional life, she 
has been an active volunteer with disadvantaged young adults, community 
health and geriatric wellness programs.
   I salute Janice Tramel for her lifelong commitment to serving and 
uplifting others, and for four decades of working to provide 
outstanding health care and train succeeding generations of care 
providers.

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