What Is a Physician Assistant?

Get to know Nnenna Onymauwa, PA-C, a physician assistant with Emerson Health Primary Care Bedford in Bedford, Massachusetts. She will discuss what physician assistants do, how they are trained, and how you can decide if you would like to have a physician assistant provide care to you and your loved ones.
Nnenna Onyemauwa, PA-C, grew up in Nigeria, where she studied foreign languages at Abia State University. She moved to the United States in 2007 and continued her education. She studied health sciences at the University of West Florida and continued to the University of South Alabama, where she completed the physician assistant program in 2013. Since then, she has been practicing as an internal medicine physician assistant.