Jason Hare, MPAS, PA-C

Assistant Professor Jason Hare started his career as a Certified Athletic Trainer after graduating from Waynesburg University in 1998. After postbaccalaureate work at the University of Virginia in Athletic Training, he went to work as the Head Athletic Trainer and Special Education Biology Teacher at Langley HS in Fairfax County Public Schools in 1999. After moving to Pittsburgh, PA in 2001 and working as an ATC for one year, he attended Chatham University for Physician Assistant Studies, graduating in 2005. He spent his first year as a PA-C with UPMC Sports Medicine, in Orthopedic Surgery. One year later, he moved to Family/Primary Care Medicine for inpatients at the UPMC Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, where he practiced full time until 2014, and one day per week since then.

In January 2014 he was offered a full-time faculty position as Assistant Professor with the then 5 year-old PA Studies Program at the University of Pittsburgh. Since then, he has taught 3 semesters per year, including graduate Medical Physiology and Pathophysiology, Genetics, and most notably Intro to Clinical Medicine, Clinical Medicine I, and Clinical Medicine II. Starting in 2017 he started teaching Physiology and Pathophysiology to undergraduate students in the School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences Rehabilitation Science program.

The Be Excited! Podcast was formed as a program-agnostic PA education and information tool based on the NCCPA blueprint topics, which inform all learning objectives in PA studies. Taking advantage of the many wonderful community PA connections, interprofessional colleagues, and years of pedagogical experience working with hundreds of PA students and advisees, we hope to serve future, current and recent graduate PAs in their journey with accessible, timely learning specific to the wide variety of needs they have, in an audio format.