Antoinette Polito has been a physician assistant since 1999; she is an alumnx of the Duke University PA Program. Her areas of clinical experience include rural primary care and academic oncology. She has been a full-time PA educator since 2009 and joined the faculty at Elon in July of 2017. Her research interests include the physician assistant admissions process and LGBTQ healthcare, as well as the intersections of the humanities and medicine. PA Polito is currently a doctoral student in education at Northeastern University.