Perspectives Winter/Spring-2017

14 • NOVA SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY BY LAURA GUNDER-MCCLARY, D.H.SC ., PA-C, PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT—ORLANDO CHCS Alumnus Realizes Medical Missionary Dream Class of 2015 alumnus Andrew Geers, PA-C, and his wife, Alisa, are moving to Latin America to serve at a mission hospital called Hospital Loma de Luz on the rural northern coast of Honduras. Geers was first drawn to the medical missions’ field in high school and was further shaped by a mission trip to Nicaragua he took with his wife in 2008. After graduating from the University of Florida in 2009, Geers worked as a certified athletic trainer, gaining valuable health care experience. In 2013, he enrolled in the NSU Orlando Campus Physician Assistant Program to further his medical knowledge and have a greater impact on the health care needs of patients. After graduating in the fall of 2015, he began working full time in an internal medicine practice in the Orlando area to help solidify his primary care education and training. While Geers was completing his education, his wife continued to work as a family nurse practitioner, serving uninsured and underserved patients in a community clinic in Orlando. Fins Up in H