Physician Assistant Studies Alumni Reunion

He has worked at Lutheran Medical Center (now NYU Langone Lutheran medical Center) in Brooklyn, New York as Director of Surgical PA Services, and spent two years in a private orthopedic practice as the lead PA. Currently, his clinical activities are based at Winthrop University Hospital in Mineola, New York where he is the senior PA in surgical critical care.

Acevedo was recruited to New York Tech in 1998 as one of the founding faculty members and while here has held committee and board positions on the New York State Society of Physician Assistants, the Physician Assistant Education Association (PAEA), New York Institute of Technology, and Winthrop University Hospital. His current PAEA committee appointment has him serving on the end of rotation examination development committee for emergency medicine and surgery. Of note his major academic contributions are the surgical chapter in the AAPA/PAEA PANCE PANRE Review book edited by Zarbock and O’Connell as well as the general surgery and vascular chapter in the Appleton & Lange Q&A for the Physician Assistant Examination edited by Anthony Miller. He has published in the Journal of the American Academy of Physician Assistants as well as Critical Care Medicine (the Journal for the Society of Critical Care Medicine) and has lectured locally, regionally, nationally, and internationally. Current lecture topics of interest include Sepsis in Critical Care, Procalcitonin as a Marker of Sepsis, Musculoskeletal Ultrasound, Point of Care Critical Care Ultrasonography, and Prevention Strategies for Ventilator Associated Pneumonia.

Acevedo describes his teaching style as edutainment, and loves to mix in personal clinical experiences to keep his students engaged.