2022-24 Physician Assistant Workforce Survey Page 6 of 23 FIGURE 1: PA WORKFORCE ADVISORY COUNCIL MEMBERSHIP Council Member Name Council Chair: Must be a fully licensed PA and is appointed by the State Surgeon General. John Byrnes, PA-C, DFAAPA Council Vice Chair: Must be a fully licensed PA and is appointed by the State Surgeon General. Katie Callaway, PA-C Member 1: Must be a physician and a member of the Florida Board of Medicine who supervises a PA in the physician’s practice. Wael Barsoum, MD Member 2: Must be a physician and a member of the Florida Board of Osteopathic Medicine who supervises a PA in the physician’s practice. (Vacant) Member 3: Must be a fully licensed PA and is appointed by the State Surgeon General. Dayne Alonso, PA PA Workforce Demographics With a population as large as 22,993,039 residents, Florida is ranked as the third most populous state in nation.7 Figure 2 compares the sex, ethnicity, and race between the PAs who selfreported their demographic information via MQA’s licensure database (14,8378), and Florida’s overall population. 7 According to the FLHealthCharts population dashboard, “2022 Population by County.” 8 The PA demographic data is not captured through the PA Workforce Survey; rather, demographic information is captured through MQA’s licensure database, which stores PA’s self-reported information about their age, ethnicity, and sex (also referred to as a licensure profile). More PAs completed their licensure profile than completed the 2022 and 2024 survey (or 14,837 compared to 14,427, respectively).
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