Katharine Pearsall, MS, PA-C

Physician Assistant
Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center Comprehensive Cancer Center
Winston-Salem, NC

• Inpatient Medicine - H&Ps, supervised inpatient chemotherapy regimens, emergency admissions, procedures, and discharge summaries for solid and hematologic malignancies.
• Outpatient Medicine - Urgent Care visits, new patient visits, follow up appointments, and dictation in Head and Neck, Lung, GI, and GU clinics.
• Procedures including removing PICC lines, lumbar punctures, and bone marrow biopsies.

Medical Assistant
The Family Doctor
Chapel Hill, NC

• Obtained patient histories and vital signs.
• Collected specimens and conducted various diagnostic testing.
• Assisted with procedures such as suture removals, injections and wound care.

Research assistant
National Institutes of Health with National Institute of Aging Summer Internship
Baltimore, MD

• Characterized RAG 1 and RAG 2 DNA of Sea Urchins to determine the origin of the adaptive immune system
• Gel Electrophoresis and Western Blot
• Cell Culture and DNA Transfection
• Participated in Poster Day 2006

• Family Medicine: Dr. Paul Meyer, Lexington Family Physicians, Lexington, NC

• Pediatrics: Dr. Jack Anderson, South Charlotte Pediatrics, Charlotte, NC

• Psychiatry: Dr. Linda Mundle: Center for Mental Health, Charlotte, NC

• Obstetrics/Gynecology: Dr. Susan Bliss, Carolinas Medical Center, Charlotte, NC

• Emergency Medicine: Dr. Gus Colmenares, Davie County Emergency Department, Mocksville, NC

• Internal Medicine- Inpatient: Coronary Care Unit, Baptist Medical Center, Winston-Salem, NC

• Infectious Disease: Dr. Sam Pegram, Baptist Medical Center, Winston-Salem, NC

• General Medicine - Outpatient: Dr. Terry Arnold, Lexington Internal Medicine, Lexington, NC

• Surgery: Dr. Craig Evans, Charlotte Surgical Group, Charlotte, NC

• Pulmonology: Dr. Barry Sigal, Salem Chest, Winston-Salem, NC

• Pediatric Hematology/Oncology: Dr. Marcia Wofford, Baptist Medical Center, Winston-Salem, NC

• Katharine Boles.Increasing Fertility Rates in Women with Polycystic Ovarian Diseases. Wake Forest University School of Medicine Masters Symposium, Presentation will be given in April 2010. Paper and Oral presentation with PowerPoint.

• Katharine Boles. Leukemias. Wake Forest University School of Medicine, August 2009. Oral presentation with PowerPoint.

• Group Presentation: Brittany Jackson, Mary Ellen Kisler, and Katharine Boles. Gout Prophylaxis. Wake Forest University School of Medicine, February 2009. Oral presentation with PowerPoint.

Manos Abiertas
Barrio Jesus, Costa Rica

• Volunteer for a Catholic-run Clinic for terminally-ill patients or patients with severe mental/physical handicaps, birth defects, or genetic disorders
• Assisted Physical Therapist daily
• Lived with a Costa Rican family for 4 months

• Designed to help children not fall behind in school despite being in the hospital for an extended period of time.
• Tutored patients once a week in the Eating Disorders and Adolescent Psychiatric Unit.
• Tutored patients once a week in the Pediatric Unit.

• Organized nutritional meal plans for AIDS patients in Chatham County
• Shopped for and cooked seven meals per week
• Delivered food every Monday to a Chatham County Social Worker

Vice President Class of 2010
Wake Forest University Physician Assistant Program
Katherine Anderson Student Society
Winston-Salem, NC

• Organized and planned events such as fund raisers and volunteer opportunities for the physician assistant program.
• Organized and fund-raised for community groups such as the Susan G. Komen 5K.

Committee Member- UNC Dance Marathon
University of North Carolina
Hospital Committee

• Family Relations Committee
• Liaison between patient families, organized monthly social events for pediatric in-patients, and fund-raising activities.
• UNC Dance Marathon Dancer in 2004, 2006, and 2007

Katherine Anderson Society (WFU PA Student Society)

• Lived in Alaska from June - August 2007 and worked for Princess Lodges as a waitress in Denali National Park
• Ran 2 Half Marathons:
• Amica Half Marathon, Seattle, WA - 11/2009
• Charlotte Half Marathon, Charlotte, NC - 04/2007
• Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure 5K, Winston-Salem, NC 5/2009, 5/2010