Dave Mittman, P.A. Senior Vice President / Co-Founder dmittman@advancedprac.com Dave has been a PA leader for thirty years. He co-founded the LIU PA Program student society, was President of the New York State Society of PAs in 1979 and served on the American Academy of Physician Assistants (AAPA) Board of Directors from 1981-1983. Dave was also the first USAF Reserves PA permitted to practice. Dave spent 9 years in primary care in Brooklyn, N.Y. and left to begin a career in medical publishing with Physician Assistant Journal. Dave left PA Journal to co-found Clinicians Publishing Group (1990) and Clinician Reviews Journal in 1991. Dave has also won the AAPA Public Education award for leading the march in Trenton NJ to establish PA practice. Dave and his partners took Clinicians Group and built it into a major publishing business by launching eight journals in six different physician specialties within an eight year period, something never done before in the history of medical publishing. In 2001, Clinicians Group was acquired by Jobson Publishing. In 2005, Dave along with partner Gary Falcetano, PA-C launched Advanced Practice Communications, a new medical communications company. Dave has authored papers in publications as diverse as "Chicken Soup for the Expectant Mothers Soul", "U.S. Pharmacist", "The British Medical Journal" and others. Most recently Dave has been busy launching a lifelong dream; the new "American College of Clinicians" which is a national professional group comprised of both NPs and PAs. Dave is married to his sweetheart Bonnie for 28 years and has two wonderful children.