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Bio
Dr. Bondy is a distinguished clinician, educational leader, and innovator. In 2020 she became the first PA to serve as the CEO of the Physician Assistant Education Association (PAEA), where she led a staff of 40 in serving the more than 250 member programs of PAEA and meeting the needs of more than 3,000 individual faculty. Dr. Bondy’s involvement and contribution on key publications related to healthcare workforce shortages in Maryland contributed to UMB Graduate School receiving a state-funded grant to establish a Physician Assistant Leadership and Learning Academy (PALLA), founded in July 2019, to increase the capacity of faculty to educate future PAs for the Maryland health workforce, and to advance PA education, research, and policy.
Dr. Bondy graduated from Marquette University as a medical technologist. After becoming a PA in 1993, she worked in orthopedic surgery at Duke University Medical Center for two years prior to joining Wilmington (NC) Health Associates and practicing in internal medicine. She practiced for two years with Forstner Family Practice and Urgent Care before returning to Duke in 2000 to work in the emergency department. She later moved to Maryland, where she worked in the emergency department at George Washington University and also worked at the Bethesda Naval Hospital Emergency Department.