Allan Platt, PA-C, MMSc - Physician Assistant Program, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia

Allan Platt, PA-C has a BS in Health Systems Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, a BS in Medical Science from the Emory University School of Medicine Physician Assistant program, and a MMSc in Career Physician Assistant from Emory.  He has worked as a Physician Assistant at Grady Memorial Hospital for 25 years providing care for underserved patient populations. Upon graduation, he started the triage center to assess and direct the 300 ambulatory patients a day to the proper level of clinical care in the 1000 bed county supported teaching hospital. He also worked in the adult walk-in clinic until 1984, where he mentored first and second year PA students. From 1984 until 2004 he was Program Coordinator and Physician Assistant at the Georgia Comprehensive Sickle Cell Center at Grady Health System. Allan is a Senior Associate in the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine in the Physician Assistant Program at Emory University School of Medicine. He is the course director for teaching patient communications skills and the medical history to first year PA students and Assistant Director of the Career Masters program, a web based masters degree for working PAs. He received the Emory PA Program "Outstanding PA of the year" in December 1992 and  "Teacher of the Year" award in December 1993. In 2002 he won the Teacher of the Year, Paragon Award from the American Academy of Physician Assistants. He won the Humanitarian of the Year Award from the Georgia Association of Physician Assistants in 2003. He also won the Student Association of the American Academy of Physician Assistants Presidents award in May 2007.

Allan is co-inventor of the MPS (Multidimensional Pain Score), a new documentation tool for patients and clinicians to communicate about pain, and a consultant in pain assessment and pain management. The MPS won the 2002 National Association of Public Hospitals Innovations in Technology Safety Net Award. He has been a speaker  at two of the JCAHO National leadership summits on Pain Management and co-author of Chapter 5 in Approaches to Pain Management: An Essential Guide for Clinical Leaders, published by Joint Commission Resources in 2002. He is also the co-author of a consumer education book: Overcoming Pain from Hilton Publishing released in September 2006.