Blake Geschke, MPAS, PA-C is an Assistant Professor of Practice with Lawrence Technological University’s Physician Assistant Studies Program. He has 8 years of clinical experience in various areas of medicine such as urgent care, allergy, asthma, immunology, orthopedics, and telemedicine. He was a front-like worker in urgent care during the COVID-19 pandemic and helped navigate one of the most tumultuous times in medicine. He has been active in PA education outside of clinical practice in a volunteer role with various Michigan PA programs through guest lecturing, exam proctoring, and participating in advisory board meetings. He was an adjunct faculty with Michigan State University’s PA Medicine Program for 2 years while volunteering on multiple occasions with Lawrence Tech’s PA Program. Blake is also a member of the American Academy of PAs and the Michigan Academy of PAs where he is a former board member of the MAPA Board of Directors. While in PA School at Grand Valley State University he was Class President of his PA Student Society and served for 2 years on the Board of Directors for the Student Academy of AAPA as Director of Student Communications. In undergraduate education at Central Michigan University he was a Leadership Advancement Scholar and a walk-on member of the varsity baseball team for 2 years winning a conference championship in 2009. Blake’s interests include regular exercise, traveling the world with his wife, and spoiling his orange cat.

The ARC-PA has granted Accreditation-Provisional status to the Lawrence Technological University Physician Assistant Program sponsored by Lawrence Technological University. Accreditation-Provisional is an accreditation status granted when the plans and resource allocation, if fully implemented as planned, of a proposed program that has not yet enrolled students appear to demonstrate the program’s ability to meet the ARC-PA Standards or when a program holding Accreditation-Provisional status appears to demonstrate continued progress in complying with the Standards as it prepares for the graduation of the first class (cohort) of students. Accreditation-Provisional does not ensure any subsequent accreditation status. It is limited to no more than five years from matriculation of the first class.

The program’s accreditation history can be viewed on the ARC-PA website at www.arc-pa.org/accreditation-history-lawrence-technological-university.