Amanda DeVoss serves as the program director for the Physician Assistant program and is an associate professor with the Department of Medicine. In addition to her academic role, DeVoss maintains a clinical practice at UW Health’s Digestive Health Center, specializing in treating patients with liver disease. Her teaching and mentorship is enriched by her 25 years of clinical experience.
DeVoss joined the UW School of Medicine and Public Health as a clinical instructor in 2010 and since then has overseen the curriculum for the didactic and clinical year students, served as course director for more than nine PA program courses, and mentored more than 100 students. She has taught undergraduate and graduate PA students and MD students, served as a guest lecturer, led continuing medical education courses for local, regional and national audiences and co-led the PA program’s service learning trip to Belize four times.
DeVoss serves (or has served) on the admissions committee, the curriculum committee, the community-based learners committee and the faculty-staff committee. She recently finished a three-year appointment to the school’s educational policy and curriculum committee and currently sits on the Physician Assistant Education Association’s Cultural Humility Exam Development Board. She is a founding member and current member of the UW Health Metabolic Liver Clinic and from 2017 to 2021 was an interprofessional panel member for the Pharmacy 125 Exploration Undergraduate Course.
Prior to her arrival at UW–Madison, DeVoss completed the Schering Corporation Fellowship Program in Liver Disease for Physician Assistants at Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke’s Medical Center in Chicago. She earned her undergraduate degree in medical microbiology and immunology at UW–Madison and her Master of Medical Science in Physician Assistant Studies at Midwestern University in Downers Grove, Illinois.