Physician Assistant Keely L. Cook, MPAS, PA-C has extensive experience in patient care. She has worked as a PA since 1985 and using her talent and education she has been able to work in multiple areas of health care and medicine. She has worked in Lipid research, Family Medicine, and Women's Health with an emphasis on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome. She has experience working with Gastroenterology patient as a PA with the Department of Veterans Affairs at John Cochran VA Hospital. Her pursuit of knowledge and willingness to share her findings has allowed her to teach future Physician Assistants in the Program at St. Louis University.
Graduated Summa Cum Laude from the Physician Assistant Program at St. Louis University, St. Louis, MO
Bachelor of Arts/Biology : 1985
Graduated Magna Cum Laude from the School of Arts and Sciences at St. Louis University, St. Louis, MO
Graduate School Education:
MMS/Physician Assistant Studies : 2004
Graduated from the University of Nebraska Physician Assistant Program with a Master of Medical Science
Academic Appointments:
Assistant Professor/Phase I Director : 2000-2007
Saint Louis University School of Allied Health Professions, Department of Physician Assistant Education, St. Louis, MO
Adjunct Instructor/Clinical Medicine : 1989-1991
Saint Louis University School of Allied Health Professions, Department of Health Information Management, St. Louis, MO.
Adjunct Instructor/Clinical Medicine : 1987-2000
Saint Louis University School of Allied Health Professions in the Department of Physician Assistant Program, St. Louis, MO
Member : 2005-Present
Pi Alpha Honor Society; National Physician Assistant Honor Society
Alpha Eta Honor Society : 1985-Present
School of Allied Health Profesions; Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MO
Honors and Awards:
Excellence in Teaching : 2005
Doisy College of Health Science Faculty Excellence Award in Teaching
Who's Who : 1981-1985
Who's Who in American Colleges and Universities
Publications:
Journal of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome : 2006
Midwest family physicians' knowledge and attitudes about FAS, FASD, and alcohol use during pregnancy.
Advance for Physician Assistants : 2006
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
Professional Psychology: Research and Practice : 2006
Psychologists' knowledge and attitudes about FAS, FASD, and alcohol use during pregnancy.
Journal of Allied Health : 2006
Knowledge and attitudes about FAS, FASD, and alcohol used during pregnancy by occupational therapists in the Midwest.
Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine : 2006
Preventing alcohol exposed pregnancies.
Centers for Disease Control : 2004
Improveing Referral and Diagnosis of Children with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome: A Health Provider's Toolkit.
Arteriosclerosis : 1989
Two Distinct Truncated Apolipoprotein B Species in a Kindred Hypobetalipoproteinemia
Journal of Lipid Research : 1989
High Carbohydreate Fat-Free Diet Modulated Epitope Expression of LDL-ApoB-100 and Interaction of LDL with Human Fibroblasts
Metabolism : 1989
A High Carbohydrate Fat-Free Diet Alters the Proportion of Heparin-Bound VLDL in Plasma and the Expression of VLDL-ApoB-100 Epitopes.
