Connecticut Magazine Health Care Heroes: PA Instructor Paul Possenti

Saluting Front-Line Workers in the Battle Against the Coronavirus

SHU Physician Assistant Studies Adjunct Instructor Paul Possenti: Director of Trauma Services and Emergency Management, Bridgeport Hospital

Bridgeport Hospital’s Paul Possenti credits his U.S. Army training with preparing him for leading the logistics of planning for staffing, beds, medical equipment and personal protective equipment through the COVID-19 pandemic.

As director of trauma services, emergency management and safety and security, he and other hospital leaders started tracking the coronavirus in January while it was in China. The hospital has emergency management plans in place, so they began preparing for when the virus would come to their hospital, he says.

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