MURFREESBORO, Tenn. — Long before she became a statewide leader in physician assistant education, Marie Patterson was a little girl sitting in the stands at Middle Tennessee State University, cheering on the Blue Raiders alongside her father.
“I’ve been here in Murfreesboro since I was 5 and I love, love Murfreesboro,” said Patterson, a physician assistant and founding director of MTSU’s Physician Assistant Studies program in the College of Behavioral and Health Sciences, or CBHS.
That hometown pride came full circle this year when she was inducted into the Tennessee Academy of Physician Assistants Hall of Fame — an honor recognizing her decades of service, advocacy and innovation in the PA profession…