Dr. Lisa Woolsey is a physician assistant (PA) who has been teaching at the undergraduate and graduate level in West Michigan since 2005. At Hope, she currently teaches a variety of General Biology and Introduction to Cell Biology lab sections. 

She has been a board-certified PA since 2000. She practiced briefly in family medicine and otorhinolaryngology but has been working in emergency medicine in West Michigan since 2006. She has been practicing in the Holland Hospital Emergency Department since 2010 and volunteers at a free medical clinic five miles from the Hope Campus. 

Dr. Woolsey began teaching part-time in Hope鈥檚 Department of Biology in 2022, having previously taught in the Department of Psychology (four semesters) and served as a guest lecturer in athletic training courses in the Department of Kinesiology. In addition, she taught part-time in Grand Valley State University鈥檚 physician assistant studies program from 2005鈥�2012.

Areas of Expertise

• Health behavior
• Gerontology
• Healthcare

Education

• Ph.D., health behavior/gerontology, Indiana University, 2005
• MMS, physician assistant studies, Midwestern University, 2000
• B.S., biology and secondary science education, Oral Roberts University, 1998

Publications

• 鈥淒evelopment of a Questionnaire to Assess Health Profession Student Knowledge of Older Adults鈥� (with M. Dacey et al.), Currents in Pharmacy Teaching and Learning, 2014
• 鈥淎ssistant Attitude and Expressed Intent to Work with Geriatric Patients,鈥� 2007
• 鈥淕eriatrics and the Future of the Physician Assistant Profession,鈥� Perspective on Physician Assistant Education, 2005
• 鈥淭eratogenicity of Fuel Fumes,鈥� Advance Online Editions for Physician Assistants, 2004
• 鈥淯tilization PAs in School-based Health Clinics,鈥� Journal of the American Academy of  Physician Assistants, 2003
• 鈥淚mmunotherapy for the Treatment of Refractory Allergic Rhinitis,鈥� Journal of the American Academy of Physician Assistants, 2003
• 鈥淭reatment of Pneumonia in the Elderly Patient, Advance Journal for Physician Assistants, 2003

Outside the College

Dr. Woolsey loves living in Holland with her husband (a Spanish professor at Hope College), daughter and son (a Hope student who is enjoying living on campus). Their family attends Pillar Church, right on the edge of Hope鈥檚 campus. She loves to travel, read, bike and go for walks with their two goldendoodles, Henry and Gus.