George S. Bottomley, DVM, PA-C
Associate Professor
Physician Assistant Program Director
Email: gbottomley@pco.edu
Education:
B.S., University of Rhode Island
DVM, Michigan State University
PA-C, Yale University School of Medicine
About George S. Bottomley:
Dr. Bottomley completed his undergraduate work at the University of Rhode Island and graduated from Michigan State University College of Veterinary Medicine. He began his clinical medical career in equine medicine and surgery, completing residencies in Veterinary Pathology at Cornell University and Kansas State University.
Dr. Bottomley held a Cornell appointment at the San Diego Zoo as a Pathology Resident, and was a Comparative Medicine and Pathology Resident at the University of Chicago, where he studied the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis. His NASA funded research at Kansas State University involved studying the effects of space flight on corneal development and sequencing the gene that encodes for corneal extracellular matrix.
Dr. Bottomley attended the Yale University Medical School Physician Associate program as a National Health Service Corps scholarship recipient. He was a family practice PA at the Hill Health Center, an inner city Yale-affiliated community health center in New Haven, CT.
His academic medicine career began as a Yale clinical preceptor at “The Hill.” Dr. Bottomley was the first Academic Coordinator and Vice Chair at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences PA Program. Other academic appointments include: Associate Director of Research and Interim Program Director at the Yale PA program, and Director of the Central Michigan PA program.
Dr. Bottomley has been awarded more than $700,000.00 in federal grant money to support his interests in minority student recruitment and geriatric medicine. He has published in the areas of molecular biology, neurology, and development of clinical skills. He also has served on the Pathway II committee of the National Board of Medical Examiners, the group that writes one of the recertification examinations for Physician Assistants. He is currently in his second term as chair of the Physician Assistant Education Association’s National Honor Society (Pi Alpha) committee.
Dr. Bottomley is certified by the National Commission on the Certification of Physician Assistants (NCCPA), and is a member of the Pennsylvania Society of Physician Assistants and the American Academy of Physician Assistants.