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How MDs and NPs/PAs Compare: Pharma Marketers Take Note
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Stephen Brunton
MD, FAAFP
  • Dr. Brunton works in a group practice in South Carolina and is a Professor in Family Medicine at Touro University.
  • He is also Executive VP of the Primary Care Education Consortium (PCEC), and Executive Director of the US Primary Care Metabolic Group (PCMG).
  • He also serves as Editor-in Chief of the ADA’s journal, Clinical Diabetes.
  • Previously he served as director of education for the AAFP. He has over 175 publications in journals and speaks at national and international meetings.
Mark McClanahan
MD
  • Dr. McClanahan is the founder of Diabetes & Thyroid Associates in Spotsylvania VA, which has evolved into one of the largest practices in the Southeast focusing on diabetes, thyroid and other hormonal disorders.
  • Dr. McClanahan is a Diplomat of the American Board of Internal Medicine and is a Charter Fellow of the American College of Endocrinology.
  • He is a professor at the James Madison University PA Program and has lectured widely drawing on his 39 years of experience in endocrinology.
Scott Urquhart
PA-C, DFAAPA
  • Scott Urquhart has been practicing endocrinology since 1996 with Diabetes and Thyroid Associates in Virginia.
  • He is a founding member and a Past President of the American Society of Endocrine PAs.
  • PA Urquhart has Clinical teaching affiliations with James Madison University and George Washington University PA programs.
  • PA Urquhart and Dr. McClanahan received the Paragon Award for Outstanding PA/Physician Partnership for the state of Virginia in 2015.
Wendy L. Wright
DNP, ANP-BC, FNP-BC, FAANP, FAAN, FNAP
  • Wendy is the owner of an award winning NP owned and operated clinic as well as a medical education company.
  • Dr. Wright was named the NH Nurse Practitioner of the Year in 2024, Advocate of the Year, a Top 5 Woman Led Business in NH, and one of the Top 10 NPs in America in 2018 and 2023.
  • Wendy is also the author of two textbooks, and an international speaker on clinical practice and entrepreneurship.