New Year, New Faces: Mr. Curtis Grenoble
Amber Haeberle
Issue date: 2/4/09 Section: News
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Since being acquainted with the recently operating health building, Grenoble finds himself visiting the main campus once a week.
Grenoble spends the majority of his time stationed at the Clearfield campus.
At Clearfield, Grenoble serves as the campus coordinator of the Physician Assistant program while being a part of team teaching program.
"This program is where professors between both the campuses split course load … We try every week to have another professor from the other campus rotate in and continue educating the student regarding their courses," said Grenoble.
The modules Grenoble typically teaches include nearly every organ system, such as rheumatology, which he is in charge of, and orthopedics.
Grenoble is the adviser for students from the Physician Assistant program from the Clearfield campus, while managing the day-to-day activities in the program.
"There are about 500 applications between both campuses for the 46 seats available," he said.
Grenoble encourages students to focus on academics and suggests that students get to know about the Physician Assistant profession and program.
They are able to do this by shadowing to increase one's experience.
According to him, students need to "be persistent to see if you can improve your application if one is not successful in getting into the program the first time around."
Grenoble's interest rests in the health sciences, as well as in helping others.
His education began in 1999 at the Penn State main campus.
This is where, by 2003, he earned his bachelor's degree in biology with a focus in vertebrate physiology.
From 2004 to 2006, he went to Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine (PCOM) for their PA program.
He graduated with a master's in Physician Assistant studies from PCOM.
"Before joining the faculty here, I was a clinically practicing Physician Assistant in orthopedic surgery in DuBois for 18 months. Before that, I had done a few months of general surgery, mainly oncology at Geisinger," said Grenoble.
What mainly drew Grenoble to taking the position at Lock Haven was the focus of the program on providing high quality of care in a rural area.
"It is the only master's level Physician Assistant program in the State System of Higher Education," he said.
Grenoble lives around the Sandy Ridge /Philipsburg area with his wife, a veterinarian technician and their four cats.
He enjoys the natural setting of Lock Haven and doing outdoor activities, such as mountain biking and hiking.
His other hobbies include singing and playing the violin for friends, family and occasionally weddings.
"In the future I would like to travel abroad… I have been on mission trips with my church to an elementary school in Puerto Rico where we did building and maintenance repairs, and I would like to do more with that. I would also like to do more in the future with medical practice in other countries," Grenoble said.
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