Gerald Kayingo, PHD, MBA, PA-C, DFAAPA
Executive Director, PALLA
Assistant Dean and Professor, School of Graduate Studies
Gerald Kayingo is the executive director of the Physician Assistant Leadership and Learning Academy (PALLA) and an assistant dean and professor at the graduate school at the University of Maryland. Professor Kayingo previously worked at the University of California Davis where he served in various capacities including director of the Master of Health Services-PA program. Prior to his UC Davis appointment in 2014, he was a faculty member at the Yale School of Medicine Physician Associate Program and practiced at the Yale New Haven Hospital Primary Care Center in Connecticut. Kayingo has extensive experience in scholarship, education, leadership, clinical practice and global health. His research interests relate to health professions education, health systems science, and the intersection of infectious diseases and substance use disorders. (addiction). His clinical interests are in primary care settings as well as advancing rural and global health.
He is a graduate of the Harvard Management Development Program (MDP) following a Master of Medical Science-Physician Assistant Degree at Yale University School of Medicine in Connecticut and a Doctor of Philosophy in Microbiology from Orange Free State University in South Africa. He completed his postdoctoral education in Infectious Diseases at Yale University School of Medicine, where he studied microbial pathogenesis, membrane transport and signal transduction. He is in the process of completing his Master of Business Administration (MBA) at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, specializing in strategic leadership and management.
Nationally, Kayingo has served as a director at large on the PAEA Board of Directors, member of the editorial board for the Journal of Physician Assistant Education and associate editor of BMC Health Services Research. He was a pioneering member of the Commission on the Health of the Public and served on the national health disparities working group for the American Academy of Physician Assistants. He was recently inducted into the prestigious Uganda National Academy of Sciences. Kayingo has co-authored three books on health professions education and published extensively on health systems science and infectious diseases in peer reviewed journals. He is a recipient of several awards, including a university book prize, the 2016 PA Student Academy mentor award, the 2015 AAPA Research Publishing Award and the 2014 Jack Cole Society Award at Yale.