Jim Sutton

Jim Sutton, PA-C, DFAAPA is a Physician Assistant. He graduated from the University of Washington School of Public Health and Community Medicine in 1987 and completed a residency in Pediatrics at Yale School of Medicine in 1993. He spent most of his career as the Director of Community Medicine at Rochester Regional Health where he created Rochester’s Center for Refugee Health. In addition to his full-time employment, he served on the U.S. National Disaster Medical System where he was deployed 12 times over the last decade.

He is the recipient of numerous awards including the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Innovation in Prevention Award. He has also authored a book entitled Top 5 Questions to Ask Your Doctor (Outskirts Press, 2010).

Jim is the founder of the Society’s North American Refugee Health Conference (now known as the International Refugee and Migration Health Conference) as well as the founder and former Executive Director of the Society of Refugee Healthcare Providers. Jim is currently spending his retirement as the Grants & Operations Manager for the Society.