Krisi Gindlesperger MBA, MPAS, PA-C, DFAAPA

Krisi Gindlesperger, MBA, MPAS, PA-C, DFAAPA is the Executive Vice President, National Director of Advanced Practice for USACS. Previously, she has served as Lead APP of Adventist Healthcare, Shady Grove Medical Center Emergency Department, APP Education Coordinator, and Director of APPs Mid-Atlantic Region. Gindlesperger has led the charge in developing the APP Academy and onboarding program, developed the APP leadership structure, and worked to ensure the ability for APPs to work at an advanced scope of practice within USACS, which employs more than 1,300 APPs, 100+ APP leaders, and 11 APP Directors. She is a distinguished fellow of the AAPA. She also serves as the program director for the AAPA Executive Leadership Conference and has done so for the past two years.

She also has served in a variety of volunteer organizations to improve and advance the PA profession, including the AAPA, SEMPA (including a term as president), NCCPA, MAPA, and CHLM.

She earned a bachelor’s and a master’s of physician assistant studies from Gannon University and an MBA with a focus in healthcare from Walsh University.