Nathaniel Shekem, MPAS, PA-C currently serves as a Director at Large on the SEMPA Board of Directors. He has been a member of the SEMPA Postgraduate Education Committee since 2017 and will take over as the Chair of this committee in July 2022. Nathaniel has been an EMPA since 2014. He completed a postgraduate emergency medicine training program at the University of Iowa. He currently works both at a level I academic tertiary care center at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics as well as a solo coverage critical access hospital in Washington, Iowa. He is a Clinical Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine and the Program Director for the University of Iowa Physician Assistant Emergency Medicine Residency.