After graduation from the physician assistant program at PCOM in 2013, I moved across the country to Seal Beach, California where I started practicing as a PA. My first job out of school was in occupational medicine, followed by a second job in obstetrics and gynecology. I then moved back to Pennsylvania after two years of being in California and started my third job in the urgent care setting in 2015 and have been working there ever since. I then started teaching as an adjunct with the Drexel PA program in at the beginning of the 2022 in the clinical assessment labs and loved it, and then was given the opportunity to come on full time in fall of 2022. Currently I lead Women’s Health and Behavioral Medicine in the clinical year.

I enjoy working with students in the clinical skills labs, seminar groups, as well as giving lectures.

Professional Society

Selected Publications

• Umstead, M., Zebuski, A., & Rusgo, A. (2025). Infections of the nail: Paronychia and Felon. Journal of the American Academy of PAs. https://doi.org/10.1097/01.JAA.0000000000000248

Master of Science in Physician Assistant Studies, 2013
Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine
Philadelphia, PA

Bachelor of Science in Biology, 2011
Ursinus College
Collegeville, PA