Ruth Ballweg, MPA, PA-C Emeritus, DFAAPA, was program director of the University of Washington’s (UW) MEDEX Northwest Physician Assistant (PA) Program in Seattle for 29 years, from 1985 to 2014. She has been directly involved in the Alaska dental health aide therapist movement since its beginning when UW’s MEDEX Northwest Physician Assistant Program agreed to be the co-sponsor and academic home of the Alaska Dental Therapy Program—along with the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium. Ballweg is a member of the Dental Licensing Board of the Swinomish Tribe in Washington. She is also a member of the Perspectives on the Midlevel Practitioner’s Editorial Advisory Board.