• PA Certificate of Completion
  Child Health Associate/Physician Assistant Studies 
  University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, CHA/PA Program
  May 2007
• Master of Science
  Anatomy
  Colorado State University
  Fort Collins, CO
  1999

• Bachelor of Science
  Biology
  Colorado State University
  Fort Collins, CO
  1997

• 2017 – present: Principal Faculty, Physician Assistant Program
  Rocky Vista University

• 2010 – 2016: Academic Coordinator / Assistant Professor
  University of Colorado Denver, CHA/PA Program
• 2007 – 2010: Physician Assistant
  Children’s Hospital Colorado

• Physician Assistant (2007-present)
  State of Colorado
• National Commission for Certification of Physician Assistants (2007-present)
• American Heart Association
• Professional Societies (2010-present)

Miscellaneous

• Associate Director, Interprofessional Education and Development Program Council (2013-2016)
• Honor and Conduct Code Faculty Chair (2012-2016)
• Blackboard and Canvas Advisory Committee, University of Colorado (2010-2016)
• CHA/PA Program Faculty Advisor (2010-2016)
• Mentor, 3rd-Year Capstone Project (2015)
• Mentor, Rural Track Interprofessional Students (2015)
• Faculty Trainer, Interprofessional Education Orientation Day (2015)
• Faculty Trainer, Interprofessional Education and Development Course (2015)
• Remediation Team Faculty Member (2014)
• Interprofessional Education Curriculum Development Committee (2012-2013)
• Alumni Survey Subcommittee of the Survey Working Group (2012-2013)
• Urban Underserved Interprofessional Education Track Steering Committee, University of Colorado (2010-2012)

• Physician Assistant Education Association
  2010-2016
• Colorado Academy of Physician Assistants
  2010-2016
• American Academy of Physician Assistants
  2010-2016

Presentations

• “The Revised Fresno Questionnaire as a Measure of Efficacy of an Evidence Based Medicine Course”
  Physician Assistant Education Association Annual Forum
  2012
• “Strategies for Implementing Interprofessional Education”
  Physician Assistant Education Association Annual Forum
  2011
• “Interactive In-class Activities to Engage Students in Evidence Based Medicine”
  Physician Assistant Education Association Annual Forum
  2011

• Interprofessional Education
• Student Professionalism
• Physician Assistant Education

Darcy Solanyk, MS, PA-C, received a Bachelor of Science in Biology and a Master of Science in Anatomy from Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado. She received her Physician Assistant Certificate from the University of Colorado’s Child Health Associate/Physician Assistant Program in 2007. She practiced in Pediatric Gastroenterology at Children’s Hospital Colorado in Aurora, Colorado before joining the Child Health Associate/Physician Assistant Program as a faculty member in 2010. She was a member of the faculty until 2016. Darcy Solanyk then joined the Rocky Vista University Physician Assistant program as a principal faculty member in 2017. She has a passion for interprofessional education, student professionalism, and her family.