Blaine Paxton Hall
BS, MHS-CL, PA-C, Emeritus, DFAAPA (Ret)
Creator and Founder of The School of Athens
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Distinguished Fellow of the AAPA (American Academy of PAs)
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PA-C Emeritus, NCCPA (National Commission for the Certification of PAs
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Retired from Duke Medical Center
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Inpatient Acute Care Nephrology and Hospital Medicine, Sr. Clinician
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Associate Professor appointment for Duke PA Program instructing
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Innovator and Entrepreneur
The School of Athens, creator and founder
Founder of the Duke Adult Gender Medicine Clinic (Jan 2018)
Founder of the American Academy of Nephrology PAs (1997)
Twice nominated for Innovator of the Year for course Math Anxiety Reduction at Central Piedmont Community College (1986)
Leadership
Invited Speaker to Duke OLLI Symposia, February 14, 2023
NC Medical Society Policy Committee 2023; Committee Consultant
NC Medical Society Foundation Board of Trustees 2019 through 2021
NC Medical Society Leadership College Scholar (2007)
First Chair of the first Diversity Committee of the NCAPA (2007)
Scholarship
Instructor for Duke OLLI Continuing Education Department
BS Roosevelt University, Chicago
Physician Associate Training, Wake Forest Univ School Medicine
MHS-CL (Clinical Leadership), Duke Univ School Medicine
Repeated Calc 1 and 2 for college credit 2018-2019. Have completed Calc 3 and Differential Equations.
Author of numerous articles, essays and of Hestia’s House, a literary memoir with the overarching theme of home. www.hestiashouse.com
Member of MENSA since 1982
Service
Founding Member and Lifetime Circle of Friends Member of the PA History Society (2002 and 2022 respectively)
Sole medical provider at Moore Free Care Clinic (2005)
"One of the authors of the WPATH SOC (Standards of Care), versions 7 and current version 8
Duke Medicine Sexual and Gender Diversity Advisory Council 2014
Stakeholder’s, and Patient Advisory Boards of the Duke Adult Gender Medicine Clinic. 2021 (I declined offered remuneration)
Editorial Board of the North Carolina Medical Journal
Other
“Outstanding PA of the Year” by the NCAPA (2004)
For Detail
Blaine lives at Hestia’s House in a bucolic, magical village…
 Hestia's House |  A fairy ring, also known as a fairy circle, elf circle or pixie ring. A naturally occurring ring or arc of mushrooms. During a period of much rainfall, they may “pop up” magically overnight. Fairy rings are the subject of folklore and myth worldwide. |  Magic berries from which comes “ambrosia of the gods". |  Turtles sunbathing. |  This is Artemis, named after the Greek goddess of deer. I have seen her numerous times around Hestia’s House for years. The deer appears in the mythology, folk and fairy tales of numerous cultures. |
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 Artemis, posing. |  |  |  |  |
 The sweet smell of summer hay. |  |  Father, Son and Holy Spirit. |  |  |
 |  Eschew biting off more than you can chew. |  |