Sonia Sikand

Sonia Sikand knew she wanted to be a PA since she was in 11^th grade after she shadowed several doctors and PA’s in a local hospital. “You’re able to switch fields and you’re always learning new things,” she said. “The PA’s I met loved what they did and I fell in love with the profession.”

Sikand graduated from Touro College School of Health Sciences in Bayshore. While there, she participated in a medical mission to Peru. Sikand’s family is Indian and she has visited India several times. She says that seeing the quality of care, or lack-there-of, in those two countries had an impact on her view of American healthcare. “Here in America, we take so many basic things for granted.”