{"id":13763,"date":"2025-07-18T19:42:32","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T19:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/?p=13763"},"modified":"2025-09-16T19:09:26","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T19:09:26","slug":"from-interpreter-to-physician-assistant-sahan-journal-highlights-muhiyadin-aden-24-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/2025\/07\/18\/from-interpreter-to-physician-assistant-sahan-journal-highlights-muhiyadin-aden-24-2\/","title":{"rendered":"From Interpreter to Physician Assistant: Sahan Journal Highlights Muhiyadin Aden &#8217;24"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2025\/02\/Screenshot-2025-02-13-at-3.08.06\u202fPM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11687 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2025\/02\/Screenshot-2025-02-13-at-3.08.06\u202fPM.png\" alt=\"Stylized S in red against a black background above the words &quot;Sahan Journal&quot;\" width=\"108\" height=\"112\" \/><\/a>Muhiyadin &#8220;Mo&#8221; Aden &#8217;24 MSPAS worked his way up from a starting position as a casual Somali interpreter to head of Hennepin County Medical Center&#8217;s interpreter department before deciding he could make a bigger impact with a medical degree. After graduating from Augsburg&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/pa\/\">Master of Science in Physican Assistant Studies program<\/a>, he returned to HCMC\u2014this time as a provider in the emergency department.<\/p>\n<p>The Sahan Journal recently profiled Aden, who described his work to connect with patients:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThis is a hospital that serves people that are underserved \u2026 20% to 30% of the patients that we see here have limited English proficiency. That\u2019s a huge challenge to provide care for those patients, but I think they do the best they can, and that\u2019s why I came back.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/sahanjournal.com\/health\/hcmc-physician-assistant-interpreter-somali-patients\/\">HCMC staffer\u2019s switch from interpreter to physician assistant bridges gap with Somali patients<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Muhiyadin &#8220;Mo&#8221; Aden &#8217;24 MSPAS worked his way up from a starting position as a casual Somali interpreter to head of Hennepin County Medical Center&#8217;s interpreter department before deciding he could make a bigger impact with a medical degree. After graduating from Augsburg&#8217;s Master of Science in Physican Assistant Studies program, he returned to HCMC\u2014this <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[241],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13763"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13764,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13763\/revisions\/13764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}