Amanda Berg, DMS, PA-C, Named Barton Associates' 2024 Locum Tenens Physician Assistant of the Year

PEABODY, Mass. -  Barton Associates, a leading locum tenens staffing and recruiting company in the United States with nine offices nationwide, announced that emergency medicine physician assistant (PA) Amanda Berg, DMS, PA-C, has been named the company’s 2024 Locum Tenens Physician Assistant of the Year. This inaugural award, presented annually during PA Week (Oct. 6–12), recognizes one PA who has demonstrated exceptional commitment to their profession and patients.

Berg lives and practices medicine in eastern Massachusetts, where she’s worked locum tenens assignments at urgent care centers that provide crucial healthcare to the state’s underserved patient populations.

In the past, Berg has worked as a COVID-19 clinical researcher in New York City, a volunteer Spanish interpreter at a free clinic in Utah, and an EMT at rural and Indian Health Service (IHS) settings across the western United States—all experiences that Berg said instilled a dedication to providing medical care to marginalized groups.