Specialty

Weight Management

Family Medicine
 

Degrees Held

-MD, American University of Caribbean, Saint Maarten, Netherlands Antilles

-MD, University of Wyoming

-BSN, Olivet Nazarene University, Kankakee, Illinois
 

Certificates, Awards, & Affiliations

-Board Certified in Obesity Management

-Alpha Omega Phi Honor and Service Society 

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Associations

-American Academy of Family Physicians

-American Medical Association 

-International Society for the study of Women's Sexual Health

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Teal Vinger, ANP-C, was born and raised in Fairbanks so she is excited to give back to her community by providing local primary care. She loves to spend time with her family and traveling.

 

She graduated with her MSN from Frontier Nursing University and is board-certified as a family nurse practitioner with AANP. She has a BA in Biological sciences from UAF and a BSN from Jefferson College of Health Sciences (now Radford University). She has worked as a registered nurse locally for 10 years.

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PA Scharff was born in Philadelphia, PA, and was raised on the west coast in New Mexico and Colorado. She has worked in healthcare since 1995, starting as an emergency medical technician, and then paramedic in Las Vegas, Nevada, and later in Southern Callfornia. She first came to Alaska in 2009 to work as a flight paramedic for Guardian Flight based out of Fairbanks. She fell in love with Alaska and adopted it as her new forever home. She subsequently spent over ten years working remote, as a paramedic at Pogo Mine, on the Alaska Pipeline, in Unalaska, and various mine exploration projects throughout Alaska. She has also held technical roles at Alaska Providence Medical Center in Anchorage working in both the emergency department and the Heart and Vascular Center supporting emergency and cardiovascular physicians.

PA Scharff received a Bachelor of Science in Healthcare Administration from California Coast University, and a Bachelor of Art in Psychology from Southern New Hampshire University before pursuing pre-medical studies at the University of Alaska. She went on to receive her Master of Clinical Health Science from University of Washington. She is licensed in the State of Alaska as a physician assistant and is certified by the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants.

PA Scharff has a strong interest in social, behavioral, and mental wellness, and is pursuing post-graduate studies in clinical mental health counseling to further enhance her work as a physician assistant committed to helping her patients balance their physical and emotional health.

PA Scharff has held volunteer roles, with the State of Alaska advocating for residential care and nursing home residents as a Long-Term Care Ombudsman in Anchorage and mentoring pre-medical students through the University of Alaska’s Area Health Education Programs.

PA Scharff enjoys spending time with her husband when he is home from his rotation as an underground miner. In her spare time, she enjoys nurturing her creative side as a sketch artist, painter, photographer, and is an aspiring furniture flipper.