Walter Eisenhauer is the director of the Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania Physician Assistant Program and Chair of the School of Graduate Studies. He was involved in the feasibility study that created the first graduate entry level physician assistant program in a public institution in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and has served in various academic roles since the program's inception in 1996. Mr. Eisenhauer has served as the principal investigator of the Bureau of Health Professions' Title VII training grants in Primary Care focused on the use of technology and distance education in physician assistant education and has authored a PASSHE Program Initiative Grant creating a distance education classroom at the Lock Haven University branch campus in Clearfield, Pennsylvania.

          Mr. Eisenhauer is a physician assistant by training and a native of central Pennsylvania. His professional interests include creation of alternative health care delivery systems utilizing physician assistants and the use of technology within the physician assistant educational environment. Mr. Eisenhauer serves on the Board of Directors of the Association of Physician Assistant Programs, Pennsylvania Rural Health Association and Clinton County Healthy Communities. He has published within the physician assistant educational and professional journals on topics from international physician assistant education, academic degrees for physician assistants and use of technology and databases within the physician assistant educational process.

          Mr. Eisenhauer represents Lock Haven University by serving as a co-investigator for the Central Pennsylvania Center of Excellence for Research on Pregnancy Outcomes, the vision of which is to reduce disparities in adverse pregnancy outcomes by improving women's preconception health.

          Mr. Eisenhauer holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Hahnemann University School of Allied Health in Physician Assistant Studies; a Master Degree in Medical Science from St. Francis University in Loretto, Pennsylvania; and completed a post graduate surgical residency program at Norwalk Hospital/Yale School of Medicine.