Physicians Assistant Richard L. Wayne joined Mountain Area Family Medicine in Cashiers in June 2001, working in conjunction with Dr. David Wheeler.

Wayne graduated from the Bowman Gray School of Medicine’s Physician Assistant Program at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, NC, in 1997 and was employed as a physician assistant at Gonzales Community Health Center prior to moving to the Cashiers area. He attended Arapahoe Community College in Colorado, earning an associates degree in 1990 in applied sciences and majoring in nursing. He was a registered nursed at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Denver, CO, for almost two years before entering the mission field in Amazon region of Brazil.

In 1994 he was awarded a National Health Service Corps Scholarship and enrolled at Gardner-Webb University in Boiling Springs, NC, where he completed courses required to earn a bachelor of science degree. From there he entered Bowman Gray.

He is certified by the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants and is a member of the American Academy of Physicians Assistants and the NC Academy of Physician Assistants. He is licensed by the NC Medical Board as a physician assistant.