Colene Wade is an assistant professor with the Physician Assistant program at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. She completed her undergraduate and graduate degrees at Grand Valley State University in Michigan. She has worked the past 12 years clinically in family medicine within in a residency training program at Western Michigan University School of Medicine. During that time, she precepted medical and PA students where she found excitement in teaching. She enjoys living an active lifestyle, athletics, being outdoors and spending time with her husband and two children.