The Sheepdog Project

Roland Paquette enlisted in the US Army after the events of September 11th, 2001. He graduated from the Q-Course and served with the 3rd Special Forces Group as a Special Forces Medical Sergeant, (Green Beret Medic/18D). He deployed to Afghanistan with his ODA specializing in Mountain Warfare and High Altitude Rescue.   Roland was traumatically injured by an IED blast resulting in both legs being amputated above the knees and medically retired from the US Army. After working in the Department of Defense and Intelligence Community, Roland decided to return to something that he enjoyed during his Army career, Medicine. Roland returned to school to become a Physician Assistant and now is an Emergency Medicine PA staffing multiple emergency rooms and clinics in South Texas.   In addition to his clinical work, Roland is Adjunct Faculty at University of Texas Health Science Center Department of Physician Assistant Students and a member of the Department of Emergency Medicine. Within academic medicine Roland was a p