Our 2025 Speakers

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Past President AANA

Past President International Federation of Nurse Anesthetists 2004-2010

Past Program Director, Nurse Anesthesia Program 1982-2005

Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center/University of North Carolina Greensboro 

2024-25 AANA Vice-President

2022-24 AANA Board of Directors, Region 7

American Association of Nurse Anesthesiology

Founder YPS Anesthesia, an anesthesia management and consulting company

Director of Anesthesia Quality & Safety at MD Anderson Cancer Center 

Houston, Texas 

Director, NBCRNA 

AANA Board of Directors 2024-26

Past Ohio ANA President

Expertise in OB Anesthesia and CRNA Resilience and Mental Health

Practicing Physician Anesthesiologist

University of Virginia 

Charlottesville, Virginia 

Past-President SAMBA

Systems Director, Preoperative Medicine,

 Inova Health, Falls Church, Virginia  

Professor of Anesthesiology, 

University of California at San Diego

La Jolla, California

Expertise in Echocardiography, Pulmonary Hypertension and Perioperative Medicine

Chief Nurse Anesthetist, 

University of Wisconsin, Ret.

Practicing CRNA, VA Surgery Center, Dublin, Ohio

Chair AANA Foundation, 2014-2017

Philanthropist

Practicing Nurse Anesthesiologist 

Peterson Health

Kerrville, Texas

Ultrasound Regional Block Instructor