Our 2025 Speakers

Sandra Ouellette, PhD (Hon.), CRNA, FAANA

Director Acute Surgical Pain Management Fellowship

Middle Tennessee School of Anesthesia

Assistant Director of the Nurse Anesthesia program at Duke University., Immediate-Past

Served as the coordinator for the open ultrasound lab at the AANA Annual Congress

Received the AANA Foundation Program Director’s Award for Outstanding Research in Ultrasound-Guided Regional Anesthesia,

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Tracy P. Young, MSNA, MBA, CRNA

Sandra Ouellette, PhD (Hon.), CRNA, FAANA

2024-25 AANA Vice-President

2022-24 Board of Directors, Region 7

American Association of Nurse Anesthesiology

Founder YPS Anesthesia, an anesthesia management and consulting company

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Garry Brydges, MBA, PhD, DNP, CRNA

Sandra Ouellette, PhD (Hon.), CRNA, FAANA

Garry Brydges, MBA, PhD, DNP, CRNA

Board Certified Pediatric Intensivist

Board-eligable Pediatric Anesthesiologist

Nationwide Children's Hospital

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Suzie Newell, DNP, CRNA, FAANA

BobbieJean Sweitzer, MD, FACP, SAMBA-F, FASA

Garry Brydges, MBA, PhD, DNP, CRNA

AANA Board of Directors 2024-25

Past Ohio ANA President

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BobbieJean Sweitzer, MD, FACP, SAMBA-F, FASA

Practicing Physician Anesthesiologist

University of Virginia

Charlottesville, Virginia

Systems Director,

Preoperative Medicine Inova Health

Falls Church, Virginia

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Sawpnil Khoche, MD

BobbieJean Sweitzer, MD, FACP, SAMBA-F, FASA

Professor of Anesthesiology,

University of California at San Diego

La Jolla, California

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Wilma Gillis, CRNA BSN APNP FAANA

Chief Nurse Anesthetist,

University of Wisconsin, Ret.

Practicing CRNA, VA Surgery Center, Dublin, Ohio

Chair AANA Foundation, 2014-2017

Philanthropist

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Lisa Solder CRNA MSNA APN

Wilma Gillis, CRNA BSN APNP FAANA

Practicing Nurse Anesthesiologist

Peterson Health

Kerrville, Texas

Ultrasound Regional Block Instructor

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