Qualified Planners/Faculty
Michael Davis, RN, BSN, SRNA
Michael is a graduate student in the Doctorate of Nurse Anesthesia Practice program at AdventHealth University. Prior to acceptance to the DNAP program he worked as a registered nurse (RN) for over 4 years with 2 years of experience working in the cardiovascular intensive care unit (CVICU) and 1 year working as a critical care travel nurse in various COVID ICUs throughout southern Florida. During his training in the CVICU, he acquired his Critical Care Registered Nurse (CCRN) certification. He also went on to earn his Cardiac Surgery Certification (CSC) shortly after due to his profound passion for continuing his education in cardiovascular nursing. While working in the CVICU Michael frequently cared for patients who required a vigilant and proactive mindset including patients on ECMO, LVAD, Centrimag, total artificial heart, tandem pump, Impella, CRRT, and more. After leaving the CVICU he went on to travel during the height of the pandemic in 2020 and cared for critically ill COVID ICU patients exclusively. He received his Associate of Science in Nursing (ASN) from Valencia College in 2017, and his Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) from UCF in 2020.
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Educational Health Care Team Members and Course Author Conflict of Interest: There have been no conflicts of interest disclosed by planners, authors, or presenters; nor has there been disclosure of any relevant financial relationships with any commercial companies or their products pertaining to this activity.
Angelina Gallagher, RN, BSN, SRNA
Angelina is a graduate student in the Doctorate of Nurse Anesthesia Practice program at AdventHealth University. Prior to acceptance to the DNAP program she worked as a Registered Nurse for over five years, with more than three years spent in the Intensive Care and Cardiovascular Intensive Care units within the AdventHealth system and as a traveling critical care nurse in Central Florida. While attending nursing school, she gained experience in the healthcare field as a Patient Care Technician on various units within the acute care setting. She received her Associate of Arts degree while gaining her Associate of Science in Nursing Degree from Daytona State College in 2015 as the youngest student in the graduating class. She later returned to earn her Bachelor of Science in Nursing by early 2018, while maintaining her place on the Dean’s List with a 4.0 GPA. During this time, Angelina represented various nursing units on Shared Governance, Professional Practice, and Vascular councils within the AdventHealth system. Concurrently, she was invited to join the Clinical Ladder program and precept nursing students, new nurses, and nurses new to the Florida Hospital/AdventHealth system throughout her career. Angelina became one of the youngest nurses in her facility to be credentialed as a Certified Critical Care Registered Nurse and assisted the Education department in teaching various topics to the staff members over the years.
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Educational Health Care Team Members and Course Author Conflict of Interest: There have been no conflicts of interest disclosed by planners, authors, or presenters; nor has there been disclosure of any relevant financial relationships with any commercial companies or their products pertaining to this activity.
Arun Joseph, RN, BSN, SRNA
Arun went to undergraduate school at the University of Illinois at Chicago where he obtained his Bachelor of Science in Nursing and was on the Dean’s List, an honorary mention for students obtaining a GPA of 3.5 or higher. After graduating in 2017, he worked as a MedSurg and Tele RN at Gottlieb Memorial Hospital, IL, and won a Daisy Award, recommended by his nursing colleagues. After a year, he transitioned to Surgical Cardiac ICU at Advocate Christ Medical Center where he had practice taking care of patients from post-operative ECMO, LVAD/BiVAD insertions, fresh CABG and Valve Replacements, Heart/Lung transplants, Double organ transplants, trauma, and experience in running ACLS codes. He was recognized as the nurse of the month for catching one of his patients having an acute stroke, which lead to the patient being treated within the appropriate timeframe and receiving immediate treatment. After three years of experience, he spent a year as a travel ICU RN during COVID, traveling to states like Texas and Arizona during the peak of infection, and had practice managing ventilators and taking care of ailing patients. In 2021, Arun became a Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist at AdventHealth University in Orlando, Florida, and enjoys learning the different anesthetic management and techniques taught in one of the world’s largest medical centers.
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Educational Health Care Team Members and Course Author Conflict of Interest: There have been no conflicts of interest disclosed by planners, authors, or presenters; nor has there been disclosure of any relevant financial relationships with any commercial companies or their products pertaining to this activity.
Revisioning Author: Jill Mason, EdD, DNAP, MSN, CRNA, APRN, COI, FAANA
Dr. Mason is the Chair/ Program Director for the Doctor of Nurse Anesthesia Program at AdventHealth University in Orlando. She was born in Peoria, Illinois but moved to Sao Paulo, Brazil when she was 12 yrs. old. She became fluent in Portuguese the year she graduated from HS in 1988. After high school, she moved back to the U.S. after graduation where she enlisted into the USAF as an allergy/immunology technician/EMT/medic for 4 years and was stationed at Joint Andrews Base, Maryland, the President’s Air Force Base. After the Gulf War she got off Active Duty and returned to Illinois where she did 2 more years in the Peoria, Illinois Air National Guard unit as a medic. She went to the University of Illinois at Chicago for her BSN degree and worked in the transplant unit at UIC Medical Center as a student nurse. Graduating Cum Laude she went to work at Northwestern Memorial Hospital (Chicago, IL) as an ICU nurse in a Medical Oncology Unit, then MICU, and then in CCU. She began Nurse Anesthesia School in Chicago at a program that started as Ravenswood School of Nurse Anesthesia but graduated as Evanston Northwestern University School of Nurse Anesthesia in 2002. She moved to Greenville, South Carolina where her parents lived, and practiced nurse anesthesia for the next 20 years. She worked the first 10 years in (2) Level I Trauma Centers and became the Nurse Anesthesia Educator at both. She spent the next 10 years in an outpatient surgery center where she worked on getting her DNAP degree and completed in 2015, as well as a Doctor of Education (Ed.D.), which she finished in May 2022. She has served on several state and national committees and was elected President of South Carolina Association of Nurse Anesthetists in 2019-2020. She served on the American Association of Nurse Anesthesiology Government Relations Committee for 3 years and the Journal of the AANA. She has published 5 times and won the SC CRN Research of the Year award.
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*There are no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies for those involved with the ability to control the content of this activity.
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