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Alice Magaw

• “Mother of Anesthesia”

• became the anesthetist for the Mayos at St. Mary’s in Rochester, MN

• First nurse anesthetist to be published with her “Observations in Anesthesia” → she was thought to have perfected ether drop

• While surgeons do their thing, she focused on the pt

Agatha Hodgins

• anesthetist for Dr. George Crile

• WW1 service → trained foreign physicians on use of nitrous-oxygen anesthesia

• Opened Lakeside Hospital SNA and was Director from 1915-1933.

• Transformed Lakeside Alumni group into the NANA, and she was the first President of AANA (name change)

• They can influence practice standards, professional recognition, reimbursement, scope of practice, education, certification, and public awareness.

Florence Henderson

• Worked alongside Hodgins at Mayo

• Preferred ether anesthesia → ether specialist

• Published in medical journals about her ether technique

• Presented her article at a medical conference

  • So the important lesson here is expertise becomes more valuable when it is shared.

Alice Hunt

• Learned open-drop ether technique then picked the skill of using an ether-nitrous blend.

• Appointed as instructor at Yale University School of Medicine in 1922, and then to asst prof in 1930

  • progression from clinician to educator.

• “Mastered nitrous oxide-oxygen anesthesia with closed circuit breathing, as well as avertin, ethylene, and cyclopropane”

Helen Lamb

• Trained at Lakeside School and then worked at Barnes Hospital as a thoracic surgery anesthetist  founded NA school at Barnes and was PD until 1951

• Administered first endotracheal anesthetic in the US and the first successful anesthetic for a pneumonectomy

• Founding member of AANA and served as chair of education committee that developed first standards for schools, served as President

Gertrude Fife

• Trained at Lakeside and was Hodgins' first assistant, then succeeded her as Program Director

• Founding AANA member who served as President

• Published the first AANA Journal and was editor

  • Professional journals allow clinicians to communicate new ideas, research findings, clinical experiences, and professional developments.

  • We need mechanisms for healthcare professionals to share knowledge with one another.

  • And that's how professions develop a collective body of knowledge.

Florence McQuillen

• Clinical work at Mayo Clinic

• Became first AANA Executive Director in 1948 and served until 1970.

• Influential in virtually every area of AANA growth and expansion, including the US government recognition of AANAs authority to grant accreditation for training and certification

  • a profession isn't defined solely by what its practitioners do clinically. It's also defined by education, accreditation, certification standards, regulation, and professional organizations.

  • We have the COA, the Council on Accreditation, the NVCRNA, the National Board of Certification and Recertification of Nurse Anesthetists, and the AANA, the American Association of Nurse Anesthesiology.

  • These systems establish expectations for competence, and they also help protect our patients.

    
    

Mildred Clark

• Joined the Army Nurse Corps in 1938 and then completed anesthesia training at Jewish Hospital in Philadelphia

• Stationed at Schofield Barracks when Pearl Harbor bombing occurred

• She consistently elevated from one leadership post to another, including serving as Procurement Officer for the USSG where she could still recruit nurses even in times of nation-wide shortage

• Was the first CRNA named as Chief of the Army Nurse Corps

• Her career shows that CRNAs have historically served in environments that require significant leadership and adaptability.

• Military healthcare often requires providers to function in resource-limited, high-pressure environments.

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Shoemaker and Olmsted

• CRNAs serving in the Army during the Vietnam War

• Nov 30, 1967 - They were killed in action as a transport plane crashed into a mountain while moving them back to an evac hospital from a forward location

• First male Army Nurse Corps officers to die in war

• Their contributions remind us that our profession has historically extended far beyond a traditional hospital operating room, and these two men paid the ultimate sacrifice.

Anne Mae Beddow

• Attended St. Vincent’s School of Nursing (1st school in AL) then Lakeside School

• While serving in Italy in WW1, she developed the technique for administering thiopental IV for major surgery patients → used well into 20th century

• 1931 - Charter member and 1st President of the Alabama Association of Nurse Anesthetists → 3x pres.

• It's a historical connection to the development and protection of nurse anesthesia practice in Alabama.

Theresa Culpepper

Children’s of Alabama at UAB Hospital

Long-time faculty at UAB, she was a member of the founding faculty at Samford University

Past President of ALANA

President of AANA Foundation

Shannon Scaturro

• Currently COO for Cone Health

• Previously COO USA Health and as Dir of Periop Services at Providence Hospital in Mobile and at St Vincent’s Bham, where he was promoted from chief CRNA to a hospital-wide admin role

• Past President of ALANA  integral in the reimbursement of CRNAs by BCBS of Alabama

• This matters because it shows that CRNAs can influence

Terri Cahoon

• Professor and Chair, Department of Nurse Anesthesia, Moffett & Sanders School of Nursing

• Part of the inaugural faculty at Samford

• Fellow of the American Association of Nurse Anesthesiology (FAANA)

• AANA Foundation Advocate & contributing editor

• Clinical practice at St. Vincent's and Brookwood Medical Center

• Eventually, some of you may find yourselves on the other side of this classroom and you may become clinical educators, faculty members, program directors, researchers, or academic leaders.

Brad Hooks

• ALANA President, 2025-26

• ALANA State Reimbursement Chair

• Faculty at UM

• pain management fellow

• Former owner of a pain service in Montgomery, AL

• They can be an educator, they can be a professional leader, and they can also be in the business of anesthesia with a practice ownership.

• Your career can evolve.

David Gay

• ALANA Federal Political Director for AANA

• Past President of AANA

• Works clinically at Providence Hospital

• He also maintains clinical practice in South Alabama at Providence Hospital, so y'all will likely run into him in clinic if you haven't ever met him before now.

• He brings clinical experience into the policy environment.

• And that's exactly the type of perspective healthcare policy needs.

• Legislators don't understand what we do every day.

• They need someone that can explain to them what a CRNA is and how we can provide safe anesthesia care for our patients so that we can then advocate for our profession.

• Legislators and policymakers make decisions that affect how we practice, how patients access anesthesia, how providers are reimbursed, and how healthcare systems are structured.

• If clinicians aren't involved in those conversations, other people will make decisions for us.

ALANA PAC

• This is important because most CRNAs are in the OR while legislative decisions are being made that can affect our practice.

• And our professional PACs main purpose is to protect our practice so that we can keep taking care of our patients.