Student Corner
MANA STUDENT REPRESENTATIVE
STEPHANIE DUNBAR has been selected as the 2007 student representative to the Board. Welcome to the Board, Stephanie!
Stephanie Dunbar is a 2002 graduate of the University of Maryland School of Nursing. Before starting anesthesia school at the University of Maryland she was an emergency/trauma nurse and a cardiac ICU/SICU nurse at Johns Hopkins Bayview and Johns Hopkins Hospital. She will graduate in 2008.
STUDENT REPRESENTATIVE'S REPORT
This year, 40 students from the University of Maryland Nurse Anesthesia Program attended the annual AANA meeting held in Denver, Colorado. The conference agenda included the annual banquet welcoming the incoming AANA President, Wanda Wilson CRNA, PhD, and other AANA officials; the Party with a Purpose, a student breakfast, and a student luncheon. A special thanks to the many sponsors of these events. Soo-Ok Kim was selected to participate in the much anticipated and challenging College Bowl, and her team won first place (to include a victory over the CRNA team). Way to go Soo-Ok! We hope to see everyone next year in Minneapolis. It was a wonderful experience and a good time was had by all.
It’s a pleasure to announce that this December, the University of Maryland Nurse Anesthesia Program will hold their second annual graduation for the class of 2007. On behalf of the 2008 and 2009 classes, we wish to congratulate the class of 2007 for all of their hard work and dedication. Above all, this is a class of very talented mentors, and their support of the program helped foster an environment that better prepared the class of 2008 for the clinical experience. Thank you and we wish you well in your future careers as practicing anesthetists.
Thanks to all of the clinical sites that work diligently with the school to facilitate our learning process. Current clinical sites for the University of Maryland Nurse Anesthesia Program are Sinai Hospital, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, University of Maryland Medical Center, R. Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, Saint Agnes Hospital, Upper Chesapeake Hospital, Baltimore VA Medical Center, Washington DC VA Medical Center, Kernan Hospital, Union Memorial Hospital, Franklin Square Hospital, Washington County Hospital, and Southern Maryland Hospital.