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2025 Spring Conference Speakers                                     

Eric Kramer, DNAP, CRNA, FNP-C

Graduated from Case Western Reserve with his MSN and CRNA degrees (2010). After working in Ohio for a few years, his family moved to Mexico in 2014, where he provided full-service anesthesia for an isolated mission hospital for 5 years. During that time he filled various roles, including hospitalist covering inpatient adults and pediatrics, ER, labor and delivery, a tuberculosis clinic, interim medical director, and developing an ICU and critical care flight medevac program.
In 2017 he obtained his FNP-C from Case Western to expand his capabilities. In 2019 Dr. Kramer and his family moved back to Ohio. He obtained his doctorate from Missouri State in 2019 and joined the National University's DNAP program in 2020.
Dr. Kramer’s areas of interest include point-of-care ultrasound, austere mission medicine, and establishing full clinical rotations for RRNAs at mission hospitals around the world.

Joshua Olson, DNP, CRNA

Joshua Olson is assistant professor and assistant program director at the University of Detroit Mercy’s nurse anesthesia program. He serves as the chair of the Program Committee for the Michigan Association of Nurse Anesthetists, and he also maintains a clinical practice at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit. Dr. Olson is currently completing 3 separate research projects on the use of artificial intelligence in CRNA education, and his recent work: Using Simulation Training to Reduce Skill Decay Among Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists was published in the Journal of Continuing Education in Nursing. He lives in the city of Detroit with his wife and four children. 

Dr. Collins serves as chair of the nurse anesthesia steering committee for Health Volunteers Overseas, on the Editorial Committee of the AANA Journal, on the administrative committee for Adventist Health International, and has served on the NBCRNA CPC and NCE Committees. Dr. Collins has published over 30 peer-reviewed articles and is first author of a chapter in the 5^th edition of Nurse Anesthesia (Hepatobiliary anesthesia) and a chapter on Nurse Anesthesia Program Admissions in A Resource for Nurse Anesthesia Educators. He has led numerous service-learning mission trips in developing countries.

Dr. Collins served as the director of the WCU anesthesia program for many years, having fulfilled roles as faculty, assistant director and then director.
He currently serves as the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Graduate Programs in the School of Nursing at Loma Linda University in Loma Linda, California.

Rebecca Sullivan, DNAP, CRNA

Rebecca Sullivan is the founder of Summit Anesthesia Seminars, LLC, a CRNA-focused educational company. Dr Sullivan is a staff CRNA and Anesthesia Department Educational Coordinator at Independence Health System, located in Greensburg, PA. Rebecca is an adjunct professor at Herbert W. Boyer School of Natural Sciences, Mathematics, and Computing at St Vincent College in Latrobe, PA. She also serves as a guest lecturer and mentor for Excela Health School of Anesthesia DNAP program. In her spare time, she enjoys exploring national parks with her husband, children, and two English mastiffs.

Stacy Yancey, MSNA, CRNA

is a passionate advocate for the nurse anesthesiology profession. She is also an amateur historian and political scientist, having earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in History with a minor in political science from Winthrop University. She later earned a BSN from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and her MSNA from Wake Forest University School of Medicine Nurse Anesthesia Program.  She has served as the President of the North Carolina Association of Nurse Anesthetists and currently serves as the AANA Region 4 Director.