AARC member since 1976
Director, Respiratory Care Services
Upstate Medical University
Syracuse, NY
AARC Activities:
American Association for Respiratory Care (AARC). AARC Board of Directors 1997-1998,2003-2008. AARC Spe.Committee.for Roundtable Development: Hyperbaric Oxygenation: Co-Chair 2001. AARC Special Committee for Public Interest,Member 2002. AARC Clinical Practice Guideline Steering Committee, Member 1999-2000. AARC Respiratory Care Geriatrics Committee, Member 1999-2008. AARC Education Committee, Member 1999-2000. AARC Membership Committee, Member 2000-2001. AARC Transition Committee, 1999-2001. AARC Taskforce on Organizational Restructuring, Committee Member 1995-1997. AARC Board of Directors, Executive Committee, Member, 1998. AARC Special Representative CSLI Point of Care Testing Committee 2005-2008. AARC Special Representative American Association for Critical Care Nurses 2003-2008. AARC Management Section Newsletter Editor or Co- Editor 2003-2007. AARC Subacute Section Newsletter Editor 2003-2006
House of Delegates Activities:
House of Delegates NYSSRC Delegate to AARC House of Delegates 1994-1995, 1997,2002-03 NYSSRC Alternate Delegate to AARC House of Delegates 1992-1993, 1996. Speaker, House of Delegates 1997 Speaker Elect, House of Delegates 1996 Past Speaker, House of Delegates 1998. AARC House of Delegates, Chair, Credentials Committee 1998 AARC House of Delegates, Chair Ad Hoc Comm. on Delegate Funding 1995-1996 AARC House of Delegates, Chair Progress and Transition Committee 1994-1995. AARC House of Delegates Progress and Transition Committee, Member 1993
Affiliate Activities:
NYSSRC Treasurer 1991,1999-2001 NYSSRC Political Action Committee Treasurer 1991-2008 CNYCNYSSRC Past President 1994-1995 CNYCNYSSRC President 1991-1993 CNYCNYSSRC President-Elect 1990. NYSSRC Board of Directors, Executive Committee 1994-1997,1999-2003 NYSSRC Board of Directors 1990-1997,1999-2003. NYSSRC Awards Committee Chair 1993-2000 NYSSRC Budget and Audit Committee, Chair 1991, 1999-2001 NYSSRC Political Advocacy Contact Team Co-Chair 2000-2006 NYSSRC Judicial Committee Chair 1992-1997 NYSSRC Symposium Committee Chair 1992,1998 NYSSRC AD Hoc Progress and Transition Committee Chair 1994-1998,2006-2008 NYSSRC Budget and Audit Committee 1994-1997, 2002-2003 NYSSRC Symposium Committee Member 1995,1996 NYSSRC Nominating Committee Member 1990-1991 NYSSRC Election Committee Member 1992-1993. NYSSRC Special Appointment Liaison to NYS Department of Health Review Title VIII Coalition 1995-2005 NYSSRC Special Appt. NYS Dept. of Health Utilization Review Comm.1995-2005
Education:
State University of New York at Cortland, Cortland, New York 1992-1998 MSEd Thesis Complete, August, 1998 State University of New York at Cortland, Cortland, New York 1988-1992 Bachelors of Science in Economics and Management Science, Conferred, Summa Cum Laude. Respiratory Therapy Program, Upstate Medical Center, Syracuse, New York 1972-1974 Associates in Applied Science Degree, Conferred, Honors. RRT 1975
Publications:
Contributing Author: Respiratory Care: Principle and Practice Hess, D., MacIntyre, N., Mishoe, S., Galvin, W., and Adams, A.,W.B. Saunders Fall, 2001 Contributing Author: Respiratory Care: Mathews, P. and Wyka, K Delmar, 2001 Masters Thesis: Effects of Abstinence on the Success of Smoking Cessation Education Programs State University of New York at Cortlan 1998 Contributing Author: Manual of Pediatric Respiratory Care Procedures Blodgett. 1981 Chapters on Oxygen and Aerosol Therapy in Children and Infants.
What steps will you take to strengthen international exposure of respiratory care?
I would move toward more ease in conversion of publications to other languages so that our leadership position as the respiratory care profession's guiding force is easier to understand for those in the world not fluent in English. We should work towards providing additional AARC Fellows positions each year. These positions have proven that they provide the framework for the growth in our stature as a profession in a world where our structure of care using respiratory therapists is different in the U.S. compared to most other countries. I would work towards more exchange of speakers for respiratory care educational topics with other countries using the vast wealth of talent we have in our profession, many of whom are multi-lingual.
How would you suggest we recruit and educate the leaders of the future for the AARC?
We must bridge the gaps in communications and mentoring across the three generations we have in our profession today. This includes media, communications methods and old fashion one-to-one mentoring. Approaches to mentoring are somewhat different today, however what remains the same is early identification and mentoring of new professionals in our field. At the same time, we must provide talented individuals from the management and education venues to work closely with these individuals on terms and with methods that they identify with. The most senior members of our profession have a vast wealth of knowledge and experience that must be brought to bear on our profession as the future is being determined by our present actions. We must devote our time and energy to grow our future leaders as many of us have been nurtured by former leaders.
With the introduction of the Medicare Respiratory Therapy Initiative Bill in Congress, how are you going to work to get that bill successfully passed?
As a former Co-Chair for the PACT Team in New York I will continue to work with local and national groups to support the legislation through visits and correspondence to legislators. I will target leaders of the committees of jurisdiction such as Ways and Means, Commerce and Energy and Finance. Even though I am from New York, the Senators and Representatives of these Committees hold the keys to the passage of this important legislation. I have learned through licensure activities that the movement out of the main committees is always the key to the passage of legislation. These key players will mean the movement of our bill forward to passage into law.
