AARC member since 1975
Chief Executive Officer
Respiratory Support Services
Livingston, TN
AARC Activities:
Appointed Chair LTC Section 2008
Affiliate Activities:
1986-1990 Cumberland Mountain Chapter, TSRC, President 2006 1983-Present Tennessee Society for Respiratory Care Board of Directors 1983-1984 Secretary 1983-1984 Chairman Public Relations Committee 1983-1984 Chairman Adhoc Committee Standards of Care in Long Term Care 1979-1980 Alabama Society for Respiratory Therapy Board of Directors Chairman Election-Committee Chairman Public Relations Committee 1978-Present National Board of Respiratory Care (NBRC)
Related Organizations:
2007-2010 Appointment by Governor Bredesen to Tennessee Board of Respiratory Care ACCP Member 2006-Present 1990-Present Tennessee Association for Home Care
Education:
RRT, Central Piedmont Community College 1978
Publications:
Measured HbCO Levels During Steady State and Repeated Single Breath Diffusion Studies Tar Heel Breath Sounds 1976 N.C. Respiratory Care Journal Perinatal Neonatal Regionalization A View From the Outlying Hospital Respiratory Care, September 1978 Respiratory Care in Rural Health Care Systems AAR TIMES, Editorial December 1983 Respiratory Care With the Prospective Payment System AAR TIMES, Editorial June 1984 Long Term Vent Unit Expands Against Reimbursement Odds Advance for Managers of Respiratory Care
What steps will you take to strengthen international exposure of respiratory care?
As appointed chair in 2008 I reached out to counterparts in the international community and have already received visitors from Bogotá Colombia and Germany who provide ventilator care in a skilled nursing facility setting. I have already submitted proposals for the 2008 Congress to include these international speakers.
How would you suggest we recruit and educate the leaders of the future for the AARC?
In our recruitment efforts we should strive to expose the new recruits to a broad base of practice possibilities that exist. We should strengthen our exposure to both high school students and the counselors who work with them at this level.
With the introduction of the Medicare Respiratory Therapy Initiative Bill in Congress, how are you going to work to get that bill successfully passed?
Continue to press the importance of this issue to legislators.
