Deborah Geisler, CRNA, MHSA
Ms. Geisler received her BS in Nursing from the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill in 1975, her certificate of Nurse Anesthesia at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston in 1980. In 1987, she earned a Masters of Health Services Administration from the same institution.
She has a varied clinical practice background: as an educator, a private practitioner, and as a staff anesthetist at a Level I Trauma Center, where she was employed for 22 years. She was actively involved with student nurse anesthesia education for over 14 years as the clinical coordinator for the two SC nurse anesthesia programs at their clinical rotation site at Greenville Memorial Hospital. Currently, she is a private practitioner in Ponte Vedra, Florida providing anesthesia services for hospitals and surgery centers in the surrounding area.
Throughout her professional career, she has been an active leader for our profession on the state and national level. While in South Carolina, she held numerous officer positions on the Board of Directors including the office of president for the South Carolina Association of Nurse Anesthetist. On the national level, she was elected and served as a member of the American Association of Nurse Anesthetists Board of Directors from 1996-2002. She completed her term as President of the AANA in August 2002