Linda J. Kovitch, CRNA, RRT, MSN

Linda Kovitch has earned BS and MSN degrees from Northeastern University, in Boston MA. She worked at Massachusetts General Hospital for 12 years in critical care before becoming licensed as a CRNA since 1991 after graduation from New England Medical Center School of Nurse Anesthesia.

 

Since then she has been a practicing CRNA in Massachusetts in a variety of care settings. In addition, she has been a team member on 13 medical mission trips to Central and South America providing peri-operative anesthesia care to children for the surgical repair of birth defects and traumatic injuries. 

 

Linda is also a Manager in the Clinical Research group at Covidien-Respiratory & Monitoring Division, formerly known as Aspect Medical Systems, Inc. the manufacturer of the Bispectral Index monitor.  She has lectured extensively on brain monitoring, awareness under anesthesia, geriatric anesthesia and anesthesia in the third world.  

Linda is also a past president of the MA Association of Nurse Anesthetists after serving for several years in various other positions and committees within MANA.