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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

 

Professor Kirsner came to FGCU in 2006 as the founding director of the Nurse Anesthesia Program. His basic nursing education was obtained at the University of Miami where he received his BSN in 1979. He continued with his education at the State University of New York at Buffalo, where he received his anesthesia certificate in 1983 and his MS(Nursing) in 1985. In 1987 he returned to the University of Miami where he served as Symposium Editor of the University of Miami Law Review and received his JD (cum laude) in 1990.

 

Professor Kirsner began his career as an emergency department and medical intensive care unit nurse at Jackson Memorial / University of Miami Medical Center. After completing his anesthesia training he returned there as a nurse anesthetist. He practiced as a trial attorney for the National Labor Relations Board before beginning his academic career in nurse anesthesia at the University of Kansas. He served as Program Director for the Nurse Anesthesia Program at Baylor College of Medicine and also worked as a clinician at Ben Taub General Hospital and The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas.

 

Professor Kirsner has served as an editorial board member, book review section editor and editorial committee member of the American Association of Nurse Anesthetists Journal. His publications include articles in the legal and anesthesia literature; he has authored book chapters, including co-authoring a chapter in The Chemistry of Drugs for Nurse Anesthetists. His presentations include state and national and international meetings including 6 presentations at AANA Annual Meetings. He has also presented before the Swedish Association of Nurse Anesthetists and the World Congress for Nurse Anesthetists in Helsinki.

 

Outside of work Professor Kirsner enjoys running (having run 4 marathons), training in martial arts (he is a black belt in the Chayon-Ryu martial arts style), hiking, scuba diving (he is a NAUI divemaster) and kayaking, which he does from his home in Fort Myers. He also enjoys studying nature and enjoys reading books of all kinds. 

Mr. Geisler received his BS in Nursing from the College of St. Teresa, Winona Minnesota in 1979, his certificate of Nurse Anesthesia at the Mayo Clinic in 1984.

 

He has a varied clinical practice background, which includes tenure with the Mayo Clinics at Rochester and Jacksonville. He is an avid educator having taught for 20 years. In recognition of his contributions to education, he holds an appointment as an Instructor of Anesthesiology, Mayo Medical School.

 

While at the Mayo Clinic Jacksonville, he served as Chief Anesthetist for 7 years. He was integral in the planning and execution of the anesthesia component for the largest Liver Transplant Program in the country.

 

In 1998 he was the recipient of the AANA "Clinical Anesthesia Practitioner of the Year" Award.

 

In the professional arena, he has served on the AANA Board of Directors as Regional Director, as Chair of the Practice Committee and as a member of the Program Committee. While in Minnesota, he also served as Mayor of his city of residence.