Meet the Nominating & Leadership Development Committee
AORN members may ask the Nominating & Leadership Development Committee questions via email.
Donna A. Ford, RN-BC, MSN, CNOR - Chair
Donna is a Nursing Education Specialist in the Division of Surgical Services- Department of Nursing at Mayo Clinic and an Assistant Professor of Nursing- College of Medicine at Mayo Clinic. Donna has practiced perioperative nursing for twenty five years, seven years as a staff registered nurse and eighteen years as an perioperative educator. Donna has been certified in perioperative nursing for eighteen years and board certified in nursing professional development for three years.
Donna is actively involved in AORN at the chapter level and national level. Donna is serving her second year as a member of the Nominating Committee and is currently serving as the chair. Donna was also a member of the Practice Issues Task Force (2004-2005) that developed a guidance statement for the Perioperative Care of the Patients with an Implanted Electronic Device. Donna also served two terms on the Congress Education Planning Committee (2004-2005 and 2005-2006). Also within AORN, Donna is also a member of the Educator/ Clinical Nurse Specialist and Leadership Specialty Assemblies. Donna’s additional professional association memberships include Sigma Theta Tau, National Nurses in Staff Development Organization, Minnesota Sate Council of Perioperative Nurses and an affiliate membership in the American Nurses Association.
In addition to possessing expertise in perioperative nursing practice, Donna works with leadership development, recruitment and retention strategies, promotion of health careers and perioperative nursing with high school students, college students and nursing students. Donna has presented on the topics of patient safety, prevention of surgical site infection and perioperative hypothermia and she has published on topics related to staff education, aseptic technique, and prevention of perioperative hypothermia.
Callie Craig, RN, BSN, MS, CNOR
Callie is the surgery clinical nurse manager and perioperative educator at INTEGRIS Baptist Medical Center in Oklahoma City. She received her BSN from the University of Arkansas and her MS in nursing administration and management from the University of Oklahoma Health Science Center.
She is a member of the INTEGRIS Baptist Medical Center magnet steering committee, infection control committee, nursing excellence council, and physician-nurse liaison committee. She is also the co-chair of the INTEGRIS nurse recruitment and retention team.
Callie is the vice-president of the Central Oklahoma Chapter of AORN and the vice-president of the Oklahoma State Council of Perioperative Nurses. She received the 2006 Nursing Impact on Public Policy Award from the Oklahoma Nurses Association and the 2008 AORN Next Generation Achievement Award. She has presented numerous programs and posters on evidence-based practice in the operating room.
Kevin J. Metzing, RN, BS, CNOR
Kevin was born in NYC and moved to Orlando nearly twenty years ago after teaching school in Micronesia and working in several hotels in Manhattan. He has a degree in Business Administration and later completed nursing school in Florida. He is the seventh nurse in his family. He has worked at Florida Hospital since 1991 and is presently the Administrative Assistant Nurse Manager in the OR, as well as a Surgical Coordinator for the Kidney Transplant Team.
Kevin has been active in AORN on the local, state and national level for the last 12 years. He has served as chapter president and twice as chapter treasurer, and he has served on the nominating, bylaws, education, ways & means, and newsletter committees for Action Center of Central Florida. He has been chair of the Nominating Committee for FCORN as well as vice chair and treasurer for that organization. He has been co-chair several times for the FCORN Education and Industry Seminars. On the national level he has been chair of the Membership Committee, Congress 2007 Volunteer Coordinator, chair of the 2008 Congress Education Committee, and a member of the Governing Council for the Leadership Specialty Assembly.
Kevin is active with the SHARES Foundation at his hospital and is a member of its surgical mission team. He has traveled twice to Merida on the Yucatan peninsula in Mexico to help perform cleft lip and cleft palate procedures at Gen. O'Horan Public Hospital, and hopes to make a trip later this year with the team to Peru.
Karen B. Moser, RN, BSN, CNOR
Karen Moser has been an operating room nurse for 33 of her 34 years in nursing. She received her bachelor of science degree in nursing from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI. Her professional experiences include staff nurse, army national guard -operating room staff nurse, cardio-thoracic coordinator, and OR nurse manager. Ms. Moser is currently the clinical nurse educator at the William S. Middleton Veteran’s Administration Hospital in Madison, WI.
She has been a member of AORN since 1980 and currently serves as president of the Madison Chapter of AORN and also is the legislative representative for region 3. She also represents perioperative nurses as a member of the Wisconsin Nursing Coalition.
Ms. Moser was a member of the Ergonomic Safety Task Force which developed the AORN Guidance Statement: Safe Patient Handling and Movement in the Perioperative Setting and presented this information at the 2006 National Safety conference.
Maureen Pennington, CAPT, NC, USN, RN, BSN, MSN, CNOR
Capt Pennington has 22 years of nursing experience, with 19 of those years in Perioperative nursing. She received a BSN degree in 1986 from Saint Joseph’s College, Maine, the same year she began her Naval Career.
Following her Newport duty Captain Pennington was accepted into the Navy’s Perioperative Training Course. Completing training she reported to Naval Medical Center Portsmouth, VA. During this assignment she deployed for 8 months on the USNS Comfort TAH-20 in support of Operation Desert Storm/Desert Shield. During this deployment, she developed the skills required for operational medicine and her passion for working within the multinational healthcare system. Over the next 7 years she was accepted for annual volunteer missions with Operation Smile to third world countries providing healthcare to children. While assigned in Virginia she completed her Masters of Nursing Administration at Old Dominion University in 1995.
Her follow on tours were: Naval Hospital Sigonella, Italy as Department Head of Main Operating Room, Naval Hospital 29 Palms, CA as Department Head of Primary Care and Naval Medical Center San Diego, as Department Head Main Operating Room and Senior Nurse, Directorate Medical Services. During Commander Pennington’s assignment at Naval Medical Center she volunteered for assignment and deployment to Iraq as Company Commander of Charlie Health Services Company 1st Medical Battalion, 1st MLG(fwd).
Pennington is President-elect of the San Diego Chapter of AORN and serves of the Federal Nurses Specialty Assembly. She is the recipient of the Bronze Star, 3 Navy Commendation Medals, 2 Navy Achievement Medals, the Combat Action Medal and various other ribbons and campaign medals. Civilian awards to include 2007 Minerva Award presented by First Lady Maria Shriver for service during Operation Iraqi Freedom and 7 world wide humanitarian medical missions and the Spirit of the Immortal chaplains Award presented to individuals who exemplify the spirit of compassion for others regardless of difference in faith or ethnicity.
Susan Banschbach, RN, MSN, CNOR - Advisor
Banschbach has 40 years of perioperative experience in staff and management positions. Currently her responsibilities include the administration of surgical services for 38 operating rooms, including an eight room ambulatory surgery center; endoscopy; PACU; a four room freestanding endoscopy; outpatient admit-discharge department; central processing; anesthesia; and perfusion at Saint Francis Hospital in Tulsa, OK. Before joining the staff at Saint Francis, Banschbach worked at hospitals in Shreveport, La; Madison, Wisc; Radford, Va; and Boston, MA. She received a diploma in nursing from Geisinger Medical Center in Danville, PA, her BSN from Oklahoma Wesleyan University, and her MSN from the University of Oklahoma. Banschbach is past chair of the Oklahoma Council of Perioperative Nurses, past chair of the National Membership Committee, and past chair of the Leadership Specialty Assembly. She has spoken locally, nationally and internationally on many perioperative subjects, including management, strategic planning, case management, endoscopy, conflict in the perioperative arena, nurse-physician collaboration and professional career development.
Banschbach was the 2008-2009 AORN President.