Newly Elected Board Members
The newly elected board members will be starting their terms October 2024.
Dr. Dawn Bent has been an anesthesia provider for over 20 years and has been an anesthesia educator for over 15 years. Dr. Bent currently serves as Program Director at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia where she oversees didactic education, including the basics of anesthesia, inhalational agents, anesthesia pharmacology, basic and advanced monitoring, and pediatric content. Additionally, Dr. Bent serves on the Board of Trustees for the Pennsylvania Association for Nurse Anesthetists as the Chair for the Membership Engagement Committee and a member of the Communications Committee. Dr. Bent is a Certificant-Elected Director (CED) member of the NBCRNA Board of Directors.
Dr. Sara Myers practices anesthesia at Truman Medical Centers in Kansas City, MO and is a clinical instructor and Professor for the Truman Medical Center School of Nurse Anesthesia. Dr. Myers earned a BA from the University of Kansas, a BSN from Creighton University, and her DNP from the University of Missouri Kansas City. She has volunteered on a variety of national committees and panels, including the Medical Missions Foundation Board of Directors (2023-present), the NBCRNA Board of Directors Emerging Leader Fellow (2020-2022), and the AANA Practice Committee (2017-2020). Sara enjoys participating in at least one medical mission trip annually.
Dr. Benoit Blondeau, MD, MBA, FACS is the surgeon member of the NBCRNA board. He obtained his PhD from the Faculté de Médecine de Tours, France and did his fellowship in surgical critical care at the University of Connecticut. He has served in various positions over the past 15 years, in both administrative and leadership capacities. He served as an Associate Professor of Surgery and Palliative Care, and the Trauma Medical Director at the University of New Mexico and is currently the Chair for the Department of Surgery at HealthPartners in Minnesota. He also works with the Minnesota Chapter of the American College of Surgeons, where he serves as a Site Reviewer for the Commission on Cancer, and as the Vice Chair Committee on Trauma.