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Program Director and Department Chair
Dr. Larson estimates that during the last 28 years, she has administered anesthesia to over 15,000 patients undergoing cardiac, thoracic or major vascular surgery. Dr. Sandra Larson received her BSN from the University of Illinois, her MS in Nurse Anesthesia from Rush University, and her PhD in Public Policy Analysis from the University of Illinois. She is passionate about cardiac anesthesia, safety in anesthesia, teaching, research, and the profession of nurse anesthesia.  
 
Dr. Larson is a former CRNA Director of Cardiovascular Anesthesia Services at Provena St. Joseph Medical Center, Joliet, Illinois, and clinical instructor for the Northshore University Health System School of Nurse Anesthesia.  She has served as a Team On-Site Reviewer for the Council on Accreditation of Nurse Anesthesia Educational Programs, and as Chairman of the Illinois Association of Nurse Anesthetists Government Relations Committee.
 
Dr. Larson is distinguished to be the first nurse anesthetist to be listed as a lead author for research published in the Journal of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Anesthesia, and is a published researcher with the American Association of Nurse Anesthetist’s ongoing Closed Claims Study of safety in anesthesia. Dr. Larson joined the team at Anesthesia Abstracts in 2010, and focuses predominantly on research in the area of cardiovascular and thoracic anesthesia.
 
Dr. Larson's background in policy studies resulted in her scientifically investigating how the AANA and the ASA lobbied to influence the outcome of the proposed federal regulation dealing with CRNA scope-of-practice that ultimately culminated in the development of the opt-out regulation. For nurse anesthetists and anesthesiologists Dr. Larson’s research documents an important aspect of each profession’s history.  Her research also contributes new knowledge to the social science literature on how professions develop. 
    
 
Assistant Program Director, Director of Curriculum
Ali Tabatabai has been a CRNA for 7 years.  He received his BSN from Loyola University Chicago in 1999 and his MSN from Rush University in 2003.  Prior to this, he attended Emory University in 1995 and worked as an Anesthesiologist’s Assistant. Ali received the AANA Foundation Scholarship from the Illinois Association of Nurse Anesthetists in 2002. 

He has been a part-time didactic instructor for the Rosalind Franklin University Nurse Anesthesia since 2008, and areas of teaching include chemistry/physics and pharmacology.  He has also worked as a clinical preceptor for students from the NorthShore University Health System School of Nurse Anesthesia.
 
 
Jay Tumulak Assistant Program Director, Director of Clinical Education 
 
Jay Tumulak has only been a CRNA for a little over two years but his passion for the profession resonates both in the academic and clinical field.  He earned his Masters Degree from DePaul University in 2008, the same year he finished Nurse Anesthesia from Northshore University Health System (formerly Evanston Northwestern Healthcare).  Currently Jay is working on his DNP (Doctor of Nursing Practice) at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee.

Jay joined the faculty at Rosalind Franklin University in the summer of 2009, and has been mentoring students both in the classroom and during simulation exercises.
 
 
 

 
 
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