Michelle Gonzalez
The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences has hired Michelle Gonzalez, Ph.D., to guide the formation and accreditation of a new nurse anesthesia educational program.
Gonzalez comes to UAMS from the University of Maryland School of Nursing, where she served as an assistant professor and simulation coordinator and performed clinical practice as a certified registered nurse anesthetist at the University of Maryland Medical Center.
Before the program can be established, it must be accredited by the Council on Accreditation of Nurse Anesthesia Educational Programs.
Gonzalez earned her bachelor’s degree in nursing from North Park College in Chicago in 1986. She earned her master’s in nursing from DePaul University, also in Chicago, and concurrently, a diploma in nurse anesthesia in 1998.
Over the next eight years, she earned another bachelor’s degree in Chinese nutrition and a master’s in oriental medicine. In 2016, Gonzalez completed her doctoral degree in educational leadership at Trident University International in Cyprus, California.
She has been a practicing nurse anesthetist since 1998, beginning at Cook County Hospital in Chicago.
Gonzalez continued in that role, working in hospitals and private practice in Illinois, Texas and Maryland, before joining the faculty of the University of Maryland Medical Center in 2010 and the University of Maryland School of Nursing in 2013.
During that time, she also served in the U.S. Navy Reserve’s Department of Anesthesia, rising to the rank of commander and heading up that department.
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