Board of Directors

Kathy Puglise, MSN/ED, RN, CRNI®
President

Kathy has more than 26 years of nursing experience, which includes emergency care, critical care, and infusion nursing. She is an entrepreneur in the area of home infusion and one of the original founders of HomeChoice Partners, Inc.

Kathy is currently Vice President of Infusion Nursing at Bioscrip, Inc., which allows her to participate actively in evidence-based practice and promote educational awareness to healthcare clinicians.

 

Britt Meyer, MSN, RN, CRNI®, VA-BC
President-Elect

Britt Meyer is nurse manager of the Vascular Access Team at Duke ­University Hospital in North ­Carolina. Britt has served in several roles with INS including the National Council on Education, the National Nursing Network, and the JIN Editorial Review Board. Britt is currently working on a doctoral nursing degree with a focus on determining the correlation between infusion specialty education and access device complication rates.
 

Jeanette Adams, PhD, RN, ACNS,BC, CRNI®
Presidential Advisor

Jeanette has been a registered nurse in infusion nursing for over 30 years. She has experience in a variety of areas, including clinical nurse specialist, academia, research, and management and supervision in acute and home care settings. She has been involved with INS for many years and has served in various roles, including most recently on the National Council on Education and Journal of Infusion Nursing Editorial Review Board. She is actively involved in research and is a speaker nationally and internationally. Currently, Jeanette is a visiting professor at the North Dakota College of Nursing. 

Marvin Siegel, RN, CRNI® 
Secretary-Treasurer
2010-2012

Marvin has been a registered nurse since 1975 and attended his first PICC training in 1992 . He has been involved in home infusion therapy since 1993. He obtained his CRNI® in 2001. He is currently the Director of Nursing for Town Total Health, a homecare company located in mid-town Manhattan. He was president of the Metro-Island, NY, INS chapter from 2002 to 2004. In 2003 he was named INS Chapter President of The Year. He is currently on the Editorial Review Board of the Journal of Infusion Nursing.

Angie Sims, RN, CRNI®, OCN®
Director-at-Large
2012-2014

Angie is an Infusion Therapy Staff Nurse in Oregon. She has served on the INS PICC Module Revision Task and as President of the Lower Columbia INS Chapter. She  received the 2010 INS Chapter President of the Year Award.

 

Laurie Groesbeck, BS, RN, CRNI®, CRRN
Director-at-Large
2011-2013

Laurie has been an RN since 1993 and earned her bachelor’s degree in Medical Case Management from Davenport University in 2007. She is currently the manager of nursing services for Complete Infusion Services in Livonia, Michigan. She earned her certification in rehabilitation (CRRN) in 1995 and served on the Michigan Chapter ARN Board of Directors for six years. She obtained her CRNI® in 2004. In 2009 she was named CRNI® of the Year by INCC and Chapter President of the Year by INS. She has served the last six years on the INS Great Lakes Chapter board. She is currently a member of the PAC for United Home Health Care in Canton, Michigan.

Mary Alexander, MA, RN, CRNI®, CAE, FAAN
Chief Executive Officer
Ex-officio member

As Chief Executive Officer of the Infusion Nurses Society (INS), Mary Alexander is responsible for the management of an international, nonprofit specialty nursing organization of over 7,000 members by ensuring consistent delivery of professional services to members. As Editor of the Journal of Infusion Nursing, a scientific, research-based, peer-reviewed publication, Ms. Alexander writes bimonthly columns for the Journal and has editorial responsibilities for a bimonthly membership newsletter, INS Newsline. She is an editor of the Core Curriculum for Infusion Nursing (3rd edition) and Editor-in-Chief of the new, revised INS textbook, Infusion Nursing: An Evidence-Based Approach. She is also responsible for the credentialing program of the Infusion Nurses Certification Corporation. 

 

 

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