AALNA’s Advisory Council
The advisory council is to help guide AALNA Board of Directors on new trends, technology, educational needs in Assisted Living and other things that are seen in Assisted Living industry that we should be working on for our membership. We anticipate the advisory council will attend AALNA board calls quarterly.
Advisory Council Members
- Stan Szpytek – Fire and Life Safety, Assisted Living Incident Command ~ firemashal10@aol.com
- Steve Wilder – Active Shooter, Site Vulnerability/Security ~ swilder@swa4safety.com
- Rebecca Adelman – Attorney ~ Rebecca@adelmanfirm.com
- Burton Korer – Pharmacy ~ Bkorer@kormanhealthcare.com
- Dr. Kevin O’Neil, MD – Physician ~ koneil@affinitylivinggroup.com
- Victor Lane Rose, MBA, NHA, FCCP, CPASRM – ECRI Institute ~ vrose@ecri.org
- John Schulte – Argentum ~ jschulte@argentum.org
- Ara Sayabalin ~ drara@sayabalian.com – TotalDry
- Dr. Sara Elizabeth Hamm, DNP, RN – Lifespace Communities ~ sara.hamm@lifespacecommunities.com
- Angie Fleenor – Consultant ~ angielfleenor@gmail.com
- Maria D, Moen – ADVault, Inc. ~ MMoen48@gmail.com
- LuAnne Leistner – Senior Director Clinical Policies and Programs at Brookdale Senior Living ~ lleistner@brookdale.com
- Juli Navarette – Vice President Clinical Practice – Sunrise Senior Living ~ juli.navarrete@sunriseseniorliving.com
- Melissa Batchelor, PhD, RN, FNP, FGSA, FAAN ~ MelissaBPhD@gwu.edu
- Scott E. Augenbaum – Author/Speaker/Trainer – CyberSecureMindset – scott@cybersecuremindset.com
Committees
- Certification Committee: Revise our AL certification exam and consider updating self-paced webinar. Board Member Liaisons – Loretta Kaes, Sheri Easton Garrett and Margo Kunze
- Membership Committee: work on recruiting state leaders, chapters news and update board on issues in state or news for members. Board Member Liaison – Deb Choma
- Marketing Committee Conference: work on marketing ideas for AALNA news, membership and conference. Board Member Liaisons – Calvin Groeneweg, Terri Berrigan
- Nurse Competency/Education Committee: work on education for members from conference to webinars and providing ideas on nurse competency updates to members. Board Member Liaisons – LuAnne Leistner, JoAnne Carlin
- Media Committee: work on keeping updates on website, linked-in and other social media. Board Member Liaison– Margo Kunze
Deb Choma will seek additional support from State Leaders on each committee and we can ask our members via e-blast to help support these committee contract Deb or Calvin Calvin@alnursing.org