Faculty

About the Director

Cormac O'Sullivan, PhD, CRNA, ARNP

Dr. O’Sullivan received his BSN from the University of Iowa in 1987.  After working in a variety of ICU and Level I emergency trauma centers throughout the United States, he attended the Ravenswood Hospital/DePaul University program in Nurse Anesthesia and was named the distinguished graduate in the class of 1996.  He joined the anesthesia department at the University of Iowa in 1996 and served as associate program director for the Anesthesia Nursing Program since 1998.  Dr. O’Sullivan received his PhD in Health Services Policy with a focus on Health Economics from the University of Iowa College of Public Health in 2008.  He was appointed director of the Anesthesia Nursing Program in June of 2009.

About the Associate Director

Ann Willemsen-Dunlap, PhD, CRNA, ARNP

Dr. Ann Willemsen-Dunlap earned her BSN from Grand View College in Des Moines in 1992. She worked for a number of years in the University of Iowa’s Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, graduating from the University of Iowa’s Program in Nurse Anesthesia in 1998. She joined the Anesthesia Department that year and lectured on a variety of topics in the program. She became course director for the pathophysiology course in 2006, and was also named co-director of the Department of Anesthesia’s Simulation Center that year. Dr. Willemsen-Dunlap earned her PhD in Science Education with an emphasis in pathophysiology and measurement in 2005. She was appointed Associate Program Director in July, 2009.

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