Carl was promoted in March of 2011 to Assistant Manager of the Respiratory Care Department at Harbor View Medical Center in Seattle. He will be inducted as a Fellow of the American Association for Respiratory Care (FAARC) and will be honored as the 2011 Adult Acute Care Specialty Practitioner of the Year at the AARC Congress in Tampa, Florida on November 5th. Carl will also receive the William F Miller Postgraduate Education Recognition Award at the AARC meeting in Tampa. In 2010, he served as President of the Washington Society for Respiratory Care.

Keith was promoted on August 2011 to Director of Clinical Education at Rush University in Chicago. He was appointed to the Rush University Respiratory Therapy Program faculty as an Assistant Professor effective January 2011. Keith is a PhD candidate in Health Sciences with a concentration in Respiratory Care in the Rush University College of Health Sciences. He serves as a member of the Board of Directors for Chapter 2 of the Illinois Society for Respiratory Care. Keith earned his bachelor of science degree in respiratory therapy from Northeastern University. He worked at Boston's Children's Hospital as a respiratory therapist for six years before being appointed to the faculty at Rush University. 

Lois is completing her first year as Educational Coordinator for Respiratory Care Services at Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center in Richmond, Virginia. At the 2011 AARC Congress in Tampa, she will be inducted as a Fellow of the American Association for Respiratory Care (FAARC). Since 2008, Lois has been a member of the AARC Political Action Team providing advocacy for the profession of respiratory therapy at national and state levels. She has delivered lectures on respiratory care locally and at national professional meetings. Lois serves as 2011 President of the Virginia Society for Respiratory Care.

Dan was recently appointed by the Governor of Virginia to the Advisory Board on Respiratory Care. He has served as Virginia Society for Respiratory Care Delegate to the AARC House of Delegates for the last three years where he serves on four House committees.  Dan is actively involved on the AARC International Committee and spent a week in Haiti as part of a disaster relief team following their devastating earthquake. He will receive the NBRC/AMP 2011 Gareth B. Gish, MS, RRT Memorial Postgraduate Education Recognition Award at the AARC Congress in Tampa next November. Dan is a Supervisor of Respiratory Care at the University of Virginia Health System in Charlottesville. He is a Past President of the Virginia Society for Respiratory Care.

After five years as a Senior Respiratory Therapist at the University of Virginia Health System in Charlottesville, Richard has been promoted to Respiratory Therapy Supervisor effective August 2011. He frequently gives lectures on mechanical ventilation to respiratory therapists, medical students, residents and nurse practitioners. Last November Richard and his colleagues had an abstract published in Respiratory Care entitled "Initial experience with registered respiratory therapists placing esophagogastric tubes in adult mechanically ventilated patients." Richard earned his bachelor of science degree in cardiorespiratory sciences from the University of South Alabama.

Cheryl has just completed her first year as Manager of  Respiratory Care at the Naval Hospital at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. She completed her bachelor of science degree in respiratory therapy at Salisbury University in Maryland where she was inducted into the Lambda Beta Honorary Society sponsored by the National Board for Respiratory Care. Cheryl worked as a staff respiratory therapist at the Naval Hospital while completing the masters program at Northeastern University. She finished her degree by September of 2009 and quickly moved into a leadership position as Manager of the department.

Cyndi was appointed in July 2010 as Research Coordinator for the Respiratory Care Division at Cincinnati Childrens Hospital Medical Center. She was named the 2009 Neonatal Pediatric Specialty Practitioner of the Year. In the fall of 2010 she was elected the 2011-2012 Chair of the American Association for Respiratory Care (AARC) Neonatal Pediatric Membership which includes a seat on the AARC Board of Directors. She has received the 2010 Carefusion Research Award for Neonatal Pediatrics. Cyndi was inducted as an Fellow of the American Association for Respiratory Care (FAARC) in December of 2010. She was the recipient in 2010 of the NBRC/AMP Gareth B. Gish, MS, RRT Memorial Postgraduate Education Recognition Award.

Emily is completing her first year as Director of Clinical Education at Ferris State University in Big Rapids, Michigan. She was appointed to the faculty as an Assistant Professor of Respiratory Therapy at the University in the fall of 2010. Emily has been very active in the American Association for Respiratory Care House of Delegates, serving as House Delegate from the Michigan Society for Respiratory Care (MSRC) for seven years during which time she served on four House Committees. She was President of the MSRC in 2007, the year she started her graduate work at Northeastern University. Emily has served on several MSRC committees including 15 years as Chair of the Program Committee.