Leadership for 2011-2012
Board of Directors
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President
Leo LeBel, CRNA, APRN,M.Ed,JD
Leo A. Le Bel, a retired Army Nurse Corps (ANC) officer, received his anesthesia education at Walter Reed Army Medical Center (1967) and later served tours of duty in Vietnam, Europe and various U.S. military posts. Since 1990, he has practiced in CT. Currently, he is a staff anesthetist at Griffin Hospital in Derby, Connecticut.
Leo has held a variety of positions in both the military and civilian sectors. These include clinical, administrative, and academic positions in hospitals ranging from rural community facilities to level-one trauma centers. He has been an independent anesthesia provider; consultant; instructor in both clinical and didactic settings; director of two nurse anesthesia educational programs; and a staff member of the American Association of Nurse Anesthetists (AANA).
He has served on two anesthesia journal editorial boards, published in various journals, textbooks, and trade publications, and been involved in clinical research. He has served as a committee member or officer in numerous local, state, and national professional organizations, including positions as AANA Regional Director, AANA national Vice-President and, currently, is a member of the AANA Foundation Board of Trustees and the editorial review board of the AANA Journal. He is also co-owner of a Connecticut healthcare consulting company with his wife, Theresa, who is also an RN and a Licensed Nursing Home Administrator. They have two children, Christine and Robert.
On the state level, he has served as Vice-President of the Connecticut Association of Nurse Anesthetist (CANA) and on committees of both CANA and the CT Chapter of the American Association of Nurse Attorneys (CT-TAANA). Leo’s service to the Connecticut Nurses Association (CNA) has included more than 15 years as a member of the Government Relations Committee (GRC), member and chair of the CT Nurses Political Action Committee (CN-PAC), and service on Convention Planning and other committees. He has been a CNA Diamond Jubilarian and was nominated for the American Nurses Association (ANA) 2010 Luther Christman Award. Leo has been an ANA member since 1965.
He obtained his diploma in nursing in 1965 from Sacred Heart Hospital School of Nursing (Manchester, NH), his BSN degree from St. Anselm College (NH, 1972), his M.Ed. degree from Boston University (1973), and his JD degree from Seattle University (1987).
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Vice President
Nigel Rodney
Nigel Rodney feels nursing offers multiple opportunities to serve along with being able to give back to the community and immediate family. He has worked as a nursing supervisor at a nursing home and
has added a full time job as a Correctional Nurse. Currently Nigel is pursuing his BSN at the
University of Hartford and plans to graduate in May 2012.
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Secretary
Jeanne Bodett, MBA,BSN,RN
Jeanne has been a member of CNA since 1996 and has actively participated in the organization since 2003. She believes that contribution of time and experience to our professional organization is an important part of being a professional nurse. Jeanne’s experience over her career spans many facets of acute care, CCU and cardiac catheterization as a staff nurse and as a manger.
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Treasurer/ Representative, Finance Committee
Cynthia Kociszewski
Wolfson Palliative Care of Hospital of Central Connecticut
Cynthia Kociszewski, APRN, PhD, ACNP-BC, ACHPN, ACNPC, was elected treasurer of the Connecticut Nurses’ Association at its October Annual Business Meeting.
Kociszewski is manager of Wolfson Palliative Care of the Hospital of Central Connecticut, in New Britain. She was a nursing clinical associate at the University of Connecticut School of Nursing. From 2002-2006 she was a faculty member and acute care nurse track coordinator at UConn. She also has been a assistant professor in the Department of Medicine of the UConn School of Medicine.
Other positions Kociszewski has held include associate professor of the Adjunct Clinical Faculty at Quinnipiac University, Hamden; acute care nurse practitioner in the Medical/Surgical Intensive Care Unit at the Hospital of Central Connecticut; home care nurse for Professional Relief Services of Waterbury; and staff nurse/educator at St. Mary’s Hospital/St. Mary’s School of Nursing, in Waterbury.
Kociszewski holds a PhD, MS, and BS degrees in nursing from UConn. She has published articles in Heart & Lung, Journal of Holistidc Nursing, and Nursing Outlook, .and has given numerous presentations and lectures on a wide range of subjects related to her field.
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Representative, Government Relation Committee
Mary Jane Williams, PhD, RN
University of Hartford
I am first a nurse. Secondly I am an educator of nurses and founder, incorporator and currently president of the Nursing Career Center of Connecticut. I have worked diligently in my role as a leader and educator of nurses in the state to promote the profession in public and political arenas. I am a recognized leader in policy and nursing and have actively lobbied at the state level for support of nursing education funding over the last 10 years in my role as chair of Government Relations for the Connecticut Nurses’ Association. I currently teach a nursing policy course. I have mentored students in policy practicums and have provided opportunity for students to present testimony at the capital to their peers and colleagues during the legislative session and at legislative day seminars. One of my recent graduates initiated legislation that was funded to establish a Diaper Bank in Hartford.
I have taught nursing at each level for 38 years. I have also taught continuing education courses for practicing nurses in educational methodology and strategy. I am a frequent spokesperson for nursing. I participated in a national interview on national Public Radio (NPR) Boston with Robin Young and Suzanne Gordon in February related to the shortage. I have a second NPR interview ready for telecast in the near future related to the national workforce issues related to the nursing shortage.
My ultimate goal as an educator of nurses is to prepare empowered individuals to function at the expert level in their selected roles within the health care delivery system. These educated individuals will contribute members of a global society. The individuals I educate are and will be the leaders in nursing in the next decades.
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Representative, Bylaws and Resolutions Committee
Vacant
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Representative, Nominations and Appointments Committee
Julia Rosa, RN
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