BCEN names 2024 –25 board of directors

The new board will be chaired by Allen C Wolfe Jr, the Senior Director of Clinical Education at the Minnesota-based Life Link III air ambulance service. Wolfe previously served as Chairperson-Elect as part of the 2022–23 board.

The new Chairperson-Elect was named as Julie Ruddy, a retired acute care/emergency/trauma nurse from Doylestown, Pennsylvania.

Other new board members – whose voluntary, two-year terms began on 1 January – include:

• Secretary/Treasurer: Sean Elwell, Senior Director, Trauma Center, Critical Care Transport, Emergency services, at Nemours Children’s Hospital, Delaware
• Immediate Past Chairperson: Rebecca Steinmann, Instructor at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation and former Chairperson of the 2022–23 BCEN board
• Public Representative: Robert Corrao, Executive Chairman at Harbor
• Ex-Officio Member: Janie Schumaker, CEO of BCEN.

Three Members-at-Large are returning for the 2023–24 period (Steven P Talbot, Roger Casey, and Brody Eick), while a new one – Emily Werthman, Burn Program Coordinator at the Johns Hopkins Burn Center in Baltimore, Maryland – has joined the team for the first time.

“Having just launched our new Certified Burn Registered Nurse (CBRN) certification worldwide in fall 2023, BCEN is very pleased to welcome new board member and Johns Hopkins Burn Program Coordinator Emily Werthman,” said Schumaker.

BCEN celebrated 30 years of its Certified Flight Registered Nurse (CFRN) certification program in 2023.