Lt. Col. (ret) Thomas Davis, DNAP, MAE, CRNA

Author, Leader, Speaker, Team Builder

Tom is well known throughout the Nurse Anesthesia community for his expetise as a clinical anesthetist, writer, speaker and leadership coach.   With experience both as a Chief Nurse Anesthetist and Nurse Anesthesia Educator, Tom has touched the lives of hundreds of CRNAs who are now practicing throughout the Nation.   Experienced working across department lines, he is in a unique position to provide management and leadership techniques in both healthcare and business communities.

Philosophy

With a passion for healthcare leadership development and patient safety, Tom is committed to helping others to achieve their highest level of success both as skilled anesthesia providers and as healthcare leaders.   At the heart of his leadership philosophy are collaborative teamwork and asset based thinking that produce exceptional outcomes. Tom has a talent for bringing groups together, identifying individual strengths, creating a vision, and achieving results.   Whether the format is individual coaching, small group workshops or workgroup retreats, Tom has creative insight to take your team to the next level.

Strengths

Tom willingly shares the knowledge that he has acquired over his career with emerging leaders in the healthcare industry.   He is eager to mentor individual leaders and management teams thereby enabling them to develop, share and implement a vision using energetic teamwork that capitalizes on individual strengths.

Author

Known for informative and motivational writing, Tom has had articles published in the AANA news bulletin as well as numerous publications on his web site, prosynex.com.    His depth of experience and keen insight give the reader important information related to leadership, management and patient safety issues.

Tom’s four decades of experience as a healthcare provider and leader provide a solid foundation for his powerful book, Leader Reader 1, Authentic lessons in leadership released in 2017.   The book is receiving strong reviews and is a valuable resource for every leader in both medical and non-medical leadership positions.

Speaker

As a requested speaker, Tom has been onstage at the AANA fall leadership academy, the AANA annual congress and has participated in seminars sponsored by Northwest Anesthesia Seminars, Encore Anesthesia Symposium, IPGE, and NAFA.   In addition, he is a highly requested speaker at numerous State Nurse Anesthesia Association meetings.   Click here to see a video introduction to each of Tom’s current talks.

Educator

Building upon his experience as the director of clinical training for the Air Force nurse anesthesia program followed by his work as an associate professor at the University of Kansas, Tom continues to actively teach leadership courses.  Currently, Tom teaches doctorate level online leadership coursed for Midwestern University, Medical University of South Carolina, and National University.

Personal Interests

Tom is an active member of his community and believes that true healthcare reform begins with individual fitness.   Leading by example, Tom is an avid cyclist and actively participates in the National Rails to Trails program to increase the number of dedicated cycling routes in America. In addition, he collaborates with his wife Liz who writes and publishes articles to motivate healthcare workers to improve their own personal health.