Laura A. Rodgers née Stamford

Laura Rodgers DrAP, CRNA, CHSE serves as the Simulation Coordinator for the Oakland University-Beaumont Graduate Program of Nurse Anesthesia. She graduated from the University of Pittsburgh with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Nursing and earned her Master of Science in Nursing from the Oakland University-Beaumont Graduate Program of Nurse Anesthesia. Rodgers completed her Doctorate of Anesthesia Practice at the University of Michigan in 2017. She obtained her CHSE in 2018, a certification for educators focused on healthcare simulation.

Currently working in the clinical area at William Beaumont Hospital and with twenty years of nurse anesthesia clinical practice she coordinates the simulation activities for students at the graduate level. Rodgers has presented Cricothyrotomy Workshops at the Michigan Association of Nurse Anesthetists state meetings and has published her research in the American Journal of Nurse Anesthetists. She is currently the District 2 Director on the Michigan Association of Nurse Anesthetists Board of Directors.

A mother to three children and grandmother to one granddaughter, she has been married to her high school sweetheart for thirty-three years.