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Mary has been in the medical field for over 11 years. She grew up in Nashville, TN, where she received an associate’s degree in Nursing followed by a bachelor’s degree in Nursing from East Tennessee State University. She worked in the Neuro ICU at Vanderbilt University before attending the University of Tennessee to pursue her Master’s degree in Nurse Anesthesiology. After receiving her degree in 2016, she began practicing in the operating room as a Certified Registered Nurse Anesthesiologist and continues to do so today. Mary lives in Knoxville with her two beautiful children and loving husband. She worked in a medical spa in downtown Knoxville for over two years before founding Smiley Aesthetics.

Mary is an experienced aesthetic injectables trainer with certifications from Allergan, International Association For Physicians in Aesthetic Medicine, and American Medical Educators Training. She continues to advance her aesthetic education and practice daily and has a passion for training others.

Dr. April Erickson has worked in the healthcare industry for nearly 20 years, gaining experience in anesthesia practice, policy, and leadership. As a seasoned Nurse Anesthesiologist, she is passionate about advancing the practice of nurse anesthesiology and developing policies on the hospital, state, and federal levels that allow CRNAs to practice to the top of their training.

In addition to her hospital and office-based anesthesia practice, she also was the first to open a Ketamine clinic for mental health in the state of Alaska. She is also adjunct faculty at the University of Alaska in Anchorage and teaches healthcare policy to future nurse practitioners.

She has a bachelor’s degree in nursing from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, a master’s in Nurse Anesthesiology from Texas Christian University, and a doctoral degree in nursing practice with leadership emphasis from Boise State University.

Outside of work, April enjoys hiking, biking, being outside and enjoying life with her husband Todd and two Labrador retrievers Sig and Kimber.

Poppy Walker is the owner of Medical Reimbursement Solutions for the past 23 years, specializing in medical billing for self-employed CRNAs.  Her clients work in a variety of specialities to include pain management, gastroenterology, ENT, ophthalmology, plastic surgery and orthopedics, to name a few.  Her clients span across the United States and Poppy has become well-regarded in the area of healthcare reimbursement.  Her company has grown exponentially over the years simply by word of mouth referrals.  She currently bills for over 20 anesthesia practices.  Her faithful staff has the medical billing operation running like a well-oiled machine.  Medical Reimbursement Solutions’s triple-layer audit system makes her company model unique to the billing industry, ensuring providers reap maximum insurance revenue.  Poppy places a strong value on personal relationships.  Her longest client has been with her company for 20 years and her longest employee has been on staff over 18 years.

Poppy holds a BS in Healthcare Administration and an MBA in Finance.  She obtained a real estate license in 2019 to build her real estate portfolio as well as assist clients with investment properties who are looking to diversify streams of income.  Her passions include teaching, remodeling houses, pilates and serving on local community executive boards.  Poppy teaches financial literacy once a week to high school students, serves as vice president to the Swenson House Historical Society (preservation of local historical landmarks) and is treasurer of the Big Country Home Educators Association – advising in all areas of non-profit accounting and record keeping.  Poppy is an Air Force veteran – having served six years and her husband is a 20-year retired Air Force Veteran and currently a law enforcement officer for the City of Abilene.  They have two beautiful adult daughters, one of which is on her way to becoming a CRNA herself.

Areas of Expertise:
Provider Credentialing
Preparing and launching new private practice 1099 providers
Diagnostic auditing and consulting for struggling practices
Interventional Pain Management
Effective Insurance Collection Methods

Originally from Birmingham, Alabama, Adam obtained his undergraduate degree from the University of Alabama in 2004. After moving to Fort Worth, Texas, and working for a couple of years, he attended Texas Wesleyan University, where he received a Masters of Science in Nurse Anesthesia in 2008. Upon completion of the program, he then went on to work for several different anesthesia groups holding various management positions, including Vice President of Operations, before starting his group in 2016, Trident Anesthesia (www.tridentanesthesia.com). Trident Anesthesia provides anesthesia services to offices, ASCs, and surgical hospitals all across the state of Texas.

Being an experienced business owner and successful investor, he started AG Collective Capital in 2021 to educate accredited investors on venture capital and to provide access to investment opportunities offering above-market returns in early-stage private companies through its network of relationships with founders, angel investors, VCs, and other affiliated investment companies. His investments cover a variety of sectors including biopharma, biotech, e-commerce, fintech, education, healthcare, artificial intelligence, space transportation, cyber security, and web3/blockchain. He has a passion for educating others on venture capital as well as financial independence to allow others to maximize their earnings and their charitable contributions.

Along with his wife, Gena, he is also a co-founder and serves on the board of directors of RE_Ministry (www.reministry.com), a Christian-based non-profit organization for high school boys based in the Dallas/Fort Worth area.

Jan Mannino has been a CRNA for over 60 years, received a law degree and has a long history in the profession. She has been active in the AANA and served as president in 1987-88. Jan has authored many articles in professional books and journals and two books, The Nurse Anesthetist and the Law and The Business of Anesthesia. She has recently retired from clinical anesthesia practice, but continues to consult and lecture to SRNAs and CRNAs on legal and business issues for nurse anesthetists. In her retirement, Jan is writing a medical malpractice thriller and a memoir. She lives in Southern California with her dog, Annie.

Alicia lives in East Tennessee with her husband John of 25 years. She has a 22 year old daughter and a dog named Lucy Mabeline.

Alicia completed her anesthesia training at LSU HSC in New Orleans in 2010 and has practiced in Texas and Tennessee in the hospital, ASC, and office settings.

She has been a solo dental office anesthesia provider for over 20,000 procedures in the last five years for ages 3-93.

She also graduated as a Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner at The University of Tennessee Knoxville in 1994.

Her business include:

• Total Tiva Anesthesia
• Southern Skin Aesthetics
• Coming soon- The Back Porch, an indoor and outdoor cooking channel on YouTube.

Holly Bohannan has been a CRNA for 16 years, and has worked as a 1099 CRNA for about half of that time. She graduated from Missouri State University with a Master of Science Nurse Anesthesia in December of 2005, after completing clinical time at St John’s Health Center for the Southwest Missouri School of Anesthesia, she became a CRNA in March 2006. Her Bachelor of Science in Nursing was earned at the University of Arkansas in 2000.

Her 1099 experience began in 2006 when she accepted a position as a contracted employee for a MD anesthesia group, until the group was changed and the CRNAs were required to become W2 employees around 2011. In January, 2019 she accepted a position to work independently and bill for her anesthesia services alongside another CRNA at an ambulatory ophthalmic surgery center. She also helps at a couple other outpatient surgery centers in Northwest Arkansas with vacation or emergency coverage.

Holly lives with her husband of 19 years, a professional bass fisherman, and her teen son in Bentonville, Arkansas. She enjoys mountain biking, hiking, camping, fishing in the Ozarks and snow skiing in Colorado, swimming in the ocean, and Lake Michigan adventures with her family.