Assistant Vice President
AnMed Health System
Anderson, South Carolina, United States
Vangie Dennis is the Assistant Vice President for Perioperative services located in Anderson County, SC. AnMed is a third designation Magnet Facility. Professional organizations include the Association of Operating Room Nurses (AORN), American Association for Nursing Leadership (AONL) Laser Institute of America, AORN Specialty Assemblies, and the American Society for Lasers in Medicine and Surgery.
She is on the editorial board for the Journal for Clinical Laser Medicine and Surgery, OR Today and Outpatient Surgery. Vangie has been published and cited in many books and publications.
Vangie is on the Board of Directors for Laser Institute of America, the chair for the National Certification on Lasers, Board of Laser Safety: Board of Commissions, Board of Directors for AORN National, Past President of the NW AORN Chapter, Past Treasurer for the Georgia Council of Nurses, Board of Directors for Gwinnett Technical School and committee representative for the American National Standards Institute. She presently serves as the National Treasurer for AORN Board of Directors and served a term on the Board of Directors.
She is a recipient named in Strathmore’s WHO’s WHO, the recipient of the 1996 Nursing Excellence Award from the American Society for Lasers in Medicine and Surgery, awarded the 2011 R. James Rockwell Jr. Educational Achievement Award, and the 2011 AORN Award for Outstanding Achievement in Perioperative Clinical Nursing Education. She is the recipient of the 2018 Distinguished Nurse of the Year for the Georgia March of Dimes and 2019 Manager of the year for OR Manager. Vangie was also awarded Perioperative nurse of the year for the Georgia Council of Perioperative Nurses and for the AORN Northwest Chapter. Vangie is a member of Emory Alpha Epsilon Chapter of the Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing and presently running for President-Elect for National AORN.
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Wednesday, March 23, 2022
7:30 AM – 12:00 PM CDT
Friday, March 25, 2022