2008 PRESIDENT
Mar’Sue May, B.S.N., R.N., C.C.R.N., L.N.C.C.
(858) 492-9400

Mar’Sue has been a practicing registered nurse for 14 years. She currently works in the Intensive Care Unit and as a Research Nurse for CIREN (Crash Injury Research & Engineering Network). She also has experience in Emergency Department, Post Anesthesia Care Unit, Telemetry and Step-Down Units. In 2002 she established a successful Independent Legal Nurse Consulting firm, Source4 Medical-Legal Consulting. She holds advanced certifications in Legal Nurse Consulting and maintains advanced knowledge and certifications in CaseMap and Timemap software, whereby she is a certified trainer and reseller of the medical-legal software.

2008 PRESIDENT-ELECT
Sharon Rennick, R.N., B.S.N., C.L.N.C., O.N.C.
(619) 504-4636
www.SharonRennick.com

2008 PAST PRESIDENT
Wendy Bonnar BS, RN-C, WHCNP
(619) 589-6992
www.bonnarlegalnurseconsulting.com

2008 TREASURER
Cynthia Dyte, R.N., B.S.N., C.L.N.C.
(858) 722-0471
www.dytelnc.com

SECRETARY
Nancy Blevins, B.S.N., R.N.
(619) 699-2850

Nancy Blevins, BSN, has been involved with AALNC for 15 years and has served various roles, both locally and nationally.  Nancy served as President of the San Diego Chapter in 1997; Director at Large on the national Board from 2000-2004; Conference Chair of the national conference in Anaheim, CA, in 2005; Director-at-Large for SD-AALNC 2007, and on various national committees and task groups.   Nancy's clinical career included experience in telemetry, trauma, and emergency nursing.  She started her legal nurse consulting career working in-house for a plaintiff law firm, and has worked for DLA PIPER, Law Firm from 1995-2007 with an emphasis on product liability, personal injury, and toxic tort cases.  Her current position is that of Quality Accreditation & Risk Specialist at Rady Children's Hospital. 

DIRECTOR AT LARGE
K. DeAnn Taylor, R.N.
(858) 395-1867

K. DeAnn Taylor, RN has 17 years of clinical nursing experience, primarily in the areas of critical care, cardiology and the cardiac cath lab. She has been a successful independent Legal Nurse Consultant since starting her own business, KDT Consulting, in 1997, with her practice focusing on medical malpractice and product liability defense, and most recently insurance fraud. She is an active member of the San Diego Chapter of AALNC, has served as secretary, membership chair and director at large, and was the 2006 president of the San Diego Chapter of the American Association of Legal Nurse Consultants.

DIRECTOR AT LARGE
Karen Wetther, R.N., B.S.N.

Karen Wetther has been an R.N. since 1971 and a Legal Nurse Consultant (LNC) since 1983.  She is a founding member of the American Association of Legal Nurse Consultants, both the national organization and the San Diego Chapter.  She has served on the Board of Directors of both also.  After almost seven years as a full-time in-house consultant for a San Diego personal injury law firm, she started an independent LNC business, Medical Legal Resources, consulting with attorneys on the medical aspects of their cases and conducting training workshops for nurses nationwide.  She developed and has been the Coordinator and a faculty member for the Legal Nurse Consulting Certificate Program at the University of California, San Diego, Extension Studies Division.  She consults with both plaintiff and defense attorneys on a variety of cases, including personal injury, medical malpractice, toxic torts, products liability, and criminal.  She has authored and co-authored chapters in the text Legal Nurse Consulting: Principles & Practice.”

DIRECTOR AT LARGE
Robert L Erb, Ph.D., M.A., R.N., C.S., C.L.N.C.

Robert Erb has over thirty-eight years of diverse clinical and administrative healthcare experience,  Robert’s experience also includes conducting field level medical research for WHO and CDC in tropical illnesses in the role of epidemiologist.  His scope of knowledge includes healthcare administrative, emergency medicine and psychiatric/ mental health. Robert describes himself as an educator with demonstrated ability to convey both small details and the overall picture. He is currently employed by Sharp Healthcare in Role of Psychiatric Liaison Consulting Nurse, Educator and Regulation/Compliance resource.  He has been in the LNC field for the past 15 years and is co-owner of an independent practice Eagle Professional Management Services focused on Risk/Quality Management, Compliance/ Regulatory, Federal/State Survey and providing consulting and testifying expertise for both plaintiff and defense firms.  He has worked closely with numerous healthcare facilities and third parties in many states. Authored and co-authored several chapters on legal and ethical practice in clinical settings for leading professional textbooks.  

DIRECTOR AT LARGE
Gerrie James, R.N., B.S.N., M.S.N.

Gerrie James has 26 years of nursing experience.  She has successfully integrated her 20 years of medical/surgical, oncology and labor/delivery clinical experiences with other areas unique to health care such as corporate compliance, quality, case management, and risk.  Currently, and over the past six years, Gerrie has worked as the sole clinical member of a lawyer led Corporate Compliance team.  She understands how to recognize if health care services and subsequent claim submission is compliant with Federal/State laws.  Linking quality of care with corporate compliance she walks carefully through health care records, exposing potential or actual breach in care as well as suspected fraud relative to gross charges, In/Out Patient procedure codes assignment and ultimately, the final bill that “went out the door.”  Gerrie holds advanced certification in Coding [CCS - Certified Coding Specialist], Corporate Compliance [CCP-Certified Compliance Professional] and Certified Professional Utilization Review [CPUR].  She received a BSN from Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, and an MSN from San Diego State University, San Diego, CA.  Professional memberships include; American Health Information Management Association [AHIMA], member/speaker for the California Health Information Management Association [CHIA], American Association of Nurse Assessment Coordinators (AANAC-LTC) and American Association of Legal Nurse Consultants [National/Local Organization]. 

DIRECTOR AT LARGE
Marsha Anderson, R.N.