Lisa Herbinger
Associate Chair, Associate Professor, Department of Nurse Anesthesia
Moffett & Sanders School of Nursing
1511 CHS Building 1
lallison@samford.edu
205-726-2630

Lisa began her nursing career as a neonatal ICU/transport RN. She has been a CRNA at Children’s of Alabama since graduating from the UAB nurse anesthesia program in 1994. After completing her MSN at Samuel Merritt (2009) and a DNP at UAB (2013), she began full-time teaching at Samford while continuing one day a week at Children’s. She is currently an associate professor and the associate chair of the Samford Nurse Anesthesia Program.

Degrees and Certifications

  • DNP, University of Alabama at Birmingham
  • MSN, Samuel Merritt
  • Post–BS Certification/Nurse Anesthesia, University of Alabama at Birmingham
  • BSN, University of Alabama at Birmingham
  • RN, St. Vincent’s School of Nursing

Expertise

  • Pediatric and neonatal critical care and anesthesia
  • Anesthesia induced neuroapoptosis
  • Trauma/Coagulopathy
  • Evidence based practice

Awards and Honors

  • Fellow of the American Association of Nurse Anesthesiologists, 2024
  • Most Outstanding 2013 Graduate (doctoral, UAB)
  • Most Outstanding 2013 Project, (doctoral, Sigma Theta Tau)
  • Most Outstanding 2009 Graduate (master’s, Samuel Merritt)
  • Children’s of Alabama 2006 Clinical Excellence Award
  • Summa Cum Laude graduate, 1994, UAB

Involvement

  • American Association of Nurse Anesthetists (ALANA), Member, Professional Development Committee
  • Alabama Association of Nurse Anesthetists (AANA)
  • American Society of PeriAnesthesia Nurses (ASPAN)

Recent Publications

  • Herbinger, L. (2024). Children and the opioid crisis – We can make a difference. Journal of PeriAnesthesia Nursing. Advance online publication. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jopan.2024.02.003

  • Herbinger, L., & Knight, K. (2022). Intussusception. In J. S. Furstein (Ed.), Pediatric Anesthesia: A Comprehensive Approach to Safe and Effective Care. Springer. doi:10.1891/9780826138750

  • Herbinger, L. A. (2018). Evidence based use of cuffed endotracheal tubes in children. Journal of PeriAnesthesia Nursing, 33(5), 590-600. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jopan.2017.07.001           

Recent Presentations

  • Peds Pharm Update: Anesthesia Effects on the Developing Brain to AANA Annual Congress, San Diego, CA, August 2024

  • Opioid Sparing Strategies for Children having ENT Procedures to AANA Annual Congress, San Diego CA, August 2024

  • Anesthetic Implications of GLP-1 Agonists: Are We Making the Rules as We Go? with Ken Taylor, DNP, CRNA and Kerry Varner, DNP, CRNA, to ALANA Fall CE event, Point Clear, AL, August 2023

  • Peds Anesthesia Update: Opioids, Opioid Sparing and Regional Techniques to the Society for Opioid Free Anesthesia (SOFA) annual CE event, Panama City, FL, April 2023

  • The Latest on Opioids, Opioid-Sparing and Regional Techniques for Children to AANA Annual Congress, Chicago, IL, August 2022

  • Reversal of Neuromuscular Blockade in Special Populations- A Case Study Series to Miller Medical Communications, LLC (with Matt McEvoy, MD, Vanderbilt University and Sorin Brull, MD, Mayo Clinic), May 2022

  • The Evidence Based Use of Sugammadex in Children, Common Postanesthesia Complications in Children and Perioperative Pain Adjuncts for Children (MANA, 2022)

  • A Review of Neuromuscular Blockade and Reversal in the Pediatric Population with Joe Tobias, MD (Medscape/WebMD, 2021)

  • Evidence Based Use of Sugammadex in Children (Society for Pediatric Anesthesia, 2021)

  • Hot Topic Trio in Peds Anesthesia Pharm (AANA, 2021)

Research Areas

  • Opioid sparing strategies for children
  • anesthesia effects on the developing brain
  • best practices for pediatric anesthesia