Bio

Alicia Dean is the Coordinator for Continuing Nurse Education at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center School of Nursing.  She received her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Southeastern Louisiana University and her Master of Science in Nursing with a concentration in Adult Health Trauma from the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

Ms. Dean has over 30 years of clinical experience working in intensive care units and emergency departments in Level 1 trauma centers. She has been a Clinical Nurse Specialist for over 20 years. She spent most of those years as the Clinical Nurse Specialist in ED/Critical Care/Trauma at Charity Hospital/University Medical Center.

Ms. Dean is involved in the Emergency Nurses Association serving on a local, regional, and national level. She served as a planning committee member for the 2012, 2013, and 2014 National ENA Leadership Conferences. She also served as the planning committee chairperson for the 2013 National ENA Annual Conference and as a planning committee member for the 2014 National ENA Annual Conference. She has been on the Board of Directors for the Louisiana Council of Emergency Nurses for over 20 years and is a past state president.