[1] The AANA headquarters is currently located in Rosemont, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago.
[2][3] The association held its first annual meeting in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, from September 13 to 15, 1933.
The meeting drew 120 attendees and saw Agatha Hodgins elected as the inaugural president.
[8] These organizations state that the name change is misappropriating the anesthesiologist title, and that it is deceptive, misleading to patients, and causes confusion in care settings.
[11] First published in 1933,[2][12] it focuses on disseminating scholarly articles relevant to the practice of nurse anesthesiology.