Lisa Soltis, MSN, APRN, PCCN, CCRN-CSC-CMC, CES-A, CCNS, FCNS, FCCM, brings over 29 years of critical care nursing experience to her lectures. She earned her BA from Western Michigan University, her BSN from the University of North Carolina-Charlotte, and her MSN from Duke University School of Nursing as an Adult Critical Care Clinical Nurse Specialist. She is a member of the American Association of Critical Care Nurses, was inducted as a Fellow in the inaugural class with the National Association of Clinical Nurse Specialists in 2019, and is a Fellow in the Society of Critical Care Medicine since 2012. Her experience includes Trauma/Surgical Critical Care and over 27 years of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery Critical Care. 

Lisa currently works with Fresenius Medical Care Heart and Lung division as a Sr. ECMO Clinical Support Specialist for the Novalung support system. She also still cares for patients at the bedside as a clinical nurse at WakeMed Health and Hospitals in the CTICU, in Raleigh, NC. She lectures on various topics related to critical care, mechanical circulatory support, ECMO, and several certification review courses.