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Operating Room Operations Officer
United States Air Force, Nurse Corps
Captain Alexis J. Carlson, MSN, RN, CNOR has been serving in the United States Air force the past 7 years in the Nurse Corps. She began her nursing career in the civilian sector with an internship in the preoperative and post-anesthesia unit in Oxford, Ohio to follow with employment in the Clinical Decision Unit in Montgomery, Ohio. After her commission into the Air Force in 2019, she attended a Nurse Tranisition Program in Scottsdale, AZ and the Air Force Perioperative Nursing Residency in San Antonio, TX. In 2023-2024, she worked for a civilian health system as a Surgical Services Informatics Specalist at 4 facilities in Iowa and Illinois. She graduated with her Master in Nursing Informatics from Liberty University, Lynchburg, VA in 2024. Her background is in perioperative nursing, research and evidence-based practice (EBP), education and training, process-improvement (PI), and surgical services informatics. Some of her professional accomplishments include presenting her research on surgical headgear types at the 2020 AORN Global Surgical Conference, presenting PI efforts and policy revamping for surgical medication safety in 2020 at a level one trauma center in San Antonio, TX, presenting at 2024 ANIA Annual Conference for her surgical preference card PI initiative at a civilian hospital system in Illinois and Iowa, presenting her research into the epigenetics of anxiety disorders at the 2025 ANIA Annual Conference, and presenting her EBP/PI on surgical smoke evacuation at the 2025 Military Education and Training Event in Europe. She is also the recipient of the 2025 Alumni Healthcare Innovator Award for Miami University of Ohio, the 2025 Excellence in Action Award two-time recipient, Preceptor of the Quarter recipient, and CGO Award two-time recipient. Currently, she is advocating with the Defense Health Agency (DHA) to implement a surgical smoke evacuation policy that would impact over 700 military treatment facilities.