{"id":125296,"date":"2025-09-02T13:02:27","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T18:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/?p=125296"},"modified":"2025-09-24T11:29:19","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T16:29:19","slug":"crna-spotlight-kayleigh-lewandowski","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2025\/09\/02\/crna-spotlight-kayleigh-lewandowski\/","title":{"rendered":"CRNA spotlight: Kayleigh Lewandowski"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p>Kayleigh Lewandowski is a new certified nurse anesthetist with the UNMC Department of Anesthesiology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Name: <\/strong>Kayleigh Lewandowski <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Hometown:<\/strong> Omaha, Nebraska<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>How I became interested in anesthesiology:<\/strong> I was a cardiac ICU nurse for several years at Children\u2019s Nebraska, and we did a lot of bedside procedures with anesthesia. 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