Karen LeBlanc Rice

Background

Rice, Karen LeBlanc was born on April 20, 1953 in New Orleans. Daughter of Guy Joseph LeBlanc Junior and Karen Margaret (Schexnayder) Sabo.

Education

Diploma, Touro Infirmary, 1974; Bachelor of science in nursing, University of Southern Alabama, 1989; MSN, University of Southern Alabama, 1991.

Career

Staff nurse Intensive Care Unit, Mercy Hospital, New Orleans, 1974-1978; head nurse Intensive Care Unit, Chalmette (Louisiana) Medical Center, 1978-1981; director special procedures, Chalmette Medical Centers, 1982-1988; staff nurse cardiac catheterization laboratory, Chalmette Medical Centers, 1988-1989; director cardiac catheterization laboratory, Chalmette Medical Centers, 1989-1991; vascular nurse practitioner, Ochsner Clinic, New Orleans, 1991-1994; surgery instructor School Medicine, Tulane University, New Orleans, since 1994. Preceptor Genentech, Inc., San Francisco, since 1987.

Achievements

• Karen LeBlanc Rice has been listed as a noteworthy Medical/surgical nurse, consultant by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member AACN (past president Greater New Orleans since 1980), Society Vascular Technology, Society Vascular Nursing (board of trustees 1994), Sigma Theta Tau, Phi Kappa Phi.

Connections

Married Michael Joseph Rice Senior, February 10, 1973. Children: Michael Joseph Junior, Mark Robert Rice.

Father:

Guy Joseph LeBlanc Sabo Junior

Mother:

Karen Margaret (Schexnayder) Sabo

Spouse:

Michael Joseph Rice Senior

child:

Mark Robert Rice

child:

Michael Joseph Junior Rice