Dr. Jenni Ross Majumdar, PhD, CRNA
Speaker Bio — Short

Dr. Jenni Ross Majumdar is a nurse anesthetist and Nurse Scientist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, a tenure-track Assistant Professor at the Hunter-Bellevue School of Nursing, and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Nurse Anesthesia Education. She writes Art of Anesthesia, a Substack explaining what really happens in the operating room.

Speaker Bio — Long

Dr. Jenni Ross Majumdar, PhD, MSN, CRNA, is a Nurse Scientist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, a tenure-track Assistant Professor and Assistant Specialty Director of the Nurse Anesthesia Doctor of Nursing Practice program at the Hunter-Bellevue School of Nursing, CUNY, and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Nurse Anesthesia Education. She is a Fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine and a 2025–2026 92NY Women in Power Fellow. Her research program spans perioperative anxiety and recovery in cancer surgery patients and their caregivers, nurse anesthesia education and curriculum design, drug-diversion prevention and safety in clinical training, and the U.S. nurse anesthesia workforce. She has published more than twenty-seven peer-reviewed articles and has been funded by NIH (through a Weill Cornell sub-award), the Rudin Foundation, the Leslie B. Tyson Nursing Research Award, and others. She is the author of Art of Anesthesia on Substack, where she writes for a growing public audience about what actually happens during anesthesia — and what gets erased when nobody asks. A high-resolution headshot is available on request.

Signature Talks

Topics I speak on

Each talk adapts to your audience and time slot — from 25-minute conference sessions to full keynotes.

General audience · Keynote

The Art of Anesthesia: What Patients Never See

The hidden work behind the most common medical experience in America — the vigilance, the choreography, and the people the patient never remembers.

General audience · Patients & families

What Happens While You're Under Anesthesia

A minute-by-minute, plain-language walk through a general anesthetic — the drugs, the monitoring, the safety systems — built from the most-read explainers in Art of Anesthesia.

Educators · Academic leadership

The Future of Nurse Anesthesia Education

Competency-based DNP curriculum design, clinical progression frameworks, drug-diversion prevention in training, and what the rapid expansion of programs means for the profession.

Clinical · Quality & safety

Patient Safety in the Invisible Moments of Care

Perioperative symptom science from a funded research program: preoperative anxiety, distress, nausea, and recovery — and what the data say we can actually do about them.

Clinicians · Scholars

Building a Scholarly Voice as a Clinician-Educator

From the bedside to a research program, a journal editorship, and a public platform — how clinicians can build scholarly identity without leaving practice behind.

Clinicians · Writers

From Clinical Expertise to Public Writing

How to translate clinical authority into writing general readers actually open — built from experience as a journal Editor-in-Chief and the growth of Art of Anesthesia.

Audiences

Who I speak to

Nursing and medical conferences · hospital grand rounds · nurse anesthesia and DNP programs · oncology and perioperative nursing organizations · patient and community groups · podcasts and media · leadership and women-in-healthcare programs · commencements.

Track Record

Selected recent venues

  • Oncology Nursing Society Annual Congress
    San Antonio 2026 (three presentations, including podium on managing surgical pain) · Denver 2025 (two podiums) · Washington, DC 2024
  • AANA Annual Congress
    Nashville 2025 (two podiums: anesthesia in the psychedelic era; drug-diversion prevention) · San Diego 2024 · Boston 2018
  • Weill Cornell Department of Anesthesiology Grand Rounds
    Invited, 2024 — on building the Hunter-Bellevue nurse anesthesia program
  • Eastern Nursing Research Society · American Psychosocial Oncology Society · ASCO Quality · ASER-PM
    Podium and poster presentations, 2023–2026
  • AACN Doctoral Education Conference · AANA Assembly of Didactic and Clinical Educators
    Podium presentations on DNP curriculum and educator development, 2024–2025
  • New York University Nursing Undergraduate Lecture Series
    Invited, 2026 — "So You Want to Be a CRNA?"

Speaking inquiry

Available for keynotes, grand rounds, conference sessions, commencements, panels, and podcasts. Tell me about your audience, date, format, and budget.

Send a Speaking Inquiry

jenni@nurseanesthesiaresearch.org