Renee Hildebrand MSN CNOR, RNFA has 38 years of operating room experience. Her depth covers most specialties within the operating room and her perioperative career started as a surgical technologist and has evolved into her current role as the Director of Perioperative Services at Houston Methodist Willowbrook Hospital. Renee has experience developing a system program that trains and mentors new nurses to the OR. Renee received both her Associate Degree in Surgical Technology and her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the University of Akron in Akron, Ohio. She received her Master of Science in Nursing/Family Nurse Practitioner Degree from Clarkson College, Omaha Nebraska and her RNFA training was completed at the University of New Mexico in Taos, New Mexico. She has been a CNOR since 1994 and has been a guest speaker at numerous venues on leadership, mentoring, and succession planning.