Mary C. Valentine, LSA - CEO, Dean

Mary C. Valentine is Founder, CEO, and Dean of Key Access Institute. Mary began her operating room career at St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital in the world–renowned Texas Medical Center, and now has over 20 years of clinical experience.

Although she has worked in all surgical specialties, she concentrated on orthopedics, such as sports medicine, total joint replacements, and vascular surgery, including endovascular procedures. Mary started as a Surgical Technologist, continued on to Certified Surgical Assistant, and then became a Licensed Surgical First Assistant.

Throughout her career, she saw the business need for an organization of highly trained Surgical Assistants. She assembled her successful team of Key Surgical Assistants from qualified Surgical Assistants, Registered Nurses, Registered Nurses First Assistants, Physician Assistants, and Nurse Practitioners.

Realizing that the future of health care depends on top-quality education, Mary led the teams that created Key Access Institute.

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• Associates in Applied Science, Electronics Technology

  1984, Laser Optics Specialty, Texas State Technical Institute

• Certified Surgical Technologist

  1992, Texas State Technical College

• Certified Surgical Assistant

  1999, National Surgical Assistant Association

• Certified First Assistant

  1998, National Board of Surgical Technology and Surgical Assisting

• Licensed Surgical Assistant

  2003, Texas Medical Board