Linda Burnes Bolton, Dr.PH., RN, FAAN, was vice chair of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Initiative on the Future of Nursing at the Institute of Medicine (IOM), which convened and commissioned The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health, a landmark report on the nursing workforce published last year. Known for developing a community collaboration model to improve health care quality and access, Burnes Bolton will discuss how the report and the community collaboration model can enhance the future of health care. A past president of the American Academy of Nursing and the National Black Nurses Association, Burnes Bolton is a principal investigator at the Cedars-Sinai Burns & Allen Research Institute. Her research, teaching, and clinical expertise include nursing and patient care outcomes, improving the health of childbearing women, and improving functional health literacy and the quality of care in ethnic and racial communities.
A reception will follow the presentation.
