Meet the NAC: Linda Burnes Bolton

This week, we would like to introduce you to Linda Burnes Bolton, DrPH, RN, FAAN, who served as liaison to our national advisory committee prior to joining the Foundation's Board of Trustees.

Dr. Burnes Bolton is vice president for nursing, chief nursing officer, and director of nursing research at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. She was elected to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Board of Trustees in January 2012. She is one of the principal investigators at The Burns and Allen Research Institute at Cedars-Sinai. Burnes Bolton is a past president of the American Academy of Nursing and the National Black Nurses Association. She is currently a member of the American Nurses Association, American Organization for Nurse Executives, Association of California Nurse Leaders, American Public Health Association, Council for the Advancement of Nursing Science, National Black Nurses Association, and National League for Nursing. She has served as a trustee at Case Western Reserve University since 2006. Burnes Bolton has held other board and officer positions for several national organizations and is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Organization of Nurse Executives and the Distinguished Alumnae Award from Arizona State University. In 2009 she was appointed vice chair of the Institute of Medicine Commission on the Future of Nursing. In 2011 she was named one of the top 25 women in health care by Modern Healthcare magazine and one of the top 10 health care executives by the Los Angeles Business Journal. An endowed nursing leadership scholarship in her name was established in 2011 at the University of California, Los Angeles, School of Nursing. Burnes Bolton also holds positions as an associate clinical professor of nursing at the University of California, San Francisco, and University of California, Los Angeles.

In this clip, Dr. Burnes Bolton discusses what she perceives to be the greatest challenges and opportunities in health care today and how the INQRI program has influenced her views.