Linda Burnes Bolton is an American nurse and healthcare administrator. She is the vice president and chief nursing officer at

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and has served as president of the

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, the American Organization of Nurse Executives and the

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. She is a member of the

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Biography

Burnes Bolton grew up in

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and became interested in nursing at the age of seven, having suffered from severe

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and requiring frequent hospitalizations. She earned an undergraduate nursing degree from

Arizona State University Arizona State University (Arizona State or ASU) is a public research university in the Phoenix metropolitan area. Founded in 1885 by the 13th Arizona Territorial Legislature, ASU is one of the largest public universities by enrollment in the ...

. She completed three graduate degrees at

UCLA The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California. UCLA's academic roots were established in 1881 as a teachers college then known as the southern branch of the California St ...

- master's degrees in nursing and public health and a doctorate in public health. She is the Vice President for Nursing, Chief Nursing Officer, and Director of Nursing Research at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. Burnes Bolton is a past president of the American Academy of Nursing, the American Organization of Nurse Executives (AONE) and the National Black Nurses Association. She served as vice-chair of the Institute of Medicine Committee on the Future of Nursing. She was named to the Board of Trustees at

Case Western Reserve University Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) is a private research university in Cleveland, Ohio. Case Western Reserve was established in 1967, when Western Reserve University, founded in 1826 and named for its location in the Connecticut Western Reser ...

in 2007. In 2012, she was elected a trustee of the

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. Burnes Bolton is on the editorial board of the ''

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''. Before she was elected president of the AONE, the organization presented her with its Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2011, ''

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'' named her to its Top 25 Women in Healthcare. She received an honorary doctorate from the

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in 2015. That year, she was elected to the National Academy of Medicine. She won the 2016 Professional Achievement Award from the UCLA Alumni Association and was the 2016 recipient of the TRUST Award from the American Hospital Association.

References

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