Linda Burnes Bolton

Linda Burnes Bolton is an American nurse and healthcare administrator. She is the vice president and chief nursing officer at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and has served as president of the American Academy of Nursing, the American Organization of Nurse Executives and the National Black Nurses Association. She is a member of the National Academy of Medicine.

Biography

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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.[3] She served as vice-chair of the Institute of Medicine Committee on the Future of Nursing.^[4] She was named to the Board of Trustees at Case Western Reserve University in 2007.^[5] In 2012, she was elected a trustee of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.^[6] Burnes Bolton is on the editorial board of the American Journal of Nursing.^[7]

Before she was elected president of the AONE, the organization presented her with its Lifetime Achievement Award.^[8] In 2011, Modern Healthcare named her to its Top 25 Women in Healthcare.^[9] She received an honorary doctorate from the SUNY Upstate Medical University in 2015.^[10] That year, she was elected to the National Academy of Medicine.^[11] She won the 2016 Professional Achievement Award from the UCLA Alumni Association^[12] and was the 2016 recipient of the TRUST Award from the American Hospital Association.^[13]

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