Linda Sarna, interim dean for the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) School of Nursing has been elected to serve as the first National Board Chair for the National Clinician Scholars Program (NCSP). Sarna was one of the original founders of NCSP and was elected unanimously to serve a three-year term. As chair of the board, Sarna will be overseeing that all NCSP sites are recruiting elite clinicians who will provide high quality training consistent with the principles and goals of the program.
The National Clinician Scholars Program was founded in 2015 as a collaboration between UCLA, Yale University, the University of Michigan, and the University of Pennsylvania. The program’s inspiration comes from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Program, with a goal of cultivating health equity, eliminating health disparities, inventing new models of care, and achieving higher quality health care at lower cost by training nurse and physician researchers to work as leaders and collaborators in communities, health care systems, government, foundation, and think tanks across the US and around the globe.
President and CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, is pleased to see Linda Sarna elected as Board Chair of the NCSP. She believes that Sarna is well suited to oversee the program and will have a lot to contribute from her background as a nurse scientist, educator, and advocate for public health. Sarna will also have a lot of support backing her from the Deans and leaders of the four universities who founded the program, as well as from the Department of Veterans Affairs and other experts in the field of interprofessional education.
Sarna is excited about the opportunity to work together with the NCSP board to improve the health of all communities through interdisciplinary collaboration with nurses and physicians. Her goal for her term is to ensure that scholars in the program are provided with the experience necessary to emerge as leaders in health system transformation. Electing Sarna as first National Board Chair provides the new program with the strong foundation necessary to develop the next generation of leaders and agents of change. The first group of scholars will begin the program on July 1, 2016.
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