Laura Linn, RN, MN
Project Director

Laura Linn joined the Center for Health Transformation in 2003 and is Director of the Georgia Project and Co-Director of the 21st Century Hospital Project. Her responsibilities include management of the state transformation project in Georgia which includes the Healthy Georgia Diabetes & Obesity Initiative, the Columbus Project and the creation of a Center for Leadership in Georgia which will help expand the state model throughout Georgia and into other states.  

Ms. Linn has years of experience in the medical electronics and medical IT fields, and 15 years of healthcare experience as a Clinical Nurse Specialist in Critical Care. She serves on the Advisory Board for the Duke University Masters in Nursing Informatics Program and is a Consulting Associate Faculty at Duke University School of Nursing.  She also served on the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations’ Health Information Technology Advisory Panel from 2004-2006 and as an Ad Hoc Advisor to the Georgia Health IT and Transparency Board.

Ms. Linn earned her bachelor’s degree in nursing from the University of Illinois, Chicago; a Master’s in Nursing from Emory University; and a Post Graduate Certificate in Nursing Informatics from Duke University. Ms. Linn has developed training programs, developed and managed a customer web site, served on product development committees, and has presented at national critical care nursing and information technology institutes.  She has also developed tools for educating nurses on the application of complex medical electronics and for enhancing collaboration and networking.  

Ms. Linn has co-authored several articles related to the Center’s diabetes and obesity project.  She was one of 20 applicants world-wide selected to attend the CDC’s 2006 Diabetes Short Course.

Ms. Linn has experience in consulting in the areas of knowledge management, project management, and change theory. She lives in Roswell, Georgia.