Marla Weston Ph.D

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Biography

Dr. Marla Weston serves as General Partner at Nurse Capital. She served as Chief Executive Officer at The American Nurses Association. Since becoming CEO in 2009, she has initiated programs to make vital nursing data available to scientists to build a compelling picture of nursing's impact on quality and safety outcomes and to influence national health policy. To ensure a strong national voice for nursing, she has helped forge partnerships among nursing groups and fostered effective working relationships between the Nursing Alliance for Quality Care, the American Academy of Nursing's Expert Panel on Quality, and other groups working on national initiatives central to nursing, including care coordination, performance measurement, and patient- centered care. As a committed and influential leader for nursing, she is not only helping to prepare and position nurses to improve the quality of health care in the United States, she is also making sure that policy makers understand and recognize the important contribution nurses make to quality health care.