Marla E. Salmon, Sc.D., R.N., F.A.A.N., was elected to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Board of Trustees in January 2002.

Salmon is dean of the School of Nursing at the University of Washington. Previously, she was dean and professor of the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, founding director of the Lillian Carter Center for International Nursing and professor at the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University, Atlanta, Ga. Salmon also served as professor and graduate dean of the School of Nursing at the University of Pennsylvania, having also held academic leadership positions at the University of North Carolina and the University of Minnesota.

Salmon has served in significant leadership roles on national and international levels. She is former director of the Division of Nursing for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. She served as chair of the National Advisory Committee on Nursing Education and Practice and was a member of the White House Task Force on Health Care Reform. She is former chair of the World Health Organization’s Global Advisory Group on Nursing and Midwifery, and served on the national advisory committee for the Robert Wood Johnson Executive Nurse Fellows Program.

Salmon is a member of the board of directors for the National Council on Healthcare Leadership, a member of the Nursing Advisory Council of the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, and a member of the Institute of Medicine and the American Academy of Nursing.

She has received numerous honors and recognition for her leadership in both public health and nursing and has published extensively in health-related journals.

Salmon received an Sc.D. from Johns Hopkins University. She earned an M.S.N., B.S.N. and B.A. from the University of Portland, Oregon.

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• Board of Trustees