Linda Groah, MSN, RN, CNOR, NEA-BC, FAAN, has been the CEO/executive director of AORN since March 2007. A veteran perioperative nursing executive, Linda has devoted her career to perioperative nursing practice, education, and executive management. Her previous professional positions include international healthcare consultation, chief operating officer of Kaiser Foundation Hospital in San Francisco, CA, nurse executive for Kaiser Foundation Hospital-San Francisco and Kaiser Foundation Hospital-South San Francisco, CA; director of nursing OR-PACU-Surgery Center at the University of California San Francisco Hospitals and Clinics; and OR director at the Medical Center of Central Georgia in Macon, GA. Awarded AORN’s Award for Excellence in Perioperative Nursing in 1989, Linda was inducted in 2000 as a fellow of the American Academy of Nursing. In 2005, she received Nursing Spectrum magazine’s California and US Nursing Excellence Award for Leadership. In 2006, she was named one of San Francisco’s 100 most influential women in business. In 2012, Becker’s named Linda as one of the Ten Leaders in Clinical Quality and, in 2013, Beckers named her among the Top 50 Experts Leading the Field of Patient Safety.
Selected publications from PubMed
The AORN Community Displays its Resiliency Amidst Pandemic Crisis.
Groah LK
AORN J. 2020 Jun;111(6):585-587 doi: 10.1002/aorn.13062.
The SAGES Fundamental Use of Surgical Energy program (FUSE): history, development, and purpose.
Fuchshuber P, Schwaitzberg S, Jones D, Jones SB, Feldman L, Munro M, Robinson T, Purcell-Jackson G, Mikami D, Madani A, Brunt M, Dunkin B, Gugliemi C, Groah L, Lim R, Mischna J, Voyles CR
Surg Endosc. 2018 Jun;32(6):2583-2602 doi: 10.1007/s00464-017-5933-y.
Effectively Processing Flexible Endoscopes.
Guglielmi CL, Goldberg JL, Murphy EK, Spry C, Martinez D, Fawcett D, Groah L
AORN J. 2016 Nov;104(5):440-447 doi: 10.1016/j.aorn.2016.09.014.
The Difficulty With Implementing a Policy on Surgical Attire.
Guglielmi CL, DiTullio BL, Kirchner BA, Halverson A, Beers RA, Everson C, Hohenberger H, Groah L
AORN J. 2016 Mar;103(3):319-28 doi: 10.1016/j.aorn.2016.01.010.
New strategies to assert the value of the perioperative nurse.
Guglielmi CL, Duffy WJ, Murphy EK, Windle PE, Crosson J, Lara G, Seifert PC, Wright AJ, Groah LK
AORN J. 2015 Mar;101(3):359-69 doi: 10.1016/j.aorn.2015.01.019.
The finale 2024 monthly diversity, equity, and inclusion program features global healthcare leaders addressing this year's theme of patient-centric DEI initiatives. These internationally renowned experts from North and South America, Africa, and Asia describe programs which they have created to ensure access to equitable care for all patients. Their perspectives include University, Society, Hospital, Organizational, and Corporate initiatives which they have introduced and developed. The esteemed DEI champion faculty will outline how others in a myriad of environments can create and sustain similar programs. Participants from around the world will derive significant immediately implementable solutions which they can lead to help optimize outcomes for patients around the world.
With AORN
Published
Dec 2023
This program is the finale of the 2022 monthly series of diversity, equity, and inclusion sessions. This broadcast includes healthcare leaders from North and South America and Africa who will present their successful practical strategies for ensuring implementation and maintenance of organizational and institutional DEI integration. The experiences of these leaders from renowned health care organizations around the world will include a robust discussion of specifics which can be brought to every group. The wisdom of this esteemed faculty will be an information-packed episode with lively international interaction among the faculty and the worldwide audience.
With Cleveland Clinic
Published
Dec 2022
Dr. Alberto Ferreres, Mr. Aldo Denti, Dr. David Hoyt, Dr. Joseph Bosco, Dr. Julie Freischlag, Ms. Linda Groah, Dr. Patricia Turner, Dr. Scott Levin and Dr. Steven Wexner present the "Successful Leadership during COVID-19 Phase 2" event.
With Johnson & Johnson MedTech
Published
Jan 2021
PROGRAM: Welcome & Introduction by Dr. Manish Chand. What drove the CMS/ACS/AORN/AHA/Am Society of Anesthesiologists Guidelines being established? Open Discussion. Dr. Steven Wexner and Dr. Linda Groah. European team perspective on guidelines/protocols/process to reinstate elective surgeries.Round Table. Dr. Jean-Blaise Wasserfallen & Team. Core Team:Dr. Dieter Hahnloser, Department of SurgeryDr. Patrick Schoettker, Department of AnesthesiologyMs. Patricia Neves-De-Oliveira-Dias, Deparment of Nursing American team perspective on guidelines/protocols/process to reinstate elective surgeries.Round Table. Dr. Marc Boom,CEO of the Houston Methodist Hospital Core Team:Dr. Osama Gaber, M.D., Interim Chair, Department of SurgeryDr. Robert A. Phillips, M.D., Ph.D., Executive Vice President and Chief MedicalMs. Roberta A. Schwartz, Executive Vice President and Chief Innovation Officer The role will industry play to ensure the resuming elective surgeries.Ms. Ashley McEvoy. Panel Discussion.All faculty. Moderator: Dr. Manish Chand. Closing Remarks.Dr. Manish Chand. FACULTY(by alphabetical order) Dr. Marc Boom,CEO of the Houston Methodist HospitalDr. Manish Chand,Consultant Colorectal & Endometriosis Surgeon, University College LondonDr. Linda Groah,CEO of AORNMs. Ashley McEvoy,Executive Vice President - Worldwide Chairman and Medical Devices at Johnson & Johnson.Mr. Rod Menchaca,CEO of Advances in SurgeryDr. Jean-Blaise Wasserfallen, Vice-medical director of University Hospital Lausanne, SwitzerlandDr. Steven Wexner,Cleveland Clinic Florida, Director of the Digestive Disease Center.
With Johnson & Johnson MedTech
Published
May 2020
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