Dr. Liana Orsolini – Highway to Heart, Humor, and Honesty in Healthcare Interview

Dr. Liana Orsolini – Highway to Heart, Humor, and Honesty in Healthcare Interview

Liana Orsolini Ph.D., RN, ANEF, FAAN is a corrections nurse for a prison in the Virginia Department of Corrections, where she loves providing population health for the most vulnerable. Between 2013 and 2019 she was an executive for Bon Secours Health System, where she worked on a variety of population health initiatives to include Medicare’s Annual Wellness Visits, early identification and treatment of sepsis, and high reliability and harm prevention work. Prior to joining Bon Secours, she served as a 2011-2012 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Fellow in the Immediate Office of the Secretary of Health, Department of Health and Human Services where she advised Secretary Sebelius’s top health policy counselors. Dr. Orsolini served on the Institute of Medicine’s (IOM) Global Forum on Innovation in Health Professional Education and was a member of the IOM Committee on the Initiative on the Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health, which produced recommendations for an action-oriented blueprint for the future of nursing. She has cared for numerous patients and has taught hundreds of aspiring nurses in undergraduate nursing throughout her long career in nursing.

Dr. Orsolini received a Ph.D. and a Master of Science degree in nursing from the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). She received a B.S.N. from San Jose State. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing, the National League for Nursing’s Academy of Nursing Education and the New York Academy of Medicine.