Linda Juszczak

Linda Juszczak is Executive

Director of the National Assembly on School Based Health Care (NASBHC) in

Washington D.C.  Prior to assuming this

position, she served as both the Interim Executive Director and Deputy Director

with responsibility for overseeing the organization’s programmatic work. She is

also responsible for all data, evaluation, and quality improvement work in the

organization. Her 35 years of professional experience include work as a nurse

practitioner and a director for hospital, community, and school-based programs

for adolescents. She has also held responsibilities as a faculty member and for

developing policies impacting adolescents and School Based Health Centers

(SBHC).

Dr. Juszczak received her undergraduate degree from Skidmore College, a

master’s degree in nursing at the University of Colorado, a Pediatric Nurse

Associate certificate and master’s in public health from the University of

Minnesota, and a doctorate in nursing from Yale University. She served as

Deputy Director of the School Health Policy Initiative at Montefiore Medical

Center and director of SBHCs at North Shore University Hospital in New York.

She was the founding president of the New York Coalition for School Based

Primary Care and is a founding member and past president of the NASBHC.  Linda’s faculty appointments have been at Yale

University, New York University, Cornell University and Albert Einstein College

of Medicine. Linda has published extensively on adolescent health and school

based health care. She continues to maintain a practice as a pediatric nurse

practitioner in adolescent medicine.