Join this Veterans Day Town Hall with the Honorable Linda Spoonster Schwartz, Assistant Secretary of Veterans Affairs.
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Linda Spoonster Schwartz is the assistant secretary of Veterans Affairs. In her role, Schwartz helps develop and review VA departmental policy, analyzes VA trends and statistics, and evaluates VA transformation initiatives.
She is an associate clinical professor at the Yale School of Nursing, has held leadership roles in nursing organizations in Connecticut, and has served as Connecticut Veterans Commissioner.
She served in the U.S. Air Force Nurse Corps from 1968 to 1986, both on active duty and as a reservist. From 1979 to 1980, she was a caseworker in the Office of the Field Director of the American Red Cross at Rhein-Main Air Base in Germany. She retired as a flight nurse instructor with the rank of major, after sustaining injuries in an Air Force air craft accident.
Schwartz has served as a subject matter expert to the U.S. Secretary of Veterans Affairs on readjustment of combat veterans, women veterans, homelessness and mental health care.
In 2013, she was nominated by President Barack Obama and unanimously confirmed by the U.S. Senate as Assistant Secretary of Veterans Affairs for Policy and Planning.
In 2019, she was honored by the American Academy of Nursing as a “Living Legend” for her lifetime dedication to “healing the wounds of war.”
This town hall is hosted by the UCSF School of Nursing and is open to the UCSF and UCSF Health community. All attendees are welcome.