Pat Ford-Roegner, MSW, RN, FAAN, Senior Health Policy Director

Pat Ford-Roegner recently stepped down as CEO of the American Academy of Nursing. She has more than 30 years experience in national health policy and governmental affairs.

Pat combines her clinical nursing experiences with community organizing training to advocate for common sense health care. Pat joined AAN from the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), where she was Executive Director. She was credited with pumping new life into AIMBE’s membership service programs and, particularly, its public policy initiatives. She was a founding member of the National Health Policy Council, a non-profit group that hosted presidential candidate forums on health care in the 1980s and 1990s. Pat is co-founder of the Nightingale Policy Group, which promotes nursing's expertise on a wide range of health issues and has a major goal of putting a human face on the health care debate. Pat’s career included service as Atlanta regional director for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services from 1993 to 1999. Prior to that she held a White House appointment co-leading the Health Professionals Council working on health care reform.

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