Dr. Marilyn Chow is the vice president of National Patient Care Services, Program Office, at Kaiser Permanente. She is also the Program Director for the Robert Wood Johnson Executive Nurse Fellows Program.
She is recognized for her expertise in leadership, innovation, regulation of nursing practice, workforce policy, and primary care. Her career has focused on promoting the role of nurses in primary care, advanced practice, and hospital-based care. She has co-authored four books, including the award-winning Handbook of Pediatric Primary Care. She is the co-primary investigator for the national study, Women’s Honors in Public Health and the UCSF School of Nursing Distinguished Alumni Award. She was recently selected as one of the distinguished 100 graduates and faculty of the UCSF School of Nursing for the Centennial Wall of Fame.
Dr. Chow serves on a number of national board, including The Joint Commission At-Large Nursing Representative to the Board of Commissioners, the Joint Commission Resources Board, and the editorial advisory board of Nurses Week magazine. She chairs the Joint Commission Nursing Advisory Council, and is non-salaried, associate clinical professor at the University of California, San Francisco, Department of Community Health Systems. She served on the Institute of Medicine Committee in 2003 that produced the report, Keeping Patients Safe: Transforming the Work Environment of Nurses. She is a former member of the National Advisory Council on Nurse Education as well as the Division of Nursing in the Health Resources and Services Administration, Department of Health & Human Services. Dr. Chow is a fellow of the American Academy of Nursing.