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Linda Crew, M.B.A., R.N., Term: 2006–2010
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 Ms. Linda Crew is a nurse manager, community leader, researcher, advocate, public speaker, and person living with a chronic illness. Ms. Crew was diagnosed with systemic lupus erythematosus in 1996. She served as Director of the Joseph F. Sullivan Center, an academic nurse-managed health center at Clemson University, from 1994 to 2006.
Ms. Crew has significant leadership, community development, and project management experience. She has been the principal investigator or project director on numerous interdisciplinary grants to provide primary and preventive health care to medically underserved populations. She has presented at numerous professional conferences in the United States and abroad.
Under her leadership, the Sullivan Center expanded its community health care outreach program using a mobile health van and a team of medical professionals. The Center has received numerous awards for its work promoting minority health issues, improving the health status of minority populations, and eliminating health disparities. These awards include the South Carolina Office of Minority Health Access to Care Award, the South Carolina Rural Health Association Award of Merit for Excellence in Research, a State Health Plan Prevention Partners Award for Collaboration, the South Carolina Best Chance Network Provider Facility of the Year Award, and the South Carolina Migrant Health Innovative Programs Award.
Ms. Crew has served as a management consultant to BMW and the School of Nursing at Radford University. She was a semifinalist for the Robert Wood Johnson Executive Nurse Fellows Program in 2004. In 2002, she received the Excellence in Writing Award from the South Carolina Nurses Association and Arthur L. Davis Publishing Company.
Ms. Crew has worked closely with the Latino population in South Carolina since 1991. She created a culturally sensitive and linguistically appropriate campaign to increase awareness of breast cancer and the need for early detection.
In addition to Ms. Crew’s career in health care management, she worked at Michelin North America for eight years. As a group personnel and employee relations manager for diverse employee groups, she honed communication, leadership, and project management skills. Ms. Crew completed her undergraduate degree in nursing at Jacksonville State University. She earned an M.B.A. from Clemson University and is a graduate of the Johnson & Johnson/University of California, Los Angeles Health Care Executive Program, an intensive leadership program.
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