Join a Veterans Day Town Hall with the Honorable Linda Spoonster Schwartz, who has served as Assistant Secretary of Veterans Affairs, for a talk titled “Have You Ever Served?”

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. 

Register to instantly receive an automated email with the Zoom link: https://ucsf.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_i7byQgNMSGScfvYEiiocfg

About Linda Spoonster Schwartz

Linda Spoonster Schwartz is the senior advisor to the national president of Vietnam Veterans of America and chair of the Steering Committee for VA's National Vietnam Veterans Mortality Study.

She served in the U.S. Air Force Nurse Corps from 1968 to 1986, both on active duty and as a reservist. In 1986, she retired as a flight nurse instructor with the rank of Major, after sustaining injuries in an Air Force air craft accident.

She is an associate clinical professor at the Yale School of Nursing, has held leadership roles in nursing organizations in Connecticut, and was appointed Connecticut Commissioner of Veterans Affairs by three governors.

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 that role, Schwartz helped develop policy, analyze trends and statistics, and maintained data streams.

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.”