
Linda Franck, RN, PhD, FAAN
Dr. Franck has joined ACTIONS Founding Director, Dr. Monica McLemore, as Co-Director for the program. Dr. Franck holds the Jack and Elaine Koehn Endowed Chair in Pediatric Nursing at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) School of Nursing. She has extensive clinical, research, and academic mentorship experience in maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health care, with a particular emphasis on improving patient and family partnered healthcare delivery and research. From 2015-2020 she served as Co-Principal Investigator (2015-2019) and Director of Postnatal Research for the UCSF Preterm Birth Initiative (2015-2020). In 2020, she was inducted into the Sigma Nursing Researcher Hall of Fame and named the UCSF School of Nursing Research Mentor of the Year.