Statewide Family Leader
Florida Department of Health Office of Children's Medical Services Care Plan and Specialty Programs - Title V CYSHCN Program
Tallahassee, Florida
Linda Starnes has spent her life actively involved in the disability community as a special educator, parent, speaker, and advocate. After working in special education and at the U.S. Departments of Justice and Education, she began her most important role: Mother of two with varying abilities and very different, rare, complex medical conditions. Linda managed years of 24-hour home nursing, worked with physicians and therapists in 15 medical specialties, and oversaw over 40 hospitalizations or surgeries for her children. She has served on numerous boards of disability, healthcare, and educational institutions, and presents at conferences each year. Linda is the Statewide Family Leader for the Florida Department of Health Office of Children's Medical Services Care Plan and Specialty Programs -Title V CYSHCN Program, and is their Family Delegate to AMCHP. She’s part of AMCHP’s Leadership Lab, serves on a hospital team with the National Care Coordination Academy, is an advisory member for UM-Miller School of Medicine's Mailman Center for Child Development, Board of Directors for Disability Rights Florida, and advises on a large multi-site PCORI-funded study on healthcare transition.
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Thursday, May 26, 2022
12:00 PM – 1:10 PM ET
Thursday, May 26, 2022
2:15 PM – 3:25 PM ET