Dr. Bonnie Clipper, DNP, MA, MBA, RN, CENP, FACHE, FAAN

Dr. Bonnie Clipper is the top global nurse influencer on LinkedIn, a nurse futurist, a pioneer in virtual nursing, nationally recognized thought leader, and a global speaker. She brings her decades of executive leadership, operations, and knowledge of technology together to transform the national healthcare ecosystem. She was the inaugural VP of Innovation at the ANA where she built the innovation framework to bring over 4M nurses into the innovation space. Dr. Clipper is leading change and was an early adopter shaping how virtual nursing care is delivered in hospitals.

As CEO and Founder of Innovation Advantage, she created the Virtual Nursing Academy to bring virtual nursing to hospitals across the country. As a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Executive Nurse Fellow, she has published extensively on innovation in nursing including The Innovation Handbook: A Nurse Leader’s Guide for Transforming Nursing; The Nurse’s Guide to Innovation and The Innovation Roadmap: A Guide for Nurse Leaders.

She regularly shares her insights on technologies impacting nursing such as artificial intelligence, virtual reality, and robotics through webinars, speaking, and publications. Dr. Clipper is a member of the prestigious American Telemedicine Association Clinician Council and is a strategic advisor for several health-tech companies. Dr. Clipper is a sought-after connector, collaborator, and influencer in healthcare, and is a highly effective change agent and unifier. In short, Dr. Clipper has transformed the way hospital-based nursing care will be delivered and is creating a new standard of care.