Linda Norlander
Linda Norlander is Project Director for the Minnesota Partnership to Improve End of Life Care. She completed her undergraduate and graduate work at the University of Minnesota in nursing and public health. She has held clinical and management positions in hospice and palliative care in a variety of health care organizations including North Memorial, Allina and HealthPartners. She recently worked as the Project Manager for the Allina End of Life Project. The project developed an advance care planning model called "The Kitchen Table Discussion." She also worked on a project to assess and intervene with patient suffering. She has presented regionally and nationally on the "Kitchen Table Discussion", patient suffering and hospice team work. In addition to co-authoring "Improving End of Life Care Within An Integrated Health Care System" for the Medical Journal of Allina, she co-wrote Hospice Care: A Physician’s Guide and Choosing Hospice: A Consumer’s Guide. In her free time, Linda writes humor and fiction.

Minnesota Partnership to Improve End of Life Care Partnership Director/Project Director
1600 University Avenue West Suite 300
St. Paul, MN 55104