Dr. Linda Phillips is Professor and Audrienne H. Moseley Endowed Chair in Nursing, University of California at Los Angeles. She was formerly Professor of Nursing, Associate Dean of Research for the College of Nursing and Co-Director, Arizona Center on Aging at the University of Arizona, Tucson. She received her master's degree from the University of Pittsburgh and her doctoral degree from the University of Arizona in 1980. Dr. Phillips has written about and conducted research on aging and taught courses in nursing and gerontology since 1982. Her research, which focuses on elder abuse, family caregiving for frail elders, and nursing interventions for frail elders with dementia, has been funded by the National Institute of Nursing Research, the National Institute of Aging and the Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders Association. In the past years, she has been an invited member of a number of federal expert panels on aging including: the National Institute of Nursing Research Expert Panel on Long-term Care, the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research Panel on Dementia Screening, and the Agency for Health Care Research and Quality Panel on Community-based Long term Care. She is a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing and the Gerontological Society of America as well as a Distinguished Practitioner in the National Academies of Practice.
