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Anne L. Porter, PhD, RN, CNAA

Anne L. Porter, PhD, RN, CNAA, is associate vice president of Quality and Patient Safety, Loyola University Health System. She provides quality improvement leadership and consultation throughout the health-care system, including adoption of best practices, performance improvement initiatives, quality monitoring and improvement processes, accreditation issues and fostering an environment for innovation.

Porter is an adjunct faculty member in the health systems management program in the Niehoff School of Nursing, Loyola University Chicago. Porter teaches outcomes performance management courses for graduate nursing students and is co-principal investigator of the Advanced Practice Nursing: Health Systems Management grant funded by the Health Resources and Services Administration.

Previously Porter was the corporate director of clinical integration at Mercy Health Services, Farmington Hills, Mich. Prior positions include associate chairman for education and research, Evanston Hospital Corporation, Evanston, Ill.; assistant dean, College of Nursing, University of Illinois at Chicago; and other positions in nursing education and clinical services.

Porter received her bachelor of science degree from the College of St. Teresa, Winona, Minn., master of science in nursing from Loyola University Chicago and doctoral degree from Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill. She is a fellow in the Wharton Program for Nurse Executives. Porter is certified in advanced nursing administration by the American Nurses Credentialing Center.

To arrange an interview with Porter, please contact Loyola Media Relations, (708) 216-8232.

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