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Brief Bio
Dr. Linda Paradiso is a three time CUNY graduate and proud alum. She has spent her entire nursing career in the public sector caring for people who are under-served, marginalized, and stigmatized. With over forty years of psychiatric nursing and leadership experience, Dr. Paradiso has been responsible for daily and strategic clinical operations for nursing departments in several NYC hospital systems. She is a board-certified nurse executive, at the advanced level, with a solid record of achievement. She has maintained cohesive and collaborative inter-disciplinary relationships while ensuring a Just Culture in every organization. She is the recipient of the 2017 DNP Advocacy Award – Old Dominion University and the 2008 Outstanding Contribution to Professional Nursing Award – Sigma Theta Tau International, Mu Upsilon Chapter. Dr. Paradiso transitioned from hospital leadership to a faculty position in 2015.
When considering faculty positions, Dr. Paradiso knew that the CUNY mission and vision of providing education were closest to her own priorities of public service within diverse communities. She began her academic career at New York City College of Technology where she taught pre-licensure psychiatric mental health nursing in the associate degree program and nursing leadership in the RN to BS program. After five years she transferred to CUNY School of Professional Studies (SPS), a fully online senior college, where she teaches in the graduate program and is the Nursing Organizational Leadership Graduate Program Coordinator. In addition to working full-time as an Assistant Professor at CUNY SPS, Dr. Paradiso is a regulatory consultant for several New York City hospitals. Research interests include Just Culture, patient safety, speaking up, developing trust, and the importance of self-care. She has presented nationally and published articles related to Just Culture, performance improvement, and psychiatric nursing. She is a member of the American Organization for Nursing Leadership, American Psychiatric Nurses Association, Sigma Theta Tau International, and other professional organizations. As a volunteer, Dr. Paradiso is a Board Member for the American Psychiatric Nurses Association New York Chapter and a member of the Vibrant Behavioral Health Disaster and Crisis Response Advisory Committee. She is proud to be a nurse, an Inclusion Ally, and to use her voice to speak-up at every opportunity.
Personally, Dr. Paradiso embraces life-long learning. She is an avid listener of podcasts and audiobooks especially historical fiction and anything authored by Malcolm Gladwell. She loves walking and hiking, cooking, playing very bad golf, and attending all kinds of theater. She identifies as female (she/her), is married, and is a proud parent of two adult children and a rescue Chihuahua.
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