Dr. Beverly Malone Ranked Among Modern Healthcare’s 100 Most Influential People in Health Care in 2025

Dr. Beverly Malone Ranked Among Modern Healthcare’s 100 Most Influential People in Health Care in 2025

National League for Nursing President & CEO Honored for Leadership & Impact Across the Profession

Washington, DC — Modern Healthcare, the leading mainstream publication in health care, has again named National League for Nursing President and CEO Beverly Malone, PhD, RN, FAAN, to the prestigious annual ranking of the 100 Most Influential People in Healthcare.

Since 2015, Dr. Malone has repeatedly been included in this elite yearly list of the 100 top figures in health care institutions, professional associations, policy circles, and government, business, and nonprofits, selected by the magazine’s senior editors in consultation with a panel of knowledgeable insiders. A competitive field of nominees is judged on qualities of leadership, contributions to the industry, and influence and impact in effecting positive, sustainable changes in public health, patient care, workplace culture, and health economics.

Among Dr. Malone’s notable achievements in the past year, the magazine recognized her vision in making artificial intelligence (AI) the centerpiece of the 2025 NLN Education Summit in Orlando, Florida. The conference theme, The Challenge: Unravelling the Mysteries of AI, addressed the growing role of AI in health care. Under her guidance and direction, the NLN also published a new Vision Statement on AI in Nursing Education, released at the start of the conference in September.

In addition, she was lauded for expanding professional development opportunities for nurse educators in the establishment of a new Assessment-Based Certificate Program, continuing to grow the NLN Consultant and Speakers Bureau to now include 40+ experts and thought leaders, and organizing and hosting the inaugural Utstein Global Conference for Expert Nurse Educators.

In congratulating Dr. Malone, NLN Chair Yolanda VanRiel, PhD, RN, MEDSURG-BC, OCN, CNE, ANEF, FAAN, chair of the Department of Nursing, North Carolina Central University and patient placement coordinator at First Health of the Carolinas-Moore Regional Hospital, said, “On behalf of the NLN Board of Governors, I applaud this well-deserved honor, reflective of Dr. Malone’s stature in nursing and nursing education, always striving and inspiring others to high levels of achievement. Her visionary leadership has captivated the spirit of transformative excellence that we aspire to bring to the preparation of clinicians capable of delivering outstanding patient care.”

Dr. Malone said, “This honor represents a recognition of the transformational work we strive to do at the National League for Nursing to benefit patients, their families, and communities worldwide throughout the year. I would not be in a position to lead without the extraordinary team beside me, including our volunteer leadership serving on the Board of Governors, the hundreds of nurse educators and scholars who contribute their time and expertise to numerous initiatives, and the professional staff at our headquarters in Washington, DC, and across the U.S. who all implement our programming and curate the resources so vitally needed to advance nursing education and thereby the health of the nation and global community.”

Dr. Malone’s bio can be found online. Her Modern Healthcare profile, along with the complete list of the 2025 100 Most Influential People in Healthcare, is also online and in the December issue of Modern Healthcare.

For more information about the National League for Nursing, visit NLN.org.

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