Kathleen Ladner joined the U.S. Navy in 1968 to become a nurse. She remained a Navy nurse until 1973, serving in all leadership capacities from charge nurse, nurse manager, nurse director and retiring with the rank of commander. Dr. Ladner currently serves as vice president of patient care services at Baptist Princeton in Birmingham. She began her leadership within the Baptist Health System at Baptist Princeton Hospital as vice president of patient care services in 1991 and in 1994 was asked to serve as senior vice president of patient care services at both Baptist Princeton and Baptist Montclair hospitals.
In 1998, as the two hospitals were re-organized to return to separate management staffs, Dr. Ladner retained her Baptist Princeton responsibilities and also served as the head of the Baptist Health System’s Patient Care Council, the advisory council composed of vice presidents of patient care services from all 10 of the Baptist Health System’s hospitals. In addition, she leads the Baptist Princeton recruitment and retention collaboration of nursing, radiology technologists, and pharmacists.
Prior to her tenure within the Baptist Health System, Dr. Ladner served as administrative director of clinical nursing at the Mobile Infirmary Medical Center and as administrative director and director of education and research at AMI/Brookwood in Birmingham.
She served on the Alabama Board of Nursing from 1990 to 1993. She has held faculty appointments in nursing at Samford University, The University of Alabama, and University of South Alabama. She is a Fellow from the Johnson and Johnson Nursing Leadership Program at the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School. Dr. Ladner received her B.S.N. from Barry University, her M.S.N. and PNP from The University of Alabama at Birmingham, and her Ph.D. from The University of Alabama. A member of Sigma Theta Tau, the International Honor Society of Nursing, she has received many other honors and awards, including the Janet S. Awtrey Distinguished Nursing Leader Award from the University of Alabama Capstone College of Nursing. Her acute understanding of the health care and academic environments, coupled with her vision, initiative, and passion for nursing, has resulted in her making a significant impact on nursing in Alabama.
from http://nursing.ua.edu/hof/kathleen_ladner.htm
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