Dr. Kathleen Burns is the Senior Director of Nursing Education and Professional Development at Cleveland Clinic in Ohio. She has been a nurse for 28 years, became a Clinical Nurse Specialist in 2012, and earned her DNP in 2015. Dr. Burns developed and led the Primary Stroke Center Program at Cleveland Clinic Medina Hospital from 2011-2017, a program that has earned the American Heart/American Stroke Association Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award for the last 4 years.