Nora lynn b. Dwinell | va northern california health care | veterans affairs

feature-image

Play all audios:

Ms. Nora Lynn Dwinell was appointed VANCHCS Associate Director, East Bay Division, in August 2021. Ms. Dwinell began her Federal career in 1998 as a Public Health Analyst for the Department


of Health and Human Service’s Health Resources and Services Administration.  She administered grants for the Community and Migrant Health Center Programs and helped develop and implement the


Community Access Program.  She started working at the VA Palo Alto Health Care System (VAPAHCS) in 2003 as a Health System Specialist to the Chief of Staff and has progressively moved up


within VAPAHCS as the Staff Assistant to the Director, Director for Clinical Support, and East Bay Operations Manager.  As the East Bay Operations Manager, she provided oversight for


planning and directing administrative and clinical operations for all services and programs at the Livermore Division and Community Based Outpatient Clinics in Fremont, Modesto, Sonora, and


Stockton. Ms. Dwinell graduated from the University of California at Davis with a Bachelor of Science degree in Physiology and a minor in Japanese.  She earned a Master of Health Science


degree in Health Policy and Administration from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.  She is a graduate of the 2003 Veterans Integrated Service Network 21/22 Leadership


Development Institute, the 2009 Annenberg Leadership Institute, the 2011 Leadership VA, and 2017 Health Care Leadership Development Program.