Dr. Margaret Flinter is the Senior Vice President and Clinical Director of the Community Health Center, Inc. (CHCI). A family nurse practitioner since 1980, she has held progressive roles in the organization as both clinician and executive leader as it transformed from a storefront clinic to one of the country’s largest FQHCs. In 2005, she founded CHCI’s Weitzman Center, now the Weitzman Institute, as the research and development arm of CHCI and serves as Senior Faculty of the Institute. She is the co-Director of the federal National Technical Training and Assistance Project (NTTAP) on Clinical Workforce Development. Margaret has led the national development of a model of post-graduate residency training programs for new nurse practitioners committed to practice careers as primary care providers, particularly in safety net settings. She established and serves as Chair of the Board of the National Nurse Practitioner Residency and Fellowship Training Consortium. Along with Mark Masselli, President/CEO of CHCI, Margaret co-hosts a weekly radio show, “Conversations on Health Care, which connects people with issues of health policy, reform, and innovation.
Margaret received her BSN from the University of Connecticut, her MSN from Yale University, and her PhD at the University of Connecticut. She is a fellow of both the American Academy of Nursing and the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners. Margaret is a former National Health Service Corps Scholar and RWJ Executive Nurse Fellow.