About Linda

About Linda Garvin

Service through personal experience:

Linda Winkler Garvin is the principal of Patient Advocate Bay Area, Inc. She has more than 30 years of health care experience.

Through her private health advocacy practice, Linda assists individuals in navigating the complexities of their health problems. From developing a treatment plan, to building a medical team, helping you manage chronic and autoimmune diseases, long term care planning and helping you chart a path toward wellness. Linda is available to help you weather whatever health challenges you encounter.

Linda is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts where she earned her MSN degree in Nursing and her Adult Nurse Practitioner training with honors. This specialized education and training helped her to understand the medical complexities of middle aged and older adults. This training also included an opportunity of evaluating patients in both a home and a clinical setting.

Linda Garvin, MSN

Patient Advocate

Clients have described Linda as a person who has a high level of kindheartedness, diligence and resourcefulness with individuals and families.

Specific health-related credentials include:

Linda is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts where she earned her MSN degree in Nursing. Linda does not work as a registered nurse.
Public Health Certificate in California
Past experience as an Administrative Nurse and Assistant Professor at the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center (UCSF)
Thirteen years of clinical nursing experience at institutions such as Stanford Medical Center and Massachusetts General Hospital

Linda's memberships include:

Greater National Advocates
NAHAC - the National Association of Healthcare Advocacy Consultants
Bay Area Health Care Advocates

What made you want to be a patient advocate?

I enjoyed problem solving and medical coloration and felt I could work with many health professional in complex healthcare situations, as well as assisting and guiding individuals who are often ignored by our health care system. My precious background of nursing, case management and teaching work, dovetailed nicely into starting a patient advocacy business.